Gratitude to him (the benefactor) is certainly (the same as) gratitude to God, since (it was) the Divine favour (that) caused him to show beneficence.
شکر او شکر خدا باشد یقین ** چون به احسان کرد توفیقش قرین
To be ungrateful to him is to be ungrateful to God: beyond doubt his right (to gratitude) is consequent on (that of) God.3255
ترک شکرش ترک شکر حق بود ** حق او لا شک به حق ملحق بود
Always give thanks to God for His bounties, and always give thanks and praise to the Khwája (your benefactor) too.
شکر می‌کن مر خدا را در نعم ** نیز می‌کن شکر و ذکر خواجه هم
Though a mother's tenderness is (derived) from God, (yet) ’tis a sacred duty and a worthy task to serve her.
رحمت مادر اگر چه از خداست ** خدمت او هم فریضه‌ست و سزاست
For this reason God hath said, ‘Do ye bless him (the Prophet),’ for Mohammed was one to whom (the attributes of Divine Providence) were transferred.
زین سبب فرمود حق صلوا علیه ** که محمد بود محتال الیه
At the Resurrection God will say to His servant, ‘Hark, what have you done with that which I bestowed on you?’
در قیامت بنده را گوید خدا ** هین چه کردی آنچ دادم من ترا
He will reply, ‘O Lord, I gave thanks to Thee with (all) my soul, since the source of my daily provision and bread was in Thee.’3260
گوید ای رب شکر تو کردم به جان ** چون ز تو بود اصل آن روزی و نان
(Then) God will say to him, ‘Nay, you did not give thanks to Me, inasmuch as you did not give thanks to him who made a practice of generosity.
گویدش حق نه نکردی شکر من ** چون نکردی شکر آن اکرام‌فن
You have done wrong and injustice to a generous man: did not My bounty come to you by his hand?’”
بر کریمی کرده‌ای ظلم و ستم ** نه ز دست او رسیدت نعمتم
When he (the debtor) arrived at the tomb of his benefactor, he began to weep bitterly and broke into loud lamentation.
چون به گور آن ولی‌نعمت رسید ** گشت گریان زار و آمد در نشید
He said, “O thou who wert the support and refuge of every noble (righteous) man and the hope and helper of wayfarers,
گفت ای پشت و پناه هر نبیل ** مرتجی و غوث ابناء السبیل
O thou on whose heart the care for our means of livelihood (lay constantly), O thou whose beneficence and charity were (like) the universal provision of sustenance,3265
ای غم ارزاق ما بر خاطرت ** ای چو رزق عام احسان و برت
O thou who wert (as) kinsfolk and parents to the poor in (paying) their taxes and expenses and in discharging their debts,
ای فقیران را عشیره و والدین ** در خراج و خرج و در ایفاء دین
O thou who, like the sea, gavest pearls for those near (to thee) and (didst send) rain as a gift to those afar,
ای چو بحر از بهر نزدیکان گهر ** داده و تحفه سوی دوران مطر
Our backs were warmed by thee, O sun (who wert) the splendour in every palace and the treasure in every ruin.
پشت ما گرم از تو بود ای آفتاب ** رونق هر قصر و گنج هر خراب
O thou in whose eyebrow none ever saw knots (wrinkles), O thou (who wert) generous and bountiful as (the archangel) Michael,
ای در ابرویت ندیده کس گره ** ای چو میکائیل راد و رزق‌ده
O thou whose heart was connected with the Sea of the Unseen, O thou who wert the invisible ‘Anqá on the Qáf (mountain) of munificence,3270
ای دلت پیوسته با دریای غیب ** ای به قاف مکرمت عنقای غیب
Who never tookest thought how much of thy wealth had gone, and the roof of the azimuth (amplitude) of thy magnanimity was never cloven,
یاد ناورده که از مالم چه رفت ** سقف قصد همتت هرگز نکفت
O thou to whom in (every) month and year I and a hundred like me had become a family (tenderly cared for) like thine own children,
ای من و صد هم‌چو من در ماه و سال ** مر ترا چون نسل تو گشته عیال
Thou wert our ready money and our movables and our furniture, our fame and our glory and our fortune.
نقد ما و جنس ما و رخت ما ** نام ما و فخر ما و بخت ما
Thou art not dead; (but) our luxury and fortune are dead, our happy life is dead and the sustenance that was provided in full measure.
تو نمردی ناز و بخت ما بمرد ** عیش ما و رزق مستوفی بمرد
(Thou wert) a single person like (equivalent to) a thousand in warfare and in generosity; (thou wert) as a hundred Hátims in the hour of lavishing bounties unselfishly.3275
واحد کالالف در رزم و کرم ** صد چو حاتم گاه ایثار نعم
If Hátim bestows dead (worldly goods) on the (spiritually) dead (worldlings), he (is like one who) bestows a certain number of walnuts (on children).
حاتم ار مرده به مرده می‌دهد ** گردگان‌های شمرده می‌دهد
Thou at every moment art bestowing a life that, because of its preciousness, cannot be contained in breath (words).
تو حیاتی می‌دهی در هر نفس ** کز نفیسی می‌نگنجد در نفس
Thou art bestowing a life exceedingly enduring, real gold coin exempt from depreciation and beyond count.
تو حیاتی می‌دهی بس پایدار ** نقد زر بی‌کساد و بی‌شمار