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2746-2770

  • In spite of all blows the Elephant's feet would not move, either much or little, towards the Ka‘ba.
  • جانب کعبه نرفتی پای پیل  ** با همه لت نه کثیر و نه قلیل 

  • You would have said that its legs were paralysed or that its impetuous spirit was dead.
  • گفتیی خود خشک شد پاهای او  ** یا بمرد آن جان صول‌افزای او 

  • (But) whenever they turned its head towards Yemen, the fierce Elephant would begin to stride (forward) with the speed of a hundred horses.
  • چونک کردندی سرش سوی یمن  ** پیل نر صد اسپه گشتی گام‌زن 

  • (Since) the Elephant's perception was aware of the blow (coming) from the Unseen, how (much more) must the perception of the saint (endowed) with (the Divine) afflatus be (aware)!
  • حس پیل از زخم غیب آگاه بود  ** چون بود حس ولی با ورود 

  • Is it not (the case) that the prophet Jacob, that man of holy nature, (said) for Joseph's sake to all his (Joseph's) brethren— 2750
  • نه که یعقوب نبی آن پاک‌خو  ** بهر یوسف با همه اخوان او 

  • When the brothers begged their father to give him to them, that they might take him to the country for a while,
  • از پدر چون خواستندش دادران  ** تا برندش سوی صحرا یک زمان 

  • (And) they all said to him, “Do not be afraid of harm (befalling him): give him one or two days' time, O father;
  • جمله گفتندش میندیش از ضرر  ** یک دو روزش مهلتی ده ای پدر 

  • For why wilt not thou entrust thy Joseph to us in going about and travelling (for pleasure),
  • که چرا ما را نمی داری امین ** یوسف خود را به سیران و ظعین

  • That we may play together in the meadows? In (making) this request we are trustworthy and beneficent”—
  • تا به هم در مرجها بازی کنیم  ** ما درین دعوت امین و محسنیم 

  • Did not he (Jacob) say (to them), “I know this, that (the thought of) his being removed from me is kindling grief and sickness in my heart; 2755
  • گفت این دانم که نقلش از برم  ** می‌فروزد در دلم درد و سقم 

  • This heart of mine never lies, for my heart is illumined by the light of the highest heaven”?
  • این دلم هرگز نمی‌گوید دروغ  ** که ز نور عرش دارد دل فروغ 

  • That (foreboding) was a decisive proof of (their) wickedness, but by (Divine) destiny he took no account (of it).
  • آن دلیل قاطعی بد بر فساد  ** وز قضا آن را نکرد او اعتداد 

  • An intimation like that passed away from him (from his mind), because Destiny was at that moment (engaged) in (putting into operation the Divine) philosophy.
  • در گذشت از وی نشانی آن‌چنان  ** که قضا در فلسفه بود آن زمان 

  • ’Tis no wonder that a blind man should fall into a pit, (but) the falling of one who can see the way is beyond all wonder.
  • این عجب نبود که کور افتد به چاه  ** بوالعجب افتادن بینای راه 

  • This Destiny employs diverse shifts: its eye-binding spell is God doeth what He pleaseth. 2760
  • این قضا را گونه گون تصریفهاست  ** چشم‌بندش یفعل‌الله ما یشاست 

  • The heart knows and yet knows not its (Destiny's) artfulness: its (hard) iron becomes (soft) as wax for the seal.
  • هم بداند هم نداند دل فنش  ** موم گردد بهر آن مهر آهنش 

  • ’Tis as though the heart should say (to itself), “Since its (Destiny's) inclination is turned to (bringing) this (to pass), whatever may happen, let it come!”
  • گوییی دل گویدی که میل او  ** چون درین شد هرچه افتد باش گو 

  • Accordingly it makes itself heedless of this (happening) and binds its soul fast in the shackle thereof.
  • خویش را زین هم مغفل می‌کند  ** در عقالش جان معقل می‌کند 

  • If that exalted one (the prophet or saint) is checkmated (worsted) in this (matter), ’tis not (really) checkmate, ’tis tribulation.
  • گر شود مات اندرین آن بوالعلا  ** آن نباشد مات باشد ابتلا 

  • A single tribulation redeems him from a hundred tribulations, a single fall takes him (high) up on the ladders (of spiritual ascent). 2765
  • یک بلا از صد بلااش وا خرد  ** یک هبوطش بر معارجها برد 

  • The half-baked saucy fellow, whom the wine (of Love) has relieved from the surfeit of intoxication with a hundred thousand wicked half-baked (persons like himself),
  • خام شوخی که رهانیدش مدام  ** از خمار صد هزاران زشت خام 

  • Finally becomes mature and adept: he escapes from enslavement to this world and is made free.
  • عاقبت او پخته و استاد شد  ** جست از رق جهان و آزاد شد 

  • He is made drunken with the everlasting wine, he becomes (spiritually) discerning, and is delivered from created beings,
  • از شراب لایزالی گشت مست  ** شد ممیز از خلایق باز رست 

  • From their weak conventional faith and from the illusions of their unseeing eyes.
  • ز اعتقاد سست پر تقلیدشان  ** وز خیال دیده‌ی بی‌دیدشان 

  • Oh, what device can their mental perception employ, I wonder, against the ebb and flow of the trackless Sea? 2770
  • ای عجب چه فن زند ادراکشان  ** پیش جزر و مد بحر بی‌نشان