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935-959

  • O Reason, do not thou too step crookedly, lest that eclipse of (the bright) face befall (thee). 935
  • کژ منه ای عقل تو هم گام خویش  ** تا نیاید آن خسوف رو به پیش 

  • When (thy) sin is less, thou wilt see half the sun eclipsed and half radiant,
  • چون گنه کمتر بود نیم آفتاب  ** منکسف بینی و نیمی نورتاب 

  • For I punish thee in proportion to thy sin: this is the principle laid down for justice and retribution.
  • که به قدر جرم می‌گیرم ترا  ** این بود تقریر در داد و جزا 

  • Whether (thou art) good or bad or open or secret, I am He that overheareth and overseeth all things.”
  • خواه نیک و خواه بد فاش و ستیر  ** بر همه اشیا سمیعیم و بصیر 

  • Leave this topic, O father: New Year's Day is come: the creatures have had their mouths made sweet by the Creator.
  • زین گذر کن ای پدر نوروز شد  ** خلق از خلاق خوش پدفوز شد 

  • The spiritual Water (of Life) has returned into our river-bed, our King has returned into our street. 940
  • باز آمد آب جان در جوی ما  ** باز آمد شاه ما در کوی ما 

  • Fortune is strutting and (proudly) trailing her skirt and beating the drums (as a signal) to break vows of repentance.
  • می‌خرامد بخت و دامن می‌کشد  ** نوبت توبه شکستن می‌زند 

  • Once more the flood-water has swept repentance away: the opportunity has arrived, the watchman is overcome by sleep.
  • توبه را بار دگر سیلاب برد  ** فرصت آمد پاسبان را خواب برد 

  • Every toper has drunk the wine and is intoxicated: to-night we will pawn all our belongings.
  • هر خماری مست گشت و باده خورد  ** رخت را امشب گرو خواهیم کرد 

  • From (drinking) the ruby wine of the life-increasing Spirit we are ruby within ruby within ruby.
  • زان شراب لعل جان جان‌فزا  ** لعل اندر لعل اندر لعل ما 

  • Once more the assembly-place has become flourishing and heart-illuminating: arise and burn rue-seed to keep off the evil eye. 945
  • باز خرم گشت مجلس دلفروز  ** خیز دفع چشم بد اسپند سوز 

  • The cries of the joyous drunken (lovers) are coming to me: O Beloved, I want it (to continue) like this unto everlasting.
  • نعره‌ی مستان خوش می‌آیدم  ** تا ابد جانا چنین می‌بایدم 

  • Lo, a new moon (hilálí) has been united with a Bilál: the blows of the (scourge of) thorns have become (delightful) to him (as) roses and pomegranate-flowers.
  • نک هلالی با بلالی یار شد  ** زخم خار او را گل و گلزار شد 

  • (Bilál said), “If my body is (full of holes, like) a sieve from the blows of the (scourge of) thorns, (yet) my soul and body are a rose-garden of felicity.
  • گر ز زخم خار تن غربال شد  ** جان و جسمم گلشن اقبال شد 

  • My body is exposed to the blows of the Jew's (scourge of) thorns, (but) my spirit is intoxicated and enravished by that Loving One.
  • تن به پیش زخم خار آن جهود  ** جان من مست و خراب آن و دود 

  • The scent of a (beloved) Soul is coming towards my soul: the scent of my loving Friend is coming to me.” 950
  • بوی جانی سوی جانم می‌رسد  ** بوی یار مهربانم می‌رسد 

  • (When) Mustafá (Mohammed) came (to earth) from the Ascension, (he pronounced) on his Bilál (the blessing), “How dear to me (art thou), how dear!”
  • از سوی معراج آمد مصطفی  ** بر بلالش حبذا لی حبذا 

  • On hearing this (ecstatic utterance) from Bilál, in whose speech there was no guile, the Siddíq (Abú Bakr) washed his hands of urging him to repent.
  • چونک صدیق از بلال دم‌درست  ** این شنید از توبه‌ی او دست شست 

  • How the Siddíq (Abú Bakr), may God be pleased with him, recalled (to his mind) what had happened to Bilál, may God be pleased with him, and his maltreatment by the Jews and his crying “One! One!” and the Jews becoming more incensed (against him); and how he told the story of the affair to Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, and consulted him as to buying him (Bilál) from the Jews.
  • باز گردانیدن صدیق رضی الله عنه واقعه‌ی بلال را رضی الله عنه و ظلم جهودان را بر وی و احد احد گفتن او و افزون شدن کینه‌ی جهودان و قصه کردن آن قضیه پیش مصطفی علیه‌السلام و مشورت در خریدن او 

  • Afterwards the Siddíq related to Mustafá the plight of the faithful Bilál,
  • بعد از آن صدیق پیش مصطفی  ** گفت حال آن بلال با وفا 

  • Saying, “That heaven-surveying nimble (spirit) of blessed wing is at this time in love (with thee) and in thy net.
  • کان فلک‌پیمای میمون‌بال چست  ** این زمان در عشق و اندر دام تست 

  • The Sultan's falcon is tormented by those owls; that grand treasure is buried in filth. 955
  • باز سلطانست زان جغدان برنج  ** در حدث مدفون شدست آن زفت‌گنج 

  • The owls are doing violence to the falcon: they are tearing out his plumes and feathers though he is innocent.
  • جغدها بر باز استم می‌کنند  ** پر و بالش بی‌گناهی می‌کنند 

  • His only crime is this, that he is a falcon: after all, what is Joseph's crime except (that he had) beauty?
  • جرم او اینست کو بازست و بس  ** غیر خوبی جرم یوسف چیست پس 

  • The owl's origin and existence is (in) the wilderness; that is the cause of their Jewish (fanatical) anger against the falcon.
  • جغد را ویرانه باشد زاد و بود  ** هستشان بر باز زان زخم جهود 

  • (They say), ‘Why art thou (always) making mention of yonder land, or of the palace and wrist of the Emperor?
  • که چرا می یاد آری زان دیار  ** یا ز قصر و ساعد آن شهریار