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1930-1954

  • Though the desert be filled with gold and (silver) money, not a single mite can be taken away without God's approval; 1930
  • گر بیابان پر شود زر و نقود  ** بی رضای حق جوی نتوان ربود 

  • And though you read a hundred volumes without a pause, you will not remember a single point (of argument) without the Divine decree;
  • ور بخوانی صد صحف بی سکته‌ای  ** بی قدر یادت نماند نکته‌ای 

  • But if you serve God and do not read a single book, you will learn rare sciences from your (own) bosom.
  • ور کنی خدمت نخوانی یک کتاب  ** علمهای نادره یابی ز جیب 

  • The hand of Moses was spreading from his bosom a radiance that surpassed the moon in the sky,
  • شد ز جیب آن کف موسی ضو فشان  ** کان فزون آمد ز ماه آسمان 

  • Saying (implicitly), “That which thou wert seeking from the terrible celestial sphere hath uprisen, O Moses, from thy own bosom,
  • کانک می‌جستی ز چرخ با نهیب  ** سر بر آوردستت ای موسی ز جیب 

  • In order that thou mayst know that the lofty heavens are the reflexion of the perceptive (rational) faculties of Man.” 1935
  • تا بدانی که آسمانهای سمی  ** هست عکس مدرکات آدمی 

  • Is it not (the case) that the hand of the Glorious God created Reason first (of all), before (the creation of) the two worlds?
  • نی که اول دست برد آن مجید  ** از دو عالم پیشتر عقل آفرید 

  • This discourse is clear (to some) and exceedingly recondite (to others), for the fly is not intimate with the ‘Anqá.
  • این سخن پیدا و پنهانست بس  ** که نباشد محرم عنقا مگس 

  • O son, return once more to the tale: bring the tale of the treasure and the fakir  to an end.
  • باز سوی قصه باز آ ای پسر  ** قصه‌ی گنج و فقیر آور به سر 

  • Conclusion of the Story of the fakir and (a description of) the signs indicating the position of the treasure.
  • تمامی قصه‌ی آن فقیر و نشان جای آن گنج 

  • This is what was written in the scroll—“Know that outside of the town a treasure is buried.
  • اندر آن رقعه نبشته بود این  ** که برون شهر گنجی دان دفین 

  • (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert. 1940
  • آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست  ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست 

  • Turn your back to it and face the qibla (Mecca) and then let loose an arrow from your bow.
  • پشت با وی کن تو رو در قبله آر  ** وانگهان از قوس تیری بر گذار 

  • When you have shot the arrow from your bow, O fortunate one, dig up the place where your arrow fell.”
  • چون فکندی تیر از قوس ای سعاد  ** بر کن آن موضع که تیرت اوفتاد 

  • Thereupon the youth fetched a strongbow and let fly an arrow into the expanse of (aerial) space,
  • پس کمان سخت آورد آن فتی  ** تیر پرانید در صحن فضا 

  • And quickly and with great joy brought a pick-axe and mattock and dug up the spot where his arrow had fallen;
  • زو تبر آورد و بیل او شاد شاد  ** کند آن موضع که تیرش اوفتاد 

  • (But) both he and the mattock and pick-axe were worn out (in vain efforts), and he found not even a trace of the hidden treasure. 1945
  • کند شد هم او و هم بیل و تبر  ** خود ندید از گنج پنهانی اثر 

  • Every day in like fashion he was shooting arrows, but never getting to know the situation of the treasure.
  • هم‌چنین هر روز تیر انداختی  ** لیک جای گنج را نشناختی 

  • Since he made this his continual practice, a whispered rumour arose in the city and (among) the people.
  • چونک این را پیشه کرد او بر دوام  ** فجفجی در شهر افتاد و عوام 

  • How the news of this treasure became known and reached the ears of the king.
  • فاش شدن خبر این گنج و رسیدن به گوش پادشاه 

  • Then the party (of informers) who lay in ambush gave information of this to the king,
  • پس خبر کردند سلطان را ازین  ** آن گروهی که بدند اندر کمین 

  • And submitted the matter (to him) secretly, saying that such-and-such an one had found a treasure-scroll.
  • عرضه کردند آن سخن را زیردست  ** که فلانی گنج‌نامه یافتست 

  • When this person (the fakir) heard that it had come to (the knowledge of) the king, he saw no remedy but resignation and acquiescence; 1950
  • چون شنید این شخص کین با شه رسید  ** جز که تسلیم و رضا چاره ندید 

  • (So), ere he should suffer (torture on) the rack by order of the Emperor, that person laid the note (of the treasure) before him,
  • پیش از آنک اشکنجه بیند زان قباد  ** رقعه را آن شخص پیش او نهاد 

  • Saying, “(Ever) since I found this scroll, I have seen no treasure but (only) infinite trouble.
  • گفت تا این رقعه را یابیده‌ام  ** گنج نه و رنج بی‌حد دیده‌ام 

  • Not even a single mite of treasure has been discovered, but I have writhed very much, like a snake.
  • خود نشد یک حبه از گنج آشکار  ** لیک پیچیدم بسی من هم‌چو مار 

  • During a (whole) month I have been in bitter distress like this, for loss or gain (accruing) from this (treasure-scroll) is forbidden to me.
  • مدت ماهی چنینم تلخ‌کام  ** که زیان و سود این بر من حرام