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  • This renowned Master-builder observes great congruity in His workmanship: how should He attach to a horse's body part of (the body of) an ox?
  • بس مناسب صنعتست این شهره زاو  ** کی نهد بر جسم اسپ او عضو گاو 

  • The Master-builder has made (all) bodies congruously: He has constructed moving palaces,
  • زاو ابدان را مناسب ساخته  ** قصرهای منتقل پرداخته 

  • (With) balconies in them and cisterns (distributing water) from this (part of the palace) to that;
  • در میان قصرها تخریج‌ها  ** از سوی این سوی آن صهریج‌ها 

  • And within them an infinite world: all this (vast) expanse (is contained) in a single tent. 3510
  • وز درونشان عالمی بی‌منتها  ** در میان خرگهی چندین فضا 

  • Now He causes (one beautiful as) the moon to seem like an incubus (nightmare), now He causes the bottom of a well to have the semblance of a garden.
  • گه چو کابوسی نماید ماه را  ** گه نماید روضه قعر چاه را 

  • Inasmuch as the closing and opening of the eye of the heart by the Almighty is continually working lawful magic,
  • قبض و بسط چشم دل از ذوالجلال  ** دم به دم چون می‌کند سحر حلال 

  • For this reason Mustafá (Mohammed) entreated God, saying, “Let the false appear as false and the true as true,
  • زین سبب درخواست از حق مصطفی  ** زشت را هم زشت و حق را حق‌نما 

  • So that at last, when Thou turnest the leaf, I may not (be stricken) by sorrow (and) fall into agitation.”
  • تا به آخر چون بگردانی ورق  ** از پشیمانی نه افتم در قلق 

  • (’Twas) the Lord of the Kingdom (that) guided the peerless ‘Imádu ’l- Mulk to the deception which he practised. 3515
  • مکر که کرد آن عماد الملک فرد  ** مالک الملکش بدان ارشاد کرد 

  • God's deception is the fountainhead of (all) these deceptions: the heart is between the two fingers of the (Divine) Majesty.
  • مکر حق سرچشمه‌ی این مکرهاست  ** قلب بین اصبعین کبریاست 

  • He who creates deception and (false) analogy in your heart can (also) set the sackcloth (of deception) on fire.
  • آنک سازد در دلت مکر و قیاس  ** آتشی داند زدن اندر پلاس 

  • Return to the Story of the bailiff and the poor debtor: how they turned back from the Khwája's grave, and how the bailiff saw the Khwája in a dream, etc.
  • رجوع کردن به قصه‌ی آن پای‌مرد و آن غریب وام‌دار و بازگشتن ایشان از سر گور خواجه و خواب دیدن پای‌مرد خواجه را الی آخره 

  • This goodly episode is endless (too long to relate in full). When the poor stranger turned back from the Khwája's grave,
  • بی‌نهایت آمد این خوش سرگذشت  ** چون غریب از گور خواجه باز گشت 

  • The bailiff took him to his house and handed over to him the purse of a hundred dinars.
  • پای مردش سوی خانه‌ی خویش برد  ** مهر صد دینار را فا او سپرد 

  • He fetched viands for him and told him stories, so that from the (feeling of) hope (with which the bailiff inspired him) a hundred roses blossomed in his heart. 3520
  • لوتش آورد و حکایت‌هاش گفت  ** کز امید اندر دلش صد گل شکفت 

  • He (the bailiff) opened his lips to relate the ease (prosperity) which he had experienced after difficulty (adversity).
  • آنچ بعد العسر یسر او دیده بود  ** با غریب از قصه‌ی آن لب گشود 

  • Midnight passed, and (he was still) narrating: (then) sleep transported them to the meadow where the spirit feeds.
  • نیم‌شب بگذشت و افسانه کنان  ** خوابشان انداخت تا مرعای جان 

  • On that night the bailiff dreamed that he saw the blessed Khwája (seated) on the high-seat in the (heavenly) palace.
  • دید پامرد آن همایون خواجه را  ** اندر آن شب خواب بر صدر سرا 

  • The Khwája said, “O excellent bailiff, I have heard what you said, point by point,
  • خواجه گفت ای پای‌مرد با نمک  ** آنچ گفتی من شنیدم یک به یک 

  • But I was not commanded to answer, and I durst not open my lips without being directed. 3525
  • لیک پاسخ دادنم فرمان نبود  ** بی‌اشارت لب نیارستم گشود 

  • Now that we have become acquainted with the conditions and degrees (of the spiritual world), a seal has been laid upon our lips,
  • ما چو واقف گشته‌ایم از چون و چند  ** مهر با لب‌های ما بنهاده‌اند 

  • Lest the mysteries of the Unseen should be divulged and (thereby) the life and livelihood (of mortals) be destroyed,
  • تا نگردد رازهای غیب فاش  ** تا نگردد منهدم عیش و معاش 

  • And lest the veil of forgetfulness should be entirely rent and (the meat in) the pot of tribulation be left half-raw.
  • تا ندرد پرده‌ی غفلت تمام  ** تا نماند دیگ محنت نیم‌خام 

  • We are all ear, (though) the (material) form of the ear has become deaf: we are all speech, but our lips are silent.
  • ما همه گوشیم کر شد نقش گوش  ** ما همه نطقیم لیکن لب خموش 

  • We now see (the result of) everything that we gave (during our life in the world): this (material) world is the veil, and that (spiritual) world is the vision. 3530
  • هر چه ما دادیم دیدیم این زمان  ** این جهان پرده‌ست و عینست آن جهان 

  • The day of sowing is the day of concealment and scattering seed in a piece of earth.
  • روز کشتن روز پنهان کردنست  ** تخم در خاکی پریشان کردنست