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  • 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 

  • (He was) generous both in self-sacrifice and in sacrificing wealth: (he was) always seeking the Sun of the invisible world, like the new-moon. 3370
  • هم به بذل جان سخی و هم به مال  ** طالب خورشید غیب او چون هلال 

  • In his (worldly) princedom he felt strange and embarrassed: he was clad (inwardly) in the attributes of (spiritual) poverty and love (of God).
  • در امیری او غریب و محتبس  ** در صفات فقر وخلت ملتبس 

  • He was like a father to every one in need: before the Sultan he was an intercessor and the means of averting harm.
  • بوده هر محتاج را هم‌چون پدر  ** پیش سلطان شافع و دفع ضرر 

  • To the wicked he was a covering (to palliate their offences), like the clemency of God: his nature was opposite to (that of other) created beings and apart (from theirs).
  • مر بدان را ستر چون حلم خدا  ** خلق او بر عکس خلقان و جدا 

  • Many a time he would have gone alone to the mountains (in order to seclude himself), (but) the Sultan prevented (dissuaded) him by (making) a hundred humble entreaties.
  • بارها می‌شد به سوی کوه فرد  ** شاه با صد لابه او را دفع کرد 

  • If at every moment he had interceded for a hundred sins, the Sultan's eye would have been abashed before him. 3375
  • هر دم ار صد جرم را شافع شدی  ** چشم سلطان را ازو شرم آمدی 

  • He (the Amír) went to the noble ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk: he bared his head and fell on the ground,
  • رفت او پیش عماد الملک راد  ** سر برهنه کرد و بر خاک اوفتاد 

  • Saying, “Let him (the king) take my harem together with all that I possess! Let any raider seize my (entire) revenue!
  • که حرم با هر چه دارم گو بگیر  ** تا بگیرد حاصلم را هر مغیر 

  • (But) there is this one horse—my soul is devoted to it: if he take it, I will surely die, O lover of good.
  • این یکی اسپست جانم رهن اوست  ** گر برد مردم یقین ای خیردوست 

  • If he take this horse out of my hands, I know for certain that I shall not live (long).
  • گر برد این اسپ را از دست من  ** من یقین دانم نخواهم زیستن 

  • Since God has bestowed (on thee) a (spiritual) connexion (with Himself), stroke my head at once with thy hand, O Messiah! 3380
  • چون خدا پیوستگیی داده است  ** بر سرم مال ای مسیحا زود دست 

  • I can bear the loss of my women and gold and estates: this is not pretence nor is it an imposture.
  • از زن و زر و عقارم صبر هست  ** این تکلف نیست نی تزویریست 

  • If thou dost not believe me in this (matter), try me, try me in word and deed!”
  • اندرین گر می‌نداری باورم  ** امتحان کن امتحان گفت و قدم 

  • Weeping and wiping his eyes, the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk ran, with agitated mien, into the presence of the Sultan.
  • آن عمادالملک گریان چشم‌مال  ** پیش سلطان در دوید آشفته‌حال 

  • He closed his lips and stood before the Sultan, communing with God the Lord of (all) His slaves.
  • لب ببست و پیش سلطان ایستاد  ** راز گویان با خدا رب العباد 

  • He stood and listened to the Sultan's intimate talk, while inwardly his thought was weaving this (prayer)— 3385
  • ایستاده راز سلطان می‌شنید  ** واندرون اندیشه‌اش این می‌تنید 

  • “O God, if that young man (the Amír) has gone the wrong way, for ’tis not fitting to make any one except Thee a refuge,
  • کای خداگر آن جوان کژ رفت راه  ** که نشاید ساختن جز تو پناه 

  • (Yet) do Thou act in Thine own (generous) fashion and be not offended with him although he beseech any (poor) prisoner (like me) to deliver him,
  • تو از آن خود بکن از وی مگیر  ** گرچه او خواهد خلاص از هر اسیر 

  • Because all these creatures (of Thine) are in need (of Thee): take (it that) all (are alike in this respect) from a beggar to the Sultan (himself).”
  • زانک محتاجند این خلقان همه  ** از گدایی گیر تا سلطان همه 

  • To seek guidance from candle and wick when the perfect Sun is present,
  • با حضور آفتاب با کمال  ** رهنمایی جستن از شمع و ذبال 

  • To seek light from candle and lamp when the smoothly-rolling Sun is present, 3390
  • با حضور آفتاب خوش‌مساغ  ** روشنایی جستن از شمع و چراغ 

  • Doubtless ’tis irreverence on our part, ’tis ingratitude and an act of self-will,
  • بی‌گمان ترک ادب باشد ز ما  ** کفر نعمت باشد و فعل هوا 

  • But most minds in (their) thinking are lovers of darkness, like the bat.
  • لیک اغلب هوش‌ها در افتکار  ** هم‌چو خفاشند ظلمت دوستدار 

  • If the bat eats a worm during the night, (yet it is) the Sun (that) fosters the life of the worm.
  • در شب ار خفاش کرمی می‌خورد  ** کرم را خورشید جان می‌پرورد