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  • The roses remain not; (only) the black thorns remain: it becomes pale and pithless like a heap of straw.
  • گل نماند خارها ماند سیاه  ** زرد و بی‌مغز آمده چون تل کاه 

  • O God, I wonder what fault did that orchard commit, that these (beautiful) robes should be stripped from it.
  • تا چه زلت کرد آن باغ ای خدا  ** که ازو این حله‌ها گردد جدا 

  • “It paid regard to itself, and self-regard is a deadly poison. Beware, O thou who art put to the trial!” 980
  • خویشتن را دید و دید خویشتن  ** زهر قتالست هین ای ممتحن 

  • The minion for love of whom the world wept—the world (now) is repulsing him from itself: what is (his) crime?
  • شاهدی کز عشق او عالم گریست  ** عالمش می‌راند از خود جرم چیست 

  • “The crime is that he put on a borrowed adornment and pretended that these robes were his own property.
  • جرم آنک زیور عاریه بست  ** کرد دعوی کین حلل ملک منست 

  • We take them back, in order that he may know for sure that the stack is Ours and the fair ones are (only) gleaners;
  • واستانیم آن که تا داند یقین  ** خرمن آن ماست خوبان دانه‌چین 

  • That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”
  • تا بداند کان حلل عاریه بود  ** پرتوی بود آن ز خورشید وجود 

  • (All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence. 985
  • آن جمال و قدرت و فضل و هنر  ** ز آفتاب حسن کرد این سو سفر 

  • They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.
  • باز می‌گردند چون استارها  ** نور آن خورشید ازین دیوارها 

  • (When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.
  • پرتو خورشید شد وا جایگاه  ** ماند هر دیوار تاریک و سیاه 

  • That which made thee amazed at the faces of the fair is the Light of the Sun (reflected) from the three-coloured glass.
  • آنک کرد او در رخ خوبانت دنگ  ** نور خورشیدست از شیشه‌ی سه رنگ 

  • The glasses of diverse hue cause that Light to seem coloured like this to us.
  • شیشه‌های رنگ رنگ آن نور را  ** می‌نمایند این چنین رنگین بما 

  • When the many-coloured glasses are no more, then the colourless Light makes thee amazed. 990
  • چون نماند شیشه‌های رنگ‌رنگ  ** نور بی‌رنگت کند آنگاه دنگ 

  • Make it thy habit to behold the Light without the glass, in order that when the glass is shattered there may not be blindness (in thee).
  • خوی کن بی‌شیشه دیدن نور را  ** تا چو شیشه بشکند نبود عمی 

  • Thou art content with knowledge learned (from others): thou hast lit thine eye at another's lamp.
  • قانعی با دانش آموخته  ** در چراغ غیر چشم افروخته 

  • He takes away his lamp, that thou mayst know thou art a borrower, not a giver.
  • او چراغ خویش برباید که تا  ** تو بدانی مستعیری نی‌فتا 

  • If thou hast rendered thanks (to God for what thou hast received) and made the utmost exertion (in doing so), be not grieved (at its loss), for He will give (thee) a hundred such (gifts) in return;
  • گر تو کردی شکر و سعی مجتهد  ** غم مخور که صد چنان بازت دهد 

  • But if thou hast not rendered thanks, weep (tears of) blood now, for that (spiritual) excellence has become quit of (has abandoned) the ungrateful. 995
  • ور نکردی شکر اکنون خون گری  ** که شدست آن حسن از کافر بری 

  • He (God) causeth the works of the unbelieving people to be lost; He maketh the state of the believing people to prosper.
  • امة الکفران اضل اعمالهم  ** امة الایمان اصلح بالهم 

  • From the ungrateful man (his) excellence and knowledge disappear, so that never again does he see a trace of them.
  • گم شد از بی‌شکر خوبی و هنر  ** که دگر هرگز نبیند زان اثر 

  • (His feelings of) affinity and non-affinity and gratitude and affection vanish in such wise that he cannot remember them;
  • خویشی و بی‌خویشی و سکر وداد  ** رفت زان سان که نیاردشان به یاد 

  • For, O ingrates, (the words) He causeth their works to be lost are (signify) the flight of (every) object of desire from every one who has obtained his desire (in this world),
  • که اضل اعمالهم ای کافران  ** جستن کامست از هر کام‌ران 

  • Excepting the thankful and faithful who are attended by fortune. 1000
  • جز ز اهل شکر و اصحاب وفا  ** که مریشان راست دولت در قفا 

  • How should the past fortune bestow strength (on its possessors)? ’Tis the future fortune that bestows a special virtue.
  • دولت رفته کجا قوت دهد  ** دولت آینده خاصیت دهد 

  • In (obedience to the Divine command) “Lend,” make a loan (to God) from this (worldly) fortune, that thou mayst see a hundred fortunes before thy face.
  • قرض ده زین دولت اندر اقرضوا  ** تا که صد دولت ببینی پیش رو