If you desire benefit and (spiritual) wheat from this Barn, do not part, even for half an hour, from those who sympathise,2630
گر ازین انبار خواهی بر و بر ** نیم‌ساعت هم ز همدردان مبر
For at the moment when you part from this helper you will be afflicted with an evil comrade
که در آن دم که ببری زین معین ** مبتلی گردی تو با بس القرین
Story of the attachment between the mouse and the frog: how they tied their legs together with a long string, and how a raven carried off the mouse, and how the frog was suspended (in the air) and lamented and repented of having attached himself to an animal of a different species instead of sorting with one of his own kind.
حکایت تعلق موش با چغز و بستن پای هر دو به رشته‌ای دراز و بر کشیدن زاغ موش را و معلق شدن چغز و نالیدن و پشیمانی او از تعلق با غیر جنس و با جنس خود ناساختن
As it happened, a mouse and a faithful frog had become friends on the bank of a river.
از قضا موشی و چغزی با وفا ** بر لب جو گشته بودند آشنا
Both of them were bound to (keep) a (daily) tryst: every morning they would come into a nook,
هر دو تن مربوط میقاتی شدند ** هر صباحی گوشه‌ای می‌آمدند
(Where) they played heart-and-soul with one another and emptied their breasts of evil (suspicious) thoughts.
نرد دل با هم‌دگر می‌باختند ** از وساوس سینه می‌پرداختند
The hearts of both swelled (with joy) from meeting: they recited stories and listened to each other,2635
هر دو را دل از تلاقی متسع ** هم‌دگر را قصه‌خوان و مستمع
Telling secrets with and without tongue, knowing how to interpret (the Tradition), “A united party is a (Divine) mercy.”
رازگویان با زبان و بی‌زبان ** الجماعه رحمه را تاویل دان
Whenever the exultant (mouse) consorted with the merry (frog), a five years' tale would come into his mind.
آن اشر چون جفت آن شاد آمدی ** پنج ساله قصه‌اش یاد آمدی
Flow of speech from the heart is a sign of (intimate) friendship; obstruction of speech arises from lack of intimacy.
جوش نطق از دل نشان دوستیست ** بستگی نطق از بی‌الفتیست
The heart that has seen the sweetheart, how should it remain bitter? (When) a nightingale has seen the rose, how should he remain silent?
دل که دلبر دید کی ماند ترش ** بلبلی گل دید کی ماند خمش
At the touch of Khadir the roasted fish came to life and took its abode in the sea.2640
ماهی بریان ز آسیب خضر ** زنده شد در بحر گشت او مستقر
To the friend, when he is seated beside his Friend, a hundred thousand tablets of mystery are made known.
یار را با یار چون بنشسته شد ** صد هزاران لوح سر دانسته شد
The brow of the Friend is a Guarded Tablet: to him (his friend) it reveals plainly the secret of the two worlds.
لوح محفوظ است پیشانی یار ** راز کونینش نماید آشکار
The Friend is the guide on the way during (his friend's) advance: hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “My Companions are (like) the stars.”
The star shows the way in (desert) sands and on the sea: fix thine eye on the (spiritual) Star, for he is the one to be followed.
نجم اندر ریگ و دریا رهنماست ** چشم اندر نجم نه کو مقتداست
Keep thine eye always paired with (unseparated from) his face: do not stir up dust by way of discussion and argument,2645
چشم را با روی او می‌دار جفت ** گرد منگیزان ز راه بحث و گفت
Because the Star will be hidden by that dust: the eye is better than the stumbling tongue.
زانک گردد نجم پنهان زان غبار ** چشم بهتر از زبان با عثار
(Be silent) in order that he may speak whose innermost garment is (Divine) inspiration which lays the dust and does not stir up trouble.
تا بگوید او که وحیستش شعار ** کان نشاند گرد و ننگیزد غبار
When Adam became the theatre of (Divine) inspiration and love, his rational soul revealed (to him) the knowledge of the Names.
چون شد آدم مظهر وحی و وداد ** ناطقه‌ی او علم الاسما گشاد
His tongue, (reading) from the page of his heart, recited the name of everything as it (really) is.
نام هر چیزی چنانک هست آن ** از صحیفه‌ی دل روی گشتش زبان
Through his (inward) vision his tongue was divulging the properties and quiddities of all things.2650
فاش می‌گفتی زبان از ریتش ** جمله را خاصیت و ماهیتش
(It was bestowing) such a name as fits the things (named), not so as to call a catamite a lion (hero).
آنچنان نامی که اشیا را سزد ** نه چنانک حیز را خواند اسد
Nine hundred years Noah (walked) in the straight way, and every day he had a new sermon to preach.
نوح نهصد سال در راه سوی ** بود هر روزیش تذکیر نوی
His ruby (lip) drew its eloquence from the corundum (precious jewel) in the hearts (of prophets): he had not read (mystical books like) the Risála or the Qútu ’l-qulúb.
لعل او گویا ز یاقوت القلوب ** نه رساله خوانده نه قوت القلوب
He had never learned to preach from (studying) commentaries; nay, (he learned) from the fountain of revelations and from the exposition (set forth) by the spirit—
وعظ را ناموخته هیچ از شروح ** بلک ینبوع کشوف و شرح روح