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3345-3369

  • A certain Amír had a fine horse: there was no equal to it in the Sultan's troop. 3345
  • بود امیری را یکی اسپی گزین  ** در گله‌ی سلطان نبودش یک قرین 

  • Early (one morning) he rode out in the royal cavalcade: suddenly the Khwárizmsháh observed the horse.
  • او سواره گشت در موکب به گاه  ** ناگهان دید اسپ را خوارزمشاه 

  • Its beauty and colour enraptured the king's eye: till his return (home) the king's eye was following the horse.
  • چشم شه را فر و رنگ او ربود  ** تا به رجعت چشم شه با اسپ بود 

  • On whichever limb he let his gaze fall, each seemed to him more pleasing than the other.
  • بر هر آن عضوش که افکندی نظر  ** هر یکش خوشتر نمودی زان دگر 

  • Besides elegance and beauty and spiritedness, God had bestowed on it (other) exquisite qualities.
  • غیر چستی و گشی و روحنت  ** حق برو افکنده بد نادر صفت 

  • Then the king's mind sought to discover what it could be that waylaid (and overpowered) his reason, 3350
  • پس تجسس کرد عقل پادشاه  ** کین چه باشد که زند بر عقل راه 

  • Saying, “My eye is full and satisfied and wanting naught: it is illumined by two hundred suns.
  • چشم من پرست و سیرست و غنی  ** از دو صد خورشید دارد روشنی 

  • Oh, the rook of (other) kings is (but) a pawn in my sight, (and yet) a demi-horse enraptures me without any justification.
  • ای رخ شاهان بر من بیذقی  ** نیم اسپم در رباید بی حقی 

  • The Creator of witchery has bewitched me: ’tis a (Divine) attraction (exerted upon me), not the peculiar virtues of this (horse).”
  • جادوی کردست جادو آفرین  ** جذبه باشد آن نه خاصیات این 

  • He recited the Fátiha and uttered many a lá hawl, (but) the Fátiha (only) increased the passion in his breast,
  • فاتحه خواند و بسی لا حول کرد  ** فاتحه‌ش در سینه می‌افزود درد 

  • Because the Fátiha itself was drawing him on: the Fátiha is unique in drawing on (good) and averting (evil). 3355
  • زانک او را فاتحه خود می‌کشید  ** فاتحه در جر و دفع آمد وحید 

  • If (aught) other (than God) appear (to you), ’tis (the effect of) His illusion; and if (all) other (than God) vanish from sight, ’tis (the effect of) His awakening (you to the reality).
  • گر نماید غیر هم تمویه اوست  ** ور رود غیر از نظر تنبیه اوست 

  • Then it became certain to him (the king) that the attraction was from Yonder: the action of God is producing marvels at every moment.
  • پس یقین گشتش که جذبه زان سریست  ** کار حق هر لحظه نادر آوریست 

  • Because of the (Divine) probation a stone horse (or) a stone cow becomes, through God's deception, an object of worship.
  • اسپ سنگین گاو سنگین ز ابتلا  ** می‌شود مسجود از مکر خدا 

  • In the eyes of the infidel (idolater) the idol has no second (is without parallel), (though) the idol has neither glory nor spirituality.
  • پیش کافر نیست بت را ثانیی  ** نیست بت را فر و نه روحانیی 

  • What is the attracting power, hidden in the hidden most, that shines forth in this world from (its source in) the other world? 3360
  • چست آن جاذب نهان اندر نهان  ** در جهان تابیده از دیگر جهان 

  • The intellect is barred, and the spirit also, from (access to) this ambush; I cannot see it: see it (if) you can!
  • عقل محجوبست و جان هم زین کمین  ** من نمی‌بینم تو می‌توانی ببین 

  • When the Khwárizmsháh returned from his ride, he conferred with the nobles of his kingdom.
  • چونک خوارمشه ز سیران باز گشت  ** با خواص ملک خود هم‌راز گشت 

  • Then he immediately ordered the officers to fetch the horse from that (Amír's) household.
  • پس به سرهنگان بفرمود آن زمان  ** تا بیارند اسپ را زان خاندان 

  • (Quick) as fire, the party (of officers) arrived (there): the Amír who was like a mountain (in pride and stubbornness) became (soft and weak) as a piece of wool
  • هم‌چو آتش در رسیدند آن گروه  ** هم‌چو پشمی گشت امیر هم‌چو کوه 

  • He almost expired from the anguish and defraudment: he saw no (means of) protection except the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk; 3365
  • جانش از درد و غبین تا لب رسید  ** جز عمادالملک زنهاری ندید 

  • For the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk was the foot of the banner to which every victim of injustice and every one stricken by distress would flock for refuge.
  • که عمادالملک بد پای علم  ** بهر هر مظلوم و هر مقتول غم 

  • In sooth there was no chief more revered than he: in the eyes of the Sultan he was like a prophet.
  • محترم‌تر خود نبد زو سروری  ** پیش سلطان بود چون پیغامبری 

  • He was unambitious, strong-minded, devout, ascetic, one who kept vigils and was (like) Hátim in generosity;
  • بی‌طمع بود او اصیل و پارسا  ** رایض و شب‌خیز و حاتم در سخا 

  • Very felicitous in judgement, endowed with foresight, and sage: his judgement had been proved in everything that he sought to attain.
  • بس همایون‌رای و با تدبیر و راد  ** آزموده رای او در هر مراد