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4843-4867

  • His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—
  • شکر او آن بود ای بنده‌ی جلیل  ** که شد او نمرود و سوزنده‌ی خلیل 

  • Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,
  • هم‌چنان کین شاه‌زاده شکر شاه  ** کرد استکبار و استکثار جاه 

  • Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?” 4845
  • که چرا من تابع غیری شوم  ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم 

  • (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—
  • لطف‌های شه که ذکر آن گذشت  ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت 

  • “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).
  • هم‌چنان نمرود آن الطاف را  ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی 

  • Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.
  • این زمان کافر شد و ره می‌زند  ** کبر و دعوی خدایی می‌کند 

  • By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,
  • رفته سوی آسمان با جلال  ** با سه کرکس تا کند با من قتال 

  • And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham; 4850
  • صد هزاران طفل بی‌تلویم را  ** کشته تا یابد وی ابراهیم را 

  • For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,
  • که منجم گفته کاندر حکم سال  ** زاد خواهد دشمنی بهر قتال 

  • (And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.
  • هین بکن در دفع آن خصم احتیاط  ** هر که می‌زایید می‌کشت از خباط 

  • (But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.
  • کوری او رست طفل وحی کش  ** ماند خون‌های دگر در گردنش 

  • Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?
  • از پدر یابید آن ملک ای عجب  ** تا غرورش داد ظلمات نسب 

  • (Nay); if father and mother were an obstacle (cause of delusion) to others, he derived the jewels in his pocket from Me.” 4855
  • دیگران را گر ام و اب شد حجاب  ** او ز ما یابید گوهرها به جیب 

  • Assuredly thy wicked carnal soul is a rapacious wolf: why art thou laying the blame on every comrade (neighbour)?
  • گرگ درنده‌ست نفس بد یقین  ** چه بهانه می‌نهی بر هر قرین 

  • In its misguidedness the foul disbelieving unconscionable carnal soul is (like) a cap for (concealing the diseased condition of) a hundred baldpates.
  • در ضلالت هست صد کل را کله  ** نفس زشت کفرناک پر سفه 

  • For this reason, O poor slave (of God), I am always saying, “Do not remove the collar from the neck of the cur.”
  • زین سبب می‌گویم این بنده‌ی فقیر  ** سلسله از گردن سگ برمگیر 

  • (Even) if this cur has become a teacher, it is a cur still: be thou one whose carnal soul is abased, for it is evil-natured.
  • گر معلم گشت این سگ هم سگست  ** باش ذلت نفسه کو بدرگست 

  • Thou wilt perform thy bounden duty if thou go round about (one like) Suhayl (Canopus, and absorb his light) as Tá’if hide (absorbs the rays), 4860
  • فرض می‌آری به جا گر طایفی  ** بر سهیلی چون ادیم طایفی 

  • In order that Suhayl may redeem thee from the vices of the skin (corporeality), and that thou mayst fit the foot of the Beloved like a boot.
  • تا سهیلت وا خرد از شر پوست  ** تا شوی چون موزه‌ای هم‌پای دوست 

  • The entire Qur’án is a description of the viciousness of carnal souls: look into the Holy Book! Where is thine eye?
  • جمله قرآن شرح خبث نفس‌هاست  ** بنگر اندر مصحف آن چشمت کجاست 

  • (’Tis) an account of the carnal soul of people like ‘Ád, which (whenever it) found weapons took the utmost pains to combat the prophets.
  • ذکر نفس عادیان کالت بیافت  ** در قتال انبیا مو می‌شکافت 

  • From generation to generation, the wickedness of the undisciplined carnal soul was the cause of the world being suddenly set on fire (by Divine wrath).
  • قرن قرن از شوم نفس بی‌ادب  ** ناگهان اندر جهان می‌زد لهب 

  • Returning to the Story of the prince who was smitten by a (mortal) blow from the heart of the King and departed from this world before he was fully endowed with the other (spiritual) excellences.
  • رجوع کردن بدان قصه کی شاه‌زاده بدان طغیان زخم خورد از خاطر شاه پیش از استکمال فضایل دیگر از دنیا برفت 

  • Abridge the tale: after a year (had passed) the indignation of that jealous one (the King of China) brought him (the prince) to the grave. 4865
  • قصه کوته کن که رای نفس کور  ** برد او را بعد سالی سوی گور 

  • When the King emerged from the state of self-effacement (mahw) into consciousness, (he found that) his martial eye had wrought that bloodshed.
  • شاه چون از محو شد سوی وجود  ** چشم مریخیش آن خون کرده بود 

  • When the peerless (King) looked at his quiver he perceived that one arrow was missing from his quiver.
  • چون به ترکش بنگرید آن بی‌نظیر  ** دید کم از ترکشش یک چوبه تیر