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1331-1355

  • (So) he raised his hand to inflict a blow on the nape of the pottage-worshipping Súfí,
  • بر قفای صوفی حمزه‌پرست  ** راست می‌کرد از برای صفع دست 

  • Saying (to himself), “The physician told me it would make me ill if I would not let my desire have its way.
  • کارزو را گر نرانم تا رود  ** آن طبیبم گفت کان علت شود 

  • I will give him a slap in quarrel, for (God hath said), ‘Do not cast yourselves with your own hands into destruction.’
  • سیلیش اندر برم در معرکه  ** زانک لا تلقوا بایدی تهلکه 

  • O such-and-such, this self-restraint and abstinence is (thy) destruction: give him a good blow, do not keep quiet like the others.”
  • تهلکه‌ست این صبر و پرهیز ای فلان  ** خوش بکوبش تن مزن چون دیگران 

  • When he slapped him, there was the sound of a crack: the Súfí cried, “Hey, hey, O rascally pimp!” 1335
  • چون زدش سیلی برآمد یک طراق  ** گفت صوفی هی هی ای قواد عاق 

  • The Súfí was about to give him two or three blows with his fist and tear out his moustache and beard piecemeal (but refrained from doing so).
  • خواست صوفی تا دو سه مشتش زند  ** سبلت و ریشش یکایک بر کند 

  • Mankind are (like) sufferers from phthisis and without a remedy (for their disease), and through the Devil's deception they are passionately addicted to slapping (each other).
  • خلق رنجور دق و بیچاره‌اند  ** وز خداع دیو سیلی باره‌اند 

  • All (of them) are eager to injure the innocent and are seeking (to find) fault behind each others' backs.
  • جمله در ایذای بی‌جرمان حریص  ** در قفای همدگر جویان نقیص 

  • O you who strike the napes of the guiltless, don't you see the retribution (that is coming) behind you?
  • ای زننده بی‌گناهان را قفا  ** در قفای خود نمی‌بینی جزا 

  • O you who fancy that (indulgence of) desire is your (right) medicine and inflict slaps on the weak, 1340
  • ای هوا را طب خود پنداشته  ** بر ضعیفان صفع را بگماشته 

  • He who told you that this is the cure (for your disease) mocked at you: ’tis he that guided Adam to the wheat,
  • بر تو خندید آنک گفتت این دواست  ** اوست که آدم را به گندم رهنماست 

  • Saying, “O ye twain who implore help, eat this grain as a remedy that ye may abide (in Paradise) for ever.”
  • که خورید این دانه او دو مستعین  ** بهر دارو تا تکونا خالدین 

  • He caused him (Adam) to stumble and gave him a slap on the nape: that slap recoiled and became a (penal) retribution for him (the Devil).
  • اوش لغزانید و او را زد قفا  ** آن قفا وا گشت و گشت این را جزا 

  • He caused him (Adam) to stumble terribly in backsliding, but God was his (Adam's) support and helper.
  • اوش لغزانید سخت اندر زلق  ** لیک پشت و دستگیرش بود حق 

  • Adam was (like) a mountain: (even) if he was filled with serpents (of sin), he is a mine of the antidote (to snake-poison) and was unhurt. 1345
  • کوه بود آدم اگر پر مار شد  ** کان تریاقست و بی‌اضرار شد 

  • You, who do not possess an atom of the antidote, why are you deluded by your (hope of) deliverance?
  • تو که تریاقی نداری ذره‌ای  ** از خلاص خود چرایی غره‌ای 

  • Where, in your case, is trust in God like (the trust of) Khalíl (Abraham), and whence will you get the (Divine) grace like (that bestowed upon) Kalím (Moses),
  • آن توکل کو خلیلانه ترا  ** وآن کرامت چون کلیمت از کجا 

  • So that your knife should not cut (the throat of) Ismá‘íl (Ishmael) and that you should make the depths of the Nile a (dry) highway?
  • تا نبرد تیغت اسمعیل را  ** تا کنی شه‌راه قعر نیل را 

  • If a blessed one fell from the minaret (and) was saved by the wind filling his raiment,
  • گر سعیدی از مناره اوفتید  ** بادش اندر جامه افتاد و رهید 

  • Why have you, O good man, committed yourself to the wind when you are not sure of that (same) fortune? 1350
  • چون یقینت نیست آن بخت ای حسن  ** تو چرا بر باد دادی خویشتن 

  • From this minaret hundreds of thousands (of peoples) like ‘Ád fell down and gave to the wind (lost) their lives and souls.
  • زین مناره صد هزاران هم‌چو عاد  ** در فتادند و سر و سر باد داد 

  • Behold those who have fallen headlong from this minaret, hundreds of thousands on thousands!
  • سرنگون افتادگان را زین منار  ** می‌نگر تو صد هزار اندر هزار 

  • (If) you have no sure skill in rope-dancing, give thanks for your feet and walk on the ground.
  • تو رسن‌بازی نمیدانی یقین  ** شکر پاها گوی و می‌رو بر زمین 

  • Don't make wings of paper and fly from the (top of a) mountain, for many a head has gone (to destruction) in this craze.
  • پر مساز از کاغذ و از که مپر  ** که در آن سودا بسی رفتست سر 

  • Although the Súfí was afire with anger, yet he cast his eye on the consequence. 1355
  • گرچه آن صوفی پر آتش شد ز خشم  ** لیک او بر عاقبت انداخت چشم