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1030-1079

  • If the body of the Sultan is, in form (appearance), one (only), (yet) hundreds of thousands of soldiers run behind (it). 1030
  • جسم سلطان گر به صورت یک بود ** صد هزاران لشکرش در پی دود

  • Again, the figure and form of the excellent King are ruled by one invisible thought.
  • باز شکل و صورت شاه صفی ** هست محکوم یکی فکر خفی‏

  • Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;
  • خلق بی‏پایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین‏

  • Small is that thought in the people's eyes, but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.
  • هست آن اندیشه پیش خلق خرد ** لیک چون سیلی جهان را خورد و برد

  • So, when you see that from a thought every craft in the world (arises and) subsists—
  • پس چو می‏بینی که از اندیشه‏ای ** قایم است اندر جهان هر پیشه‏ای‏

  • (That) houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers, 1035
  • خانه‏ها و قصرها و شهرها ** کوهها و دشتها و نهرها

  • Earth and ocean as well as sun and sky, are living (derive their life) from it as fishes from the sea—
  • هم زمین و بحر و هم مهر و فلک ** زنده از وی همچو کز دریا سمک‏

  • Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought (only) as an ant?
  • پس چرا از ابلهی پیش تو کور ** تن سلیمان است و اندیشه چو مور

  • To your eye the mountain appears great: (to you) thought is like a mouse, and the mountain (like) a wolf.
  • می‏نماید پیش چشمت که بزرگ ** هست اندیشه چو موش و کوه گرگ‏

  • The (material) world in your eyes is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,
  • عالم اندر چشم تو هول و عظیم ** ز ابر و رعد و چرخ داری لرز و بیم‏

  • While in regard to the world of thought, O less (lower) than the ass, you are secure and indifferent as a witless stone, 1040
  • وز جهان فکرتی ای کم ز خر ** ایمن و غافل چو سنگ بی‏خبر

  • Because you are a (mere) shape and have no portion of intelligence; you are not of human nature, you are an ass's colt.
  • ز انکه نقشی وز خرد بی‏بهره‏ای ** آدمی خو نیستی خر کره‏ای‏

  • From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance: hence to you the substance has become a plaything and of slight account.
  • سایه را تو شخص می‏بینی ز جهل ** شخص از آن شد نزد تو بازی و سهل‏

  • Wait till the Day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any veil (encumbrance).
  • باش تا روزی که آن فکر و خیال ** بر گشاید بی‏حجابی پر و بال‏

  • You will see that the mountains have become soft as wool, (and that) this Earth of hot and cold has become naught;
  • کوهها بینی شده چون پشم نرم ** نیست گشته این زمین سرد و گرم‏

  • You will see neither the sky nor the stars nor (any) existence but God, the One, the Living, the Loving. 1045
  • نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود

  • Here is a tale, (be it) true or false, to illustrate (these) truths.
  • یک فسانه راست آمد یا دروغ ** تا دهد مر راستیها را فروغ‏

  • How the (King's) retainers envied the favourite slave.
  • حسد کردن حشم بر غلام خاص

  • A King had, of his grace, preferred a certain slave above all his retinue.
  • پادشاهی بنده‏ای را از کرم ** بر گزیده بود بر جمله حشم‏

  • His allowance was the stipend of forty Amírs; a hundred Viziers would not see (receive) a tenth of its amount.
  • جامگی او وظیفه‏ی چل امیر ** ده یک قدرش ندیدی صد وزیر

  • Through the perfection of (his) natal star and prosperity and fortune he was an Ayáz, while the King was the Mahmúd of the time.
  • از کمال طالع و اقبال و بخت ** او ایازی بود و شه محمود وقت‏

  • His spirit in its origin, before (the creation of) this body, was near-related and akin to the King's spirit. 1050
  • روح او با روح شه در اصل خویش ** پیش از این تن بوده هم پیوند و خویش‏

  • (Only) that matters which has existed before the body; leave (behind you) these things which have newly sprung into being.
  • کار آن دارد که پیش از تن بده ست ** بگذر از اینها که نو حادث شده ست‏

  • That which matters belongs to the knower (of God), for he is not squinting: his eye is (fixed) upon the things first sown.
  • کار عارف راست کاو نه احول است ** چشم او بر کشتهای اول است‏

  • That which was sown as wheat (good) or as barley (relatively evil)—day and night his eye is fastened on that place (where it was sown).
  • آن چه گندم کاشتندش و آن چه جو ** چشم او آن جاست روز و شب گرو

  • Night gave birth to nothing but what she was pregnant withal: designs and plots are wind, (empty) wind.
  • آنچ آبست است شب جز آن نزاد ** حیله‏ها و مکرها باد است باد

  • How should he please his heart with fair designs who sees the design of God (prevailing) over them? 1055
  • کی کند دل خوش به حیلتهای گش ** آن که بیند حیله‏ی حق بر سرش‏

  • He is within the snare (of God) and is laying a snare: by your life, neither that (snare) will escape (destruction) nor will this (man).
  • او درون دام دامی می‏نهد ** جان تو نه این جهد نه آن جهد

  • Though (in the meanwhile) a hundred herbs grow and fade, there will grow up at last that which God has sown.
  • گر بروید ور بریزد صد گیاه ** عاقبت بر روید آن کشته‏ی اله‏

  • He (the cunning man) sowed new seed over the first seed; (but) this second (seed) is passing away, and (only) the first is sound (and enduring).
  • کشت نو کارید بر کشت نخست ** این دوم فانی است و آن اول درست‏

  • The first seed is perfect and choice; the second seed is corrupt and rotten.
  • تخم اول کامل و بگزیده است ** تخم ثانی فاسد و پوسیده است‏

  • Cast away this contrivance of yours before the Beloved— though your contrivance indeed is of His contriving. 1060
  • افکن این تدبیر خود را پیش دوست ** گر چه تدبیرت هم از تدبیر اوست‏

  • That which God has raised (and that alone) has use: what He has at first sown at last grows.
  • کار آن دارد که حق افراشته ست ** آخر آن روید که اول کاشته ست‏

  • Whatever you sow, sow for His sake, inasmuch as you are the Beloved's captive, O lover.
  • هر چه کاری از برای او بکار ** چون اسیر دوستی ای دوستدار

  • Do not hang about the thievish fleshly soul and its work: whatsoever is not God's work is naught, naught.
  • گرد نفس دزد و کار او مپیچ ** هر چه آن نه کار حق هیچ است هیچ‏

  • (Sow the good seed) ere the Day of Resurrection shall appear and the night-thief be shamed before Him whose is the Kingdom,
  • پیش از آن که روز دین پیدا شود ** نزد مالک دزد شب رسوا شود

  • With the goods stolen by his contrivance and craft (still) remaining on his neck at the Day of Judgement. 1065
  • رخت دزدیده به تدبیر و فنش ** مانده روز داوری بر گردنش‏

  • Hundreds of thousands of minds may jump together (conspire) to lay a snare other than His snare;
  • صد هزاران عقل با هم بر جهند ** تا به غیر دام او دامی نهند

  • (But) they only find their snare more grievous (to themselves), (for) how can straws show any power (of resistance) against the wind?
  • دام خود را سخت‏تر یابند و بس ** کی نماید قوتی با باد خس‏

  • If you say, “What was the profit of (our created) being?” (I reply), “There is profit in your question, O contumacious one.
  • گر تو گویی فایده‏ی هستی چه بود ** در سؤالت فایده هست ای عنود

  • If this question of yours has no profit, why should we listen to it in vain and fruitlessly?
  • گر ندارد این سؤالت فایده ** چه شنویم این را عبث بی‏عایده‏

  • And if there are many profits in your question, then why, pray, is the world unprofitable? 1070
  • ور سؤالت را بسی فاییده‏هاست ** پس جهان بی‏فایده آخر چراست‏

  • And (again), if from one standpoint the world is unprofitable, from other standpoints it is advantageous.
  • ور جهان از یک جهت بی‏فایده ست ** از جهتهای دگر پر عایده ست‏

  • If your profit is no profit to me, (yet) since it is a profit to you, do not withdraw from it.”
  • فایده‏ی تو گر مرا فاییده نیست ** مر ترا چون فایده ست از وی مه ایست‏

  • The beauty of Joseph profited a (whole) world (of people), though to his brethren it was a vain superfluity.
  • حسن یوسف عالمی را فایده ** گر چه بر اخوان عبث بد زایده‏

  • The melodies of David were so dear (to the faithful), but to the interdicted (unbeliever) they were (no more than) the noise of wood.
  • لحن داودی چنان محبوب بود ** لیک بر محروم بانگ چوب بود

  • The water of the Nile was superior to the Water of Life, but to the interdicted and unbelieving it was blood. 1075
  • آب نیل از آب حیوان بد فزون ** لیک بر محروم و منکر بود خون‏

  • To the true believer martyrdom is life; to the hypocrite it is death and corruption.
  • هست بر مومن شهیدی زندگی ** بر منافق مردن است و ژندگی‏

  • Tell (me), what single blessing is there in the world, from which some group of people is not excluded?
  • چیست در عالم بگو یک نعمتی ** که نه محرومند از وی امتی‏

  • What profit have the ox and the ass in sugar? Every soul has a different food;
  • گاو و خر را فایده چه در شکر ** هست هر جان را یکی قوتی دگر

  • But if that food is accidental to it (and not according to its real nature), then admonition is the (proper) correction for it.
  • لیک گر آن قوت بر وی عارضی است ** پس نصیحت کردن او را رایضی است‏