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2892-2916

  • O Lord, make our light complete in the plain of Resurrection and deliver us from shameful and overwhelming indignities!
  • یا رب اتمم نورنا فی الساهره  ** وانجنا من مفضحات قاهره 

  • Do not let Thy night-companion be banished (from Thy presence) in the daytime, do not inflict farness (separation) on the soul that has experienced nearness (union).
  • یار شب را روز مهجوری مده  ** جان قربت‌دیده را دوری مده 

  • Absence from Thee is a grievous and tormenting death, especially the absence that comes after enjoyment of Thy favour.
  • بعد تو مرگیست با درد و نکال  ** خاصه بعدی که بود بعد الوصال 

  • Do not put him that hath seen Thee in the position of one that hath not seen (Thee): sprinkle water on his verdure that has sprung up. 2895
  • آنک دیدستت مکن نادیده‌اش  ** آب زن بر سبزه‌ی بالیده‌اش 

  • I have not acted recklessly (heedlessly) while faring (on Thy Way): do not Thou either act recklessly (ruthlessly) in pricking (inflicting pain upon me).
  • من نکردم لا ابالی در روش  ** تو مکن هم لاابالی در خلش 

  • Oh, do not drive far from Thy face him who once beheld Thy face!
  • هین مران از روی خود او را بعید  ** آنک او یک‌باره آن روی تو دید 

  • To behold the face of any one but Thee is (like the torture of) an iron collar for the throat: everything except God is vain.
  • دید روی جز تو شد غل گلو  ** کل شیء ما سوی الله باطل 

  • They are vain, but they show me the right way because vanity attracts (only) the vain.
  • باطل‌اند و می‌نمایندم رشد  ** زانک باطل باطلان را می‌کشد 

  • Each one of the atoms on atoms which exist in this earth and heaven is like amber (a magnet) for its congener. 2900
  • ذره ذره کاندرین ارض و سماست  ** جنس خود را هر یکی چون کهرباست 

  • The belly attracts bread to its resting-place; the heat of the liver attracts water.
  • معده نان را می‌کشد تا مستقر  ** می‌کشد مر آب را تف جگر 

  • The eye is an attractor of beautiful persons from these (different) quarters of the town; the brain (nose) is seeking (to attract) scents from the rose-garden,
  • چشم جذاب بتان زین کویها  ** مغز جویان از گلستان بویها 

  • Because the sense peculiar to the eye is an attractor of colour, while the brain and nose attract sweet perfumes.
  • زانک حس چشم آمد رنگ کش  ** مغز و بینی می‌کشد بوهای خوش 

  • O Lord who knowest the secret, do Thou preserve us from these attractions by the attraction of Thy grace!
  • زین کششها ای خدای رازدان  ** تو به جذب لطف خودمان ده امان 

  • Thou, O Purchaser, art dominant over (all) attractors: it would be fitting if Thou redeem the helpless.” 2905
  • غالبی بر جاذبان ای مشتری  ** شاید ار درماندگان را وا خری 

  • He turned his face to the King as a thirsty man to a cloud— he who on the Night of Power was the Full-moon's own.
  • رو به شه آورد چون تشنه به ابر  ** آنک بود اندر شب قدر آن بدر 

  • Since his tongue and his spirit were His (the King's), (he was not afraid, for) he who is His may converse with Him boldly.
  • چون لسان وجان او بود آن او  ** آن او با او بود گستاخ‌گو 

  • He said, “We have been bound (in chains) like the spirit in its prison of clay: Thou art the Sun (illuminator) of the spirit on the Day of Judgement.
  • گفت ما گشتیم چون جان بند طین  ** آفتاب جان توی در یوم دین 

  • O King whose course is concealed (from view), the time is come for Thee graciously to make a movement (sign) with Thy beard in clemency.
  • وقت آن شد ای شه مکتوم‌سیر  ** کز کرم ریشی بجنبانی به خیر 

  • Each one (of us) has displayed his specialty: all those talents have (only) increased (our) ill-fortune. 2910
  • هر یکی خاصیت خود را نمود  ** آن هنرها جمله بدبختی فزود 

  • Those talents have bound our necks, by those high attainments we are (thrown) headlong and (laid) low.
  • آن هنرها گردن ما را ببست  ** زان مناصب سرنگوساریم و پست 

  • (Our) talent is a cord of palm-fibre on our neck: there is no help (to be gained) from those accomplishments on the day of death.”
  • آن هنر فی جیدنا حبل مسد  ** روز مردن نیست زان فنها مدد 

  • (None of them avails) save only the specialty of that man endowed with goodly perceptions whose eye was recognising the Sultan in the (darkness of) night.
  • جز همان خاصیت آن خوش‌حواس  ** که به شب بد چشم او سلطان‌شناس 

  • All those talents were (as) ghouls (waylaying travellers) on the road, except (that of) the eye which was aware of the King.
  • آن هنرها جمله غول راه بود  ** غیر چشمی کو ز شه آگاه بود 

  • On the day of audience the King was ashamed (to refuse the petition) of him whose gaze was (fixed) on the King's face at night. 2915
  • شاه را شرم از وی آمد روز بار  ** که به شب بر روی شه بودش نظار 

  • And the dog that is acquainted with the loving King—even him you must entitle “the Dog of the Cave.”
  • وان سگ آگاه از شاه وداد  ** خود سگ کهفش لقب باید نهاد