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2658-2707

  • Truly, the magnitude of the empyrean is very great, but who (what) is form when reality has arrived?
  • خود بزرگی عرش باشد بس مدید ** لیک صورت کیست چون معنی رسید

  • Every angel was saying (to Adam), ‘Before this (time) we had a friendship (with thee) on the face of the earth.
  • هر ملک می‌‌گفت ما را پیش از این ** الفتی می‌‌بود بر گرد زمین‌‌

  • On the earth we were sowing the seed of service (worship): we were marveling at that connexion, 2660
  • تخم خدمت بر زمین می‌‌کاشتیم ** ز آن تعلق ما عجب می‌‌داشتیم‌‌

  • Marvelling what connexion we had with this dust, inasmuch as our nature is of heaven.
  • کاین تعلق چیست با این خاکمان ** چون سرشت ما بده ست از آسمان‌‌

  • (We said), Why (this) friendship in us, who are light, with darkness? How can light live with darkness?
  • الف ما انوار با ظلمات چیست ** چون تواند نور با ظلمات زیست‌‌

  • O Adam, that friendship was owing to the scent of thee, because earth was the woof and warp of thy body.
  • آدما آن الف از بوی تو بود ** ز آن که جسمت را زمین بد تار و پود

  • From this place (the earth) thy earthly body was woven, in this place thy pure light was found.
  • جسم خاکت را از اینجا بافتند ** نور پاکت را در اینجا یافتند

  • This (light) that our souls have obtained from thy spirit shone erstwhile from the dust. 2665
  • این که جان ما ز روحت یافته ست ** پیش پیش از خاک آن می‌‌تافته ست‌‌

  • We were in the earth, and heedless of the earth, heedless of the treasure that lay buried there.
  • در زمین بودیم و غافل از زمین ** غافل از گنجی که در وی بد دفین‌‌

  • When He (God) bade us journey from that place of abode our palates were soured (we were bitterly grieved) by the change,
  • چون سفر فرمود ما را ز آن مقام ** تلخ شد ما را از آن تحویل کام‌‌

  • So that we were arguing (and saying), ‘O God, who will come in our stead?
  • تا که حجتها همی‌‌گفتیم ما ** که بجای ما کی آید ای خدا

  • Wilt Thou sell the splendour of the praise with which we glorify and magnify Thee for babble and palaver?’
  • نور این تسبیح و این تهلیل را ** می‌‌فروشی بهر قال و قیل را

  • The decree of God spread for us the carpet (of indulgence), (and He said), ‘Speak ye, in the way of boldness 2670
  • حکم حق گسترد بهر ما بساط ** که بگویید از طریق انبساط

  • (And) without fear, whatever comes upon your tongues, like only children with their father;
  • هر چه آید بر زبانتان بی‌‌حذر ** همچو طفلان یگانه با پدر

  • For what if these words (of yours) are unseemly? My mercy likewise is prior (superior) to My wrath.
  • ز آن که این دمها چه گر نالایق است ** رحمت من بر غضب هم سابق است‌‌

  • In order to manifest this priority, O angel, I will put in thee incitement to perplexity and doubt,
  • از پی اظهار این سبق ای ملک ** در تو بنهم داعیه‌‌ی اشکال و شک‌‌

  • That thou mayst speak and I not take offence at thee, (so that) none who denies My clemency may dare to utter a word.
  • تا بگویی و نگیرم بر تو من ** منکر حلمم نیارد دم زدن‌‌

  • Within My (infinite) clemency (the clemencies of) a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers at every moment are born and vanish. 2675
  • صد پدر صد مادر اندر حلم ما ** هر نفس زاید در افتد در فنا

  • Their clemency is (but) the foam of the sea of My clemency: the foam comes and goes, but the sea is (always) there.’’
  • حلم ایشان کف بحر حلم ماست ** کف رود آید ولی دریا به جاست‌‌

  • What indeed shall I say? Compared with that pearl (Divine clemency) this oyster-shell (human clemency) is naught but the foam of the foam of the foam of foam.
  • خود چه گویم پیش آن در این صدف ** نیست الا کف کف کف کف‌‌

  • By the truth of that foam, by the truth of that pure sea, (I swear) that these words (of mine) are not (meant to make) trial of thee and are not vain.
  • حق آن کف حق آن دریای صاف ** که امتحانی نیست این گفت و نه لاف‌‌

  • They are from (inspired by) love and sincerity and humbleness, (I swear) by the truth of that One to whom I turn.
  • از سر مهر و صفاء است و خضوع ** حق آن کس که بدو دارم رجوع‌‌

  • If this affection (which I am showing) seems to thee a trial, do thou for one moment put the (supposed) trial (of thee) to the test. 2680
  • گر به پیشت امتحان است این هوس ** امتحان را امتحان کن یک نفس‌‌

  • Do not hide thy secret (but reveal it), in order that mine may be revealed: command anything that I am able to do.
  • سر مپوشان تا پدید آید سرم ** امر کن تو هر چه بر وی قادرم‌‌

  • Do not hide thy heart (but reveal it), in order that mine may be revealed and that I may accept whatever I am capable of (performing).
  • دل مپوشان تا پدید آید دلم ** تا قبول آرم هر آن چه قابلم‌‌

  • How shall I do? What remedy is in my power? Look what a plight my soul is in.”
  • چون کنم در دست من چه چاره است ** در نگر تا جان من چه کاره است‌‌

  • How the wife specified to her husband the way to earn daily bread and how he accepted (her proposal).
  • تعیین کردن زن طریق طلب روزی کدخدای خود را و قبول کردن او

  • The wife said, “A sun has shone forth, a (whole) world has received light from him—
  • گفت زن یک آفتابی تافته ست ** عالمی زو روشنایی یافته ست‌‌

  • The Vicar of the Merciful (God), the Khalífa of the Creator: through him the city of Baghdád is (gay and happy) as the season of spring. 2685
  • نایب رحمان خلیفه‌‌ی کردگار ** شهر بغداد است از وی چون بهار

  • If thou gain access to that King, thou wilt become a king: how long wilt thou go after every (kind of) misfortune?”
  • گر بپیوندی بدان شه شه شوی ** سوی هر ادبار تا کی می‌‌روی‌‌

  • Companionship with kings is like the Elixir: indeed, how is an Elixir like (to be compared with) their looks (of favour)?
  • همنشینی مقبلان چون کیمیاست ** چون نظرشان کیمیایی خود کجاست‌‌

  • The eye of Ahmad (Mohammed) was cast upon an Abú Bakr: he by a single act of faith became a Siddíq.
  • چشم احمد بر ابو بکری زده ** او ز یک تصدیق صدیق آمده‌‌

  • Said the husband, “How should I go to meet the King? How should I go to him without a pretext?
  • گفت من شه را پذیرا چون شوم ** بی‌‌بهانه سوی او من چون روم‌‌

  • I must have some reference or device: is any handicraft right (possible) without tools? 2690
  • نسبتی باید مرا یا حیلتی ** هیچ پیشه راست شد بی‌‌آلتی‌‌

  • As (to mention a similar case) the famous Majnún, when he heard from some one that Laylá was a little unwell,
  • همچو آن مجنون که بشنید از یکی ** که مرض آمد به لیلی اندکی‌‌

  • Cried, ‘Ah, how shall I go (to her) without a pretext? And if I fail to visit her when she is ill, how (wretched) shall I be!
  • گفت آوه بی‌‌بهانه چون روم ** ور بمانم از عیادت چون شوم‌‌

  • Would that I were a skilled physician! I would have gone on foot to Laylá first of all (before any one else).’
  • لیتنی کنت طبیبا حاذقا ** کنت أمشی نحو لیلی سابقا

  • God said to us, ‘Say, Come ye,’ in order to signify to us the (means of) vanquishing our feeling of shame.
  • قل تعالوا گفت حق ما را بدان ** تا بود شرم اشکنی ما را نشان‌‌

  • If bats had sight and means (ability to bear the sunshine), they would fly about and enjoy themselves by day.” 2695
  • شب پران را گر نظر و آلت بدی ** روزشان جولان و خوش حالت بدی‌‌

  • The wife said, “When the gracious King goes into the field (maydán), the essence of every lack of means (inability) becomes a means (ability),
  • گفت چون شاه کرم میدان رود ** عین هر بی‌‌آلتی آلت شود

  • Because the means (ability) is (involves) pretension and self-existence: the (pith of the) matter lies in lack of means (inability) and non-existence.”
  • ز آن که آلت دعوی است و هستی است ** کار در بی‌‌آلتی و پستی است‌‌

  • “How,” said he, “should I do business without means, unless I make it manifest that I (really) have no means?
  • گفت کی بی‌‌آلتی سودا کنم ** تا نه من بی‌‌آلتی پیدا کنم‌‌

  • Therefore I must needs have attestation of my want of means, that the King who wants naught may take pity on me.
  • پس گواهی بایدم بر مفلسی ** تا شهم رحمی کند یا مونسی‌‌

  • Do thou produce some attestation besides talk and show, so that the beauteous King may take pity, 2700
  • تو گواهی غیر گفت‌‌وگو و رنگ ** وانما تا رحم آرد شاه شنگ‌‌

  • For the testimony that consisted of talk and show was (ever) invalidated before that Supreme Judge.
  • کاین گواهی که ز گفت و رنگ بد ** نزد آن قاضی القضاة آن جرح شد

  • He requires truth (veracity) as witness to his (the indigent man's) state, so that his (inner) light shall shine forth (and proclaim his indigence) without any words of his.”
  • صدق می‌‌خواهد گواه حال او ** تا بتابد نور او بی‌‌قال او

  • How the Arab carried a jug of rain-water from the midst of the desert as a gift to the Commander of the Faithful at Baghdád, in the belief that in that town also there was a scarcity of water.
  • هدیه بردن عرب سبوی آب باران از میان بادیه سوی بغداد به نزد خلیفه بر پنداشت آن که آن جا هم قحط آب است‌‌

  • The wife said, “When with all thy might thou dost (endeavour to) rise up entirely purged of self-existence—that is veracity.
  • گفت زن صدق آن بود کز بود خویش ** پاک برخیزی تو از مجهود خویش‌‌

  • We have the rain-water in the jug: ’tis thy property and capital and means.
  • آب باران است ما را در سبو ** ملکت و سرمایه و اسباب تو

  • Take this jug of water and depart, make it a gift and go into the presence of the King of kings. 2705
  • این سبوی آب را بردار و رو ** هدیه ساز و پیش شاهنشاه شو

  • Say, ‘We have no means except this: in the desert there is nothing better than this water.’
  • گو که ما را غیر این اسباب نیست ** در مفازه هیچ به زین آب نیست‌‌

  • If his treasury is full of splendid merchandise, (yet) he will have no water like this: ’tis rare.”
  • گر خزینه‌‌ش پر متاع فاخر است ** این چنین آبش نباشد نادر است‌‌