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4081-4105

  • Come into the river (of reality), dash the pitcher (of phenomenal form) against the stone, set fire to (mere) scent and colour.
  • اندر آ در جو سبو بر سنگ زن  ** آتش اندر بو و اندر رنگ زن 
  • If thou art not one of the brigands on the Way of the Religion, do not be addicted, like women, to colour and scent.
  • گر نه‌ای در راه دین از ره‌زنان  ** رنگ و بو مپرست مانند زنان 
  • Those princes cast down their heads, craving with (all) their soul to be excused for that (act of) forgetfulness.
  • سر فرود انداختند آن مهتران  ** عذرجویان گشه زان نسیان به جان 
  • At that moment from the heart of each one (of them) two hundred sighs were going (up), like a (great) smoke, to heaven.
  • از دل هر یک دو صد آه آن زمان  ** هم‌چو دودی می‌شدی تا آسمان 
  • The King made a sign to the ancient executioner, as though to say, "Remove these vile wretches from my seat of honour. 4085
  • کرد اشارت شه به جلاد کهن  ** که ز صدرم این خسان را دور کن 
  • How are these vile wretches worthy of my seat of honour, when they break my command for the sake of a stone?
  • این خسان چه لایق صدر من‌اند  ** کز پی سنگ امر ما را بشکنند 
  • For the sake of a coloured stone my command is held contemptible and cheap by evil-doers like these.”
  • امر ما پیش چنین اهل فساد  ** بهر رنگین سنگ شد خوار و کساد 
  • How the King was about to kill the Amirs, and how Ayáz made intercession before the royal throne, saying, “‘Tis better to forgive.”
  • قصد شاه به کشتن امرا و شفاعت کردن ایاز پیش تخت سلطان کی ای شاه عالم العفو اولی 
  • Then Ayáz, who was abounding in love, sprang up and ran to the throne of that mighty Sultan.
  • پس ایاز مهرافزا بر جهید  ** پیش تخت آن الغ سلطان دوید 
  • He made a prostration and spoke with bated breath, saying, "O Emperor at whom the celestial sphere is astounded,
  • سجده‌ای کرد و گلوی خود گرفت  ** کای قبادی کز تو چرخ آرد شگفت 
  • O Humá from whom (all) humá’s have (their) auspiciousness, and every man (his) generosity, 4090
  • ای همایی که همایان فرخی  ** از تو دارند و سخاوت هر سخی 
  • O Noble One before whose self-sacrifice (all) acts of nobility in the world are hidden (eclipsed) and disappear,
  • ای کریمی که کرمهای جهان  ** محو گردد پیش ایثارت نهان 
  • O Lovely One whom the red rose beheld and tore its shirt in shame,
  • ای لطیفی که گل سرخت بدید  ** از خجالت پیرهن را بر درید 
  • Forgiveness (itself) is fully content with thy forgivingness: because of thy pardon the foxes prevail over the lion.
  • از غفوری تو غفران چشم‌سیر  ** روبهان بر شیر از عفو تو چیر 
  • Whosoever treats thy command with insolence, whom should he have to support him except thy pardon?
  • جز که عفو تو کرا دارد سند  ** هر که با امر تو بی‌باکی کند 
  • The heedlessness and irreverence of these sinners arise from the abundance of thy pardon (clemency), O mine of pardon." 4095
  • غفلت و گستاخی این مجرمان  ** از وفور عفو تست ای عفولان 
  • Heedlessness always grows up from irreverence, for (only) reverence will remove the inflammation from the eye .
  • دایما غفلت ز گستاخی دمد  ** که برد تعظیم از دیده رمد 
  • The heedlessness and wicked forgetfulness (which) he (the sinner) has learned will be consumed by the fire of reverence.
  • غفلت و نسیان بد آموخته  ** ز آتش تعظیم گردد سوخته 
  • Awe (of God) will bestow on him wakefulness and keen wittedness: negligence and forgetfulness will leap forth from his heart.
  • هیبتش بیداری و فطنت دهد  ** سهو نسیان از دلش بیرون جهد 
  • Folk do not fall asleep at the time of a raid, lest any one should carry off his (the sleeper’s) cloak.
  • وقت غارت خواب ناید خلق را  ** تا بنرباید کسی زو دلق را 
  • Since sleep is banished by fear for one’s cloak, how should the sleep of forgetfulness be (possible when accompanied) with fear for one’s throat? 4100
  • خواب چون در می‌رمد از بیم دلق  ** خواب نسیان کی بود با بیم حلق 
  • (The text) do not punish (us) if we forget is evidence that forgetfulness too, in a certain way, is sinful,
  • لاتاخذ ان نسینا شد گواه  ** که بود نسیان بوجهی هم گناه 
  • Because he (who was forgetful) did not attain to complete reverence, or else forgetfulness would not have assailed him
  • زانک استکمال تعظیم او نکرد  ** ورنه نسیان در نیاوردی نبرد 
  • Although (his) forgetfulness was necessary and inevitable, (yet) he was a free agent in employing the means (by which it was produced);
  • گرچه نسیان لابد و ناچار بود  ** در سبب ورزیدن او مختار بود 
  • For he showed remissness in his  feelings of reverence, so that forgetfulness was born or negligence and trespass.
  • که تهاون کرد در تعظیمها  ** تا که نسیان زاد یا سهو و خطا 
  • (‘Tis) like (the case of) the drunken man who commits sins and says, “I was excused from (responsibility for) myself” 4105
  • هم‌چو مستی کو جنایتها کند  ** گوید او معذور بودم من ز خود