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3027-3051

  • How should the magicians who were acquainted with God's Hand (Power) bestow (the name of) hands and feet upon these hands and feet?
  • ساحران واقف از دست خدا  ** کی نهند این دست و پا را دست و پا 

  • The fox that is backed by those lions will break the skulls of the leopards with his fist.
  • روبهی که هست زان شیرانش پشت  ** بشکند کله‌ی پلنگان را به مشت 

  • How Ja‘far, may God be well-pleased with him, advanced alone to capture a fortress, and how the king of the fortress consulted (his vizier) as to the means of repelling him, and how the vizier said to the king, “Beware! Surrender (it) and do not be so foolhardy as to hurl thyself upon him; for this man is (Divinely) aided and possesses in his soul a great collectedness (derived) from God,” etc.
  • آمدن جعفر رضی الله عنه به گرفتن قلعه به تنهایی و مشورت کردن ملک آن قلعه در دفع او و گفتن آن وزیر ملک را کی زنهار تسلیم کن و از جهل تهور مکن کی این مرد میدست و از حق جمعیت عظیم دارد در جان خویش الی آخره 

  • When Ja‘far advanced against a certain fortress, the fortress (seemed) to his dry palate (to be no more than) a single gulp.
  • چونک جعفر رفت سوی قلعه‌ای  ** قلعه پیش کام خشکش جرعه‌ای 

  • Riding alone, he charged up to the fortress, so that they (the garrison) locked the fortress-gate in dread. 3030
  • یک سواره تاخت تا قلعه بکر  ** تا در قلعه ببستند از حذر 

  • No one dared to meet him in battle: what stomach have the ship's crew (to contend) with a leviathan?
  • زهره نه کس را که پیش آید به جنگ  ** اهل کشتی را چه زهره با نهنگ 

  • The king turned to his vizier, saying, “What is to be done in this crisis, Counsellor?”
  • روی آورد آن ملک سوی وزیر  ** که چه چاره‌ست اندرین وقت ای مشیر 

  • He replied, “(The only remedy is) that you should bid farewell to pride and cunning, and come to him with sword and shroud.”
  • گفت آنک ترک گویی کبر و فن  ** پیش او آیی به شمشیر و کفن 

  • “Why,” said the king, “is not he a single man (and) alone?” He (the vizier) replied, “Do not look with contempt on the man's loneliness.
  • گفت آخر نه یکی مردیست فرد  ** گفت منگر خوار در فردی مرد 

  • Open your eye: look well at the fortress: it is trembling before him like quicksilver. 3035
  • چشم بگشا قلعه را بنگر نکو  ** هم‌چو سیمابست لرزان پیش او 

  • He sits (alone) on the saddle, (but) his nerve is just as unshaken as if an (army of the) East and West were accompanying him.
  • شسته در زین آن‌چنان محکم‌پیست  ** گوییا شرقی و غربی با ویست 

  • Several men rushed forward, like Fidá’ís (desperate assassins), and flung themselves into combat with him.
  • چند کس هم‌چون فدایی تاختند  ** خویشتن را پیش او انداختند 

  • He felled each of them with a blow of his mace (so that they were hurled) headlong at the feet of his steed.
  • هر یکی را او بگرزی می‌فکند  ** سر نگوسار اندر اقدام سمند 

  • God's (creative) action had bestowed on him such a collectedness that he was attacking a (whole) people single-handed.
  • داده بودش صنع حق جمعیتی  ** که همی‌زد یک تنه بر امتی 

  • When mine eye beheld the face of that (spiritual) emperor, (all) plurality vanished from my sight.” 3040
  • چشم من چون دید روی آن قباد  ** کثرت اعداد از چشمم فتاد 

  • The stars are many; though the sun is one, (yet) on his appearance their foundation is demolished.
  • اختران بسیار و خورشید ار یکیست  ** پیش او بنیاد ایشان مندکیست 

  • If a thousand mice put forth their heads, the cat feels no fear or apprehension of danger.
  • گر هزاران موش پیش آرند سر  ** گربه را نه ترس باشد نه حذر 

  • How should mice advance (to the attack), O such-and-such? They have no collectedness in their souls.
  • کی به پیش آیند موشان ای فلان  ** نیست جمعیت درون جانشان 

  • The collectedness (that consists) in outward forms is a vain thing: hark, beg from the Creator collectedness of spirit.
  • هست جمعیت به صورتها فشار  ** جمع معنی خواه هین از کردگار 

  • Collectedness is not the result of bodily multitude: know that body, like name, is built on (empty) air. 3045
  • نیست جمعیت ز بسیاری جسم  ** جسم را بر باد قایم دان چو اسم 

  • If there were any collectedness in the heart of the mouse, a number of mice would be collected (united) by a feeling of indignation,
  • در دل موش ار بدی جمعیتی  ** جمع گشتی چند موش از حمیتی 

  • And, rushing up like assassins, they would throw themselves on a cat without (giving her) any respite.
  • بر زدندی چون فدایی حمله‌ای  ** خویش را بر گربه‌ی بی‌مهله‌ای 

  • One would tear out her eyes in conflict (with her), while another would rip her ears with its teeth,
  • آن یکی چشمش بکندی از ضراب  ** وان دگر گوشش دریدی هم به ناب 

  • And another make a hole in her side: there would be no way of escape for her from the united party.
  • وان دگر سوراخ کردی پهلوش  ** از جماعت گم شدی بیرون شوش 

  • But the soul of the mouse has no collectedness: at the miaul of a cat (all) its wits fly out of its soul. 3050
  • لیک جمعیت ندارد جان موش  ** بجهد از جانش به بانگ گربه هوش 

  • The mouse is paralysed by the wily cat, (even) if the numbers of the mice amount to a hundred thousand.
  • خشک گردد موش زان گربه‌ی عیار  ** گر بود اعداد موشان صد هزار