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3598-3622

  • (But) when the sublime Fountain gushes from within (you), no longer need you steal from the (other) fountains.
  • چون بجوشید از درون چشمه‌ی سنی  ** ز استراق چشمه‌ها گردی غنی 

  • Since your eye is rejoiced by water and earth, heart's sorrow is the payment for this joy.
  • قرةالعینت چو ز آب و گل بود  ** راتبه‌ی این قره درد دل بود 

  • When (the supply of) water comes to a fortress from outside, it is more than enough in times of peace; 3600
  • قلعه را چون آب آید از برون  ** در زمان امن باشد بر فزون 

  • (But) when the enemy forms a ring round that (fortress), in order that he may drown them (the garrison) in blood,
  • چونک دشمن گرد آن حلقه کند  ** تا که اندر خونشان غرقه کند 

  • The (hostile) troops cut off the outside water, that (the defenders of) the fortress may have no refuge from them.
  • آب بیرون را ببرند آن سپاه  ** تا نباشد قلعه را زانها پناه 

  • At that time a briny well inside (the walls) is better than a hundred sweet rivers outside.
  • آن زمان یک چاه شوری از درون  ** به ز صد جیحون شیرین از برون 

  • The Cutter of cords (Death) and the armies of Death come, like December, to cut the boughs and leaves (of the body),
  • قاطع الاسباب و لشکرهای مرگ  ** هم‌چو دی آید به قطع شاخ و برگ 

  • (And then) there is no succour for them in the world from Spring, except perchance the Spring of the Beloved's face in the soul. 3605
  • در جهان نبود مددشان از بهار  ** جز مگر در جان بهار روی یار 

  • The Earth is entitled “the Abode of delusion” because she draws back her foot (and deserts you) on the day of passage.
  • زان لقب شد خاک را دار الغرور  ** کو کشد پا را سپس یوم العبور 

  • Before that (time) she was running right and left, saying, “I will take away thy sorrow”; but she never took anything away.
  • پیش از آن بر راست و بر چپ می‌دوید  ** که بچینم درد تو چیزی نچید 

  • In the hour of anxieties she would say to you, “May pain be far from thee, and (may) ten mountains (stand) between (pain and thee)!”
  • او بگفتی مر ترا وقت غمان  ** دور از تو رنج و ده که در میان 

  • When the army of Pain arrives, she holds her breath: she will not even say, “I have seen (and been acquainted with) thee.”
  • چون سپاه رنج آمد بست دم  ** خود نمی‌گوید ترا من دیده‌ام 

  • God made a parable concerning the Devil on this wise: “He leads you into battle by his cunning tricks, 3610
  • حق پی شیطان بدین سان زد مثل  ** که ترا در رزم آرد با حیل 

  • Saying, ‘I will give thee help, I am beside thee, I will run before thee in the perils (of war);
  • که ترا یاری دهم من با توم  ** در خطرها پیش تو من می‌دوم 

  • I will be thy shield amidst the arrows of khadang wood, I will be thy refuge in the hour of distress;
  • اسپرت باشم گه تیر خدنگ  ** مخلص تو باشم اندر وقت تنگ 

  • I will sacrifice my life for thee in raising thee to thy feet. Thou art a Rustam, a lion: come on, be manful!’”
  • جان فدای تو کنم در انتعاش  ** رستمی شیری هلا مردانه باش 

  • By means of these wiles that bag of deceit and cunning and craft leads him (whom he makes his dupe) to infidelity.
  • سوی کفرش آورد زین عشوه‌ها  ** آن جوال خدعه و مکر و دها 

  • As soon as he sets foot (therein) and falls into the moat (of fire), he (the Devil) opens his lips with a loud ha, ha. 3615
  • چون قدم بنهاد در خندق فتاد  ** او به قاهاقاه خنده لب گشاد 

  • (The dupe cries), “Hey, come! I have hopes of thee.” He (the Devil) says, “Begone, begone, for I am quit of thee.
  • هی بیا من طمعها دارم ز تو  ** گویدش رو رو که بیزارم ز تو 

  • Thou didst not fear the justice of the Creator, (but) I fear (it): keep thy hands off me!”
  • تو نترسیدی ز عدل کردگار  ** من همی‌ترسم دو دست از من بدار 

  • (Then) God says (to the Devil), “He (thy dupe), indeed, is parted from felicity, and how shouldst thou be saved by these hypocrisies?”
  • گفت حق خود او جدا شد از بهی  ** تو بدین تزویرها هم کی رهی 

  • On the Day of Reckoning et faciens et pathicus infames sunt lapidationisque consortes. [On the Day of Reckoning (both) the active and passive (homosexuals) will be shamed-faced and partners in (being punished by) stoning.]
  • فاعل و مفعول در روز شمار  ** روسیاهند و حریف سنگسار 

  • Assuredly, by the decree and just dispensation (of God), (both) the waylaid and the waylayer are in the pit of farness (from God) and in an evil resting-place. 3620
  • ره‌زده و ره‌زن یقین در حکم و داد  ** در چه بعدند و در بس المهاد 

  • (Both) the fool and the ghoul who deceived him must ever endure to be deprived of salvation and felicity.
  • گول را و غول را کو را فریفت  ** از خلاص و فوز می‌باید شکیفت 

  • Both the ass and he that caught the ass are (stuck) in the mud here: here (in this world) they are forgetful of (God) and there (in the next world) they are sunk (in woe)—
  • هم خر و خرگیر اینجا در گلند  ** غافلند این‌جا و آن‌جا آفلند