Feels grief on account of departure and death, but (only) grieves because of having failed (in good works) and missed his opportunities.605
نبود او را حسرت نقلان و موت ** لیک باشد حسرت تقصیر و فوت
In sooth every one that dies wishes that the departure to his destination had been earlier:
هر که میرد خود تمنی باشدش ** که بدی زین پیش نقل مقصدش
If he be wicked, in order that his wickedness might have been less; and if devout, in order that he might have come home sooner.
گر بود بد تا بدی کمتر بدی ** ور تقی تا خانه زوتر آمدی
The wicked man says, ‘I have been heedless, moment by moment I have been adding to the veil (of sin).
گوید آن بد بیخبر میبودهام ** دم به دم من پرده میافزودهام
If my passing (from the world) had taken place sooner, this screen and veil of mine would have been less.’
گر ازین زودتر مرا معبر بدی ** این حجاب و پردهام کمتر بدی
Do not in covetousness rend the face of contentment, and do not in pride rend the visage of humility.610
از حریصی کم دران روی قنوع ** وز تکبر کم دران چهرهی خشوع
Likewise do not in avarice rend the face of munificence, and in devilishness the beauteous countenance of worship.
همچنین از بخل کم در روی جود ** وز بلیسی چهرهی خوب سجود
Do not tear out those feathers which are an ornament to Paradise: do not tear out those feathers which (enable thee to) traverse the Way.”
بر مکن آن پر خلد آرای را ** بر مکن آن پر رهپیمای را
When he (the peacock) heard this counsel, he looked at him (the Sage) and, after that, began to lament and weep.
چون شنید این پند در وی بنگریست ** بعد از آن در نوحه آمد میگریست
The long lamentation and weeping of the sorrowful (peacock) caused every one who was there to fall a-weeping;
نوحه و گریهی دراز دردمند ** هر که آنجا بود بر گریهش فکند
And he who was asking the reason of (the peacock's) tearing out his feathers, (he too being left) without an answer repented (of having asked) and wept,615
وآنک میپرسید پر کندن ز چیست ** بیجوابی شد پشیمان میگریست
Saying, “Why did I impertinently ask him (that question)? He was full of grief: I made him distraught.”
کز فضولی من چرا پرسیدمش ** او ز غم پر بود شورانیدمش
From his (the peacock's) moist eyes the water (of tears) was trickling to the earth: in every drop were contained a hundred answers.
میچکید از چشم تر بر خاک آب ** اندر آن هر قطره مدرج صد جواب
Sincere weeping touches the souls (of all), so that it makes (even) the sky and heaven to weep.
گریهی با صدق بر جانها زند ** تا که چرخ و عرش را گریان کند
Without any doubt, intellects and hearts (spirits) are celestial, (though) they live debarred from the celestial light.
عقل و دلها بیگمان عرشیاند ** در حجاب از نور عرشی میزیند
Explaining that the intellect and spirit are imprisoned in clay, like Hárút and Márút in the pit of Babylon.
در بیان آنک عقل و روح در آب و گل محبوساند همچون هاروت و ماروت در چاه بابل
Like Hárút and Márút, those two pure ones (the intellect and spirit) have been confined here (in this world) in a horrible pit.620
همچو هاروت و چو ماروت آن دو پاک ** بستهاند اینجا به چاه سهمناک
They are in the low and sensual world: they have been confined in this pit on account of sin.
عالم سفلی و شهوانی درند ** اندرین چه گشتهاند از جرمبند
The good and the evil (alike) learn magic and the opposite of magic from these twain involuntarily;
سحر و ضد سحر را بیاختیار ** زین دو آموزند نیکان و شرار
But first they admonish him, saying, “Beware, do not learn and pick up magic from us:
لیک اول پند بدهندش که هین ** سحر را از ما میاموز و مچین
We teach this magic, O such and such, for the purpose of trial and probation;
ما بیاموزیم این سحر ای فلان ** از برای ابتلا و امتحان
(But thou art free to choose), for probation necessarily involves free-will, and thou canst not have any (effective) free-will without the power (of action).”625
که امتحان را شرط باشد اختیار ** اختیاری نبودت بیاقتدار
Desires are like sleeping dogs: good and evil are hidden in them.
میلها همچون سگان خفتهاند ** اندریشان خیر و شر بنهفتهاند
When there is no power (of action), this troop (of desires) are asleep and silent like faggots (smouldering in the fire),
چونک قدرت نیست خفتند این رده ** همچو هیزمپارهها و تنزده
Until (when) a carcase comes into view, the blast of the trumpet of greed strikes on (suddenly rouses) the dogs.
تا که مرداری در آید در میان ** نفخ صور حرص کوبد بر سگان
When the carcase of a donkey appears in the parish, a hundred sleeping dogs are awakened by it.
چون در آن کوچه خری مردار شد ** صد سگ خفته بدان بیدار شد