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
Diminish a little for thine own sake this (eating and) drinking, that thou mayst find in front (of thee) the basin of Kawthar.
اندکی زین شرب کم کن بهر خویش ** تا که حوض کوثری یابی به پیش