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3914-3938

  • (Whilst) a drunken king was feasting merrily, a certain jurist passed by his gate.
  • پادشاهی مست اندر بزم خوش  ** می‌گذشت آن یک فقیهی بر درش 

  • He gave directions, saying, “Bring him into this hall and give him a drink of the ruby wine.” 3915
  • کرد اشارت کش درین مجلس کشید  ** وان شراب لعل را با او چشید 

  • So they brought him to the king, (for) he had no choice (power to resist): he sat down in the hall, (looking) sour as poison and snakes.
  • پس کشیدندش به شه بی‌اختیار  ** شست در مجلس ترش چون زهر و مار 

  • (When) he (the cup-bearer) offered him wine, he angrily refused it and averted his eyes from the king and the cup-bearer,
  • عرضه کردش می نپذرفت او به خشم  ** از شه و ساقی بگردانید چشم 

  • Saying, “I have never drunk wine in my life: rank poison would please me better than wine.
  • که به عمر خود نخوردستم شراب  ** خوشتر آید از شرابم زهر ناب 

  • Hey, give me some poison instead of the wine, that I may be delivered from myself and ye from this (impoliteness).”
  • هین به جای می به من زهری دهید  ** تا من از خویش و شما زین وا رهید 

  • Without having drunk wine, he began to make a row and became as disagreeable to the company as death and (its) pangs. 3920
  • می نخورده عربده آغاز کرد  ** گشته در مجلس گران چون مرگ و درد 

  • (This is) like (the behaviour of) carnal earthly-minded people in the world when they sit (associate) with spiritual folk.
  • هم‌چو اهل نفس و اهل آب و گل  ** در جهان بنشسته با اصحاب دل 

  • God keeps His elect (ever) drinking secretly the wine of the free.
  • حق ندارد خاصگان را در کمون  ** از می احرار جز در یشربون 

  • They offer the cup to one who is veiled (uninitiated), (but his) perception apprehends naught thereof except the (literal) words.
  • عرضه می‌دارند بر محجوب جام  ** حس نمی‌یابد از آن غیر کلام 

  • He averts his face from their guidance because he does not see their gift with his eye.
  • رو همی گرداند از ارشادشان  ** که نمی‌بیند به دیده دادشان 

  • If there were a passage from his ear to his throat, the hidden meaning of their admonition would have entered his inward parts. 3925
  • گر ز گوشش تا به حلقش ره بدی  ** سر نصح اندر درونشان در شدی 

  • Inasmuch as his spirit is wholly fire, not light, who would throw anything but husks into a blazing fire?
  • چون همه نارست جانش نیست نور  ** که افکند در نار سوزان جز قشور 

  • The kernel remains outside and the husk, (consisting of mere) words, goes (in): how should the stomach be made warm and stout by husks?
  • مغز بیرون ماند و قشر گفت رفت  ** کی شود از قشر معده گرم و زفت 

  • The Fire of Hell torments only the husks: the Fire has nothing to do with any kernel;
  • نار دوزخ جز که قشر افشار نیست  ** نار را با هیچ مغزی کار نیست 

  • And if a fire should dart its flames at the kernel, know that ’tis in order to cook it, not to burn it.
  • ور بود بر مغز ناری شعله‌زن  ** بهر پختن دان نه بهر سوختن 

  • So long as God is the Wise, know that this law is perpetual (both) in the past and in the time that has not (yet) come. 3930
  • تا که باشد حق حکیم این قاعده  ** مستمر دان در گذشته و نامده 

  • The pure kernels and (also) the husks are pardoned by Him: how, then, should He burn the kernel? Far (be it) from Him!
  • مغز نغز و قشرها مغفور ازو  ** مغز را پس چون بسوزد دور ازو 

  • If in His grace He beat the head of him (who resembles the husk), he (such an one) will feel an eager desire for the red wine;
  • از عنایت گر بکوبد بر سرش  ** اشتها آید شراب احمرش 

  • And if He do not beat him, he will remain, like the jurist, with his mouth closed against the potations and festivity of these (spiritual) kings.
  • ور نکوبد ماند او بسته‌دهان  ** چون فقیه از شرب و بزم این شهان 

  • The king said to his cup-bearer, “O well-conducted (youth), why art thou silent? Give (it him) and put him in good humour.”
  • گفت شه با ساقیش ای نیک‌پی  ** چه خموشی ده به طبعش آر هی 

  • Over every mind there is a hidden Ruler, (who) cunningly diverts from his purpose whomsoever He will. 3935
  • هست پنهان حاکمی بر هر خرد  ** هرکه را خواهد به فن از سر برد 

  • The sun in the East and his radiance are bound like captives in His chain.
  • آفتاب مشرق و تنویر او  ** چون اسیران بسته در زنجیر او 

  • He causes the (celestial) sphere to revolve immediately when He chants half of a cunning spell in its brain.
  • چرخ را چرخ اندر آرد در زمن  ** چون بخواند در دماغش نیم فن 

  • The mind which dominates another mind has (obtains) the dice (of victory) from Him: He is the Master-player.
  • عقل کو عقل دگر را سخره کرد  ** مهره زو دارد ویست استاد نرد