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1503-1527

  • Or hast thou forgotten those deeds of thine, since heedlessness has let down curtains (of oblivion) over thee?
  • یا فراموشت شدست از کرده‌هات  ** که فرو آویخت غفلت پرده‌هات 

  • If there were no litigations pursuing thee the celestial orb would envy thy happiness,
  • گر نه خصمیهاستی اندر قفات  ** جرم گردون رشک بردی بر صفات 

  • But on account of those just claims (against thee) thou art embarrassed. Little by little, (therefore), beg to be excused for thy unrighteousness. 1505
  • لیک محبوسی برای آن حقوق  ** اندک اندک عذر می‌خواه از عقوق 

  • Lest the Inspector suddenly arrest thee, now (at once) make thy (turbid) water clear (make full amends and wipe out thy injustice) towards the lover (of God).
  • تا به یکبارت نگیرد محتسب  ** آب خود روشن کن اکنون با محب 

  • The Súfi went to the man who had slapped him, and laid hold of his skirt like a plaintiff.
  • رفت صوفی سوی آن سیلی‌زنش  ** دست زد چون مدعی در دامنش 

  • Haling him along, he brought him to the Cadi, saying, “Mount this asinine miscreant on an ass (and parade him through the streets),
  • اندر آوردش بر قاضی کشان  ** کین خر ادبار را بر خر نشان 

  • Or punish him with blows of the whip, according as thy judgement may deem fitting;
  • یا به زخم دره او را ده جزا  ** آنچنان که رای تو بیند سزا 

  • For (in the case of) one who dies under thy chastisement, no fine is (imposed) on thee in vengeance (for him): that (death) is unpenalised.” 1510
  • کانک از زجر تو میرد در دمار  ** بر تو تاوان نیست آن باشد جبار 

  • When any one has died under the punishment and flagellation of the cadi no responsibility lies on the cadi, for he (the cadi) is not a person of small account.
  • در حد و تعزیر قاضی هر که مرد  ** نیست بر قاضی ضمان کو نیست خرد 

  • He is God’s deputy and the shadow of God’s justice, the mirror (that displays the real nature) of every plaintiff and defendant;
  • نایب حقست و سایه‌ی عدل حق  ** آینه‌ی هر مستحق و مستحق 

  • For he inflicts correction for the sake of one who has been wronged, not for the sake of his honour or his anger or his income (profit).
  • کو ادب از بهر مظلومی کند  ** نه برای عرض و خشم و دخل خود 

  • Since it is (done) for the sake of God and the Day (of Judgement) hereafter, if a mistake is made (by him) the blood-wit falls upon the (dead man’s) kinsmen on the father’s side.
  • چون برای حق و روز آجله‌ست  ** گر خطایی شد دیت بر عاقله‌ست 

  • He who strikes (and kills) for his own sake is (held) responsible, while he who strikes (and kills) for God’s sake is secure. 1515
  • آنک بهر خود زند او ضامنست  ** وآنک بهر حق زند او آمنست 

  • If a father strikes his son and he (the son) dies, the father must pay the blood-price,
  • گر پدر زد مر پسر را و بمرد  ** آن پدر را خون‌بها باید شمرد 

  • Because he struck him for his own benefit, (since) it is the duty of the son to serve him (the father).
  • زانک او را بهر کار خویش زد  ** خدمت او هست واجب بر ولد 

  • (But) when a teacher strikes a boy and he (the boy) perishes (is killed by the blows), nothing (in the way of penalty) is (imposed) on the teacher; no fear’
  • چون معلم زد صبی را شد تلف  ** بر معلم نیست چیزی لا تخف 

  • For the teacher is a deputy (of God) and a trustee; and the ease of every trustee is the same as this
  • کان معلم نایب افتاد و امین  ** هر امین را هست حکمش همچنین 

  • It is not his (the boy’s) duty to serve his master (teacher) therefore in chastising him the master was not seeking benefit (for himself), 1520
  • نیست واجب خدمت استا برو  ** پس نبود استا به زجرش کارجو 

  • But if his father struck him, he struck for his own sake: consequently he was not freed from (responsibility for) paying the blood-price.
  • ور پدر زد او برای خود زدست  ** لاجرم از خونبها دادن نرست 

  • Behead (your) selfhood, then, O (you who resemble the sword) Dhu ‘l-faqár: become a selfless naughted one like the dervish.
  • پس خودی را سر ببر ای ذوالفقار  ** بی‌خودی شو فانیی درویش‌وار 

  • When you have become selfless, everything that you do (is a case of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, (and) you are safe.
  • چون شدی بی‌خود هر آنچ تو کنی  ** ما رمیت اذ رمیتی آمنی 

  • The responsibility lies on God, not on the trustee: ‘tis set forth plainly in (books of) jurisprudence.
  • آن ضمان بر حق بود نه بر امین  ** هست تفصیلش به فقه اندر مبین 

  • Every shop has a different (kind of) merchandise: the Mathnawi is the shop for (spiritual) poverty, O son. 1525
  • هر دکانی راست سودایی دگر  ** مثنوی دکان فقرست ای پسر 

  • In the shoemaker’s shop there is fine leather: if you see wood (there), it is (only) the mould for the shoe.
  • در دکان کفشگر چرمست خوب  ** قالب کفش است اگر بینی تو چوب 

  • The drapers have (in their shops) silk and dun-coloured cloth: if iron be (there), it is (only to serve) for a yard-measure.
  • پیش بزازان قز و ادکن بود  ** بهر گز باشد اگر آهن بود