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2632-2656

  • 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.”
  • هادی راهست یار اندر قدوم  ** مصطفی زین گفت اصحابی نجوم 

  • 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 

  • From the wine that (is so potent that) when it is quaffed the water of speech gushes from (the mouth of) the dumb, 2655
  • زان میی کان می چو نوشیده شود  ** آب نطق از گنگ جوشیده شود 

  • And the new-born child becomes an eloquent divine and, like the Messiah (Christ), recites (words of) mature wisdom.
  • طفل نوزاده شود حبر فصیح  ** حکمت بالغ بخواند چون مسیح