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  • The front and back of its towers and its roof and floor are all (covered with) images and decorations and pictures,
  • رو و پشت برجهاش و سقف و پست  ** جمله تمثال و نگار و صورتست 

  • Like the chamber of Zalíkhá (which she made) full of pictures in order that Joseph should look upon her willy-nilly.
  • هم‌چو آن حجره‌ی زلیخا پر صور  ** تا کند یوسف بناکامش نظر 

  • Since Joseph would not look at her, she cunningly filled the room with portraits of herself,
  • چونک یوسف سوی او می‌ننگرید  ** خانه را پر نقش خود کرد آن مکید 

  • So that, wherever the fair-cheeked (youth) looked, he might see her face without having the power to choose.
  • تا به هر سو که نگرد آن خوش‌عذار  ** روی او را بیند او بی‌اختیار 

  • The peerless God hath made (all) the six directions a theatre for the display of His signs to the clairvoyant, 3640
  • بهر دیده‌روشنان یزدان فرد  ** شش جهت را مظهر آیات کرد 

  • In order that, whatever animal or plant they look upon, they may feed on the meadows of Divine Beauty.
  • تا بهر حیوان و نامی که نگزند  ** از ریاض حسن ربانی چرند 

  • Hence He said unto the company (of mystics), ‘Wheresoever ye turn, His Face is there.
  • بهر این فرمود با آن اسپه او  ** حیث ولیتم فثم وجهه 

  • If in thirst ye drink some water from a cup, ye are beholding God within the water.’
  • از قدح‌گر در عطش آبی خورید  ** در درون آب حق را ناظرید 

  • He that is not a lover (of God) sees in the water his own image, O man of insight;
  • آنک عاشق نیست او در آب در  ** صورت صورت خود بیند ای صاحب‌بصر 

  • (But) since the lover's image has disappeared in Him (the Beloved), whom now should he behold in the water? Tell (me that)! 3645
  • صورت عاشق چو فانی شد درو  ** پس در آب اکنون کرا بیند بگو 

  • Through the working of the Jealous One, they (the mystics) behold the beauty of God in the faces of the houris, like the moon (reflected) in water.
  • حسن حق بینند اندر روی حور  ** هم‌چو مه در آب از صنع غیور 

  • His jealousy is (directed) against a lover and sincere (adorer); His jealousy is not (directed) against a (human) devil and beast;
  • غیرتش بر عاشقی و صادقیست  ** غیرتش بر دیو و بر استور نیست 

  • (But) if the devil become a lover (of God), he has carried off the palm: he has become a Gabriel and his devilish nature is dead.
  • دیو اگر عاشق شود هم گوی برد  ** جبرئیلی گشت و آن دیوی بمرد 

  • (The meaning of) ‘the Devil became a true believer’ is made manifest on the occasion when by His (God's) grace a Yazíd becomes a Báyazíd.
  • اسلم الشیطان آنجا شد پدید  ** که یزیدی شد ز فضلش بایزید 

  • This topic is endless. Beware, O company (of travellers), keep your faces (safe) from that fortress! 3650
  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای گروه  ** هین نگه دارید زان قلعه وجوه 

  • Oh, let not vain desire waylay you, or ye will fall into everlasting misery.
  • هین مبادا که هوستان ره زند  ** که فتید اندر شقاوت تا ابد 

  • ’Tis a bounden duty to abstain from peril: hear disinterested advice from me.
  • از خطر پرهیز آمد مفترض  ** بشنوید از من حدیث بی‌غرض 

  • In seeking relief (from sorrow) ’tis better that one's wits should be sharp: ’tis better to abstain from (falling into) the ambuscade of tribulation.”
  • در فرج جویی خرد سر تیز به  ** از کمین‌گاه بلا پرهیز به 

  • If their father had not spoken these words and had not warned them against that fortress,
  • گر نمی‌گفت این سخن را آن پدر  ** ور نمی‌فرمود زان قلعه حذر 

  • Their party would never have approached the fortress, their desire would never have inclined towards it; 3655
  • خود بدان قلعه نمی‌شد خیلشان  ** خود نمی‌افتاد آن سو میلشان 

  • For it was not well-known: it was exceedingly remote and aloof from the (other) fortresses and the highways.
  • کان نبد معروف بس مهجور بود  ** از قلاع و از مناهج دور بود 

  • (But) when he (the King) uttered that prohibition, their hearts were thrown by his speech into vain desire and into the quarter of phantasy,
  • چون بکرد آن منع دلشان زان مقال  ** در هوس افتاد و در کوی خیال 

  • And, because of this prohibition, a craving arose in their hearts to investigate the secret of that (fortress).
  • رغبتی زین منع در دلشان برست  ** که بباید سر آن را باز جست 

  • Who is (to be found) that will refrain from the forbidden thing, since man longs eagerly for what is forbidden?
  • کیست کز ممنوع گردد ممتنع  ** چونک الانسان حریص ما منع 

  • The veto causes the devout to hate (that which is vetoed); the veto incites the sensual to covet it. 3660
  • نهی بر اهل تقی تبغیض شد  ** نهی بر اهل هوا تحریض شد