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  • He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.
  • او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد ** تا که آب شور او را کور کرد

  • The Sea is saying, “Drink of my water with the right hand, O blind one, that thou mayst gain sight.”
  • بحر می‏گوید به دست راست خور ** ز آب من ای کور تا یابی بصر

  • Here “the right hand” is right opinion, which knows concerning (both) good and evil whence they are. 1120
  • هست دست راست اینجا ظن راست ** کاو بداند نیک و بد را کز کجاست‏

  • O lance, there is a Lancer, so that sometimes thou becomest straight, sometimes (bent) double.
  • نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو ** راست می‏گردی گهی گاهی دو تو

  • Through love of Shams-i Dín (the Sun of the Religion) I am without claws (powerless); else I would make that blind one see.
  • ما ز عشق شمس دین بی‏ناخنیم ** ور نه ما آن کور را بینا کنیم‏

  • Hark, O Light of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, do thou speedily heal him, to the confusion of the eye of the envious;
  • هان ضیاء الحق حسام الدین تو زود ** داروش کن کوری چشم حسود

  • (Heal him with) the quick-acting tutty of majesty, the darkness-killing remedy of the recalcitrant,
  • توتیای کبریای تیز فعل ** داروی ظلمت کش استیز فعل‏

  • Which, if it strike on the eye of the blind man, will dispel from him a hundred years' darkness. 1125
  • آن که گر بر چشم اعمی بر زند ** ظلمت صد ساله را زو بر کند

  • Heal all the blind ones except the envious man who from envy is bringing denial against thee.
  • جمله کوران را دوا کن جز حسود ** کز حسودی بر تو می‏آرد جحود

  • To thy envier, though it be I, do not give life, (but let me alone) so that I may be suffering the agony of (spiritual) death even as he is.
  • مر حسودت را اگر چه آن منم ** جان مده تا همچنین جان می‏کنم‏

  • (I mean) him that is envious of the Sun and him that is fretting at the existence of the Sun.
  • آن که او باشد حسود آفتاب ** و انکه می‏رنجد ز بود آفتاب‏

  • Look you, this is the incurable disease which he has, alas; look you, this is one fallen for ever to the bottom of the pit.
  • اینت درد بی‏دوا کاو راست آه ** اینت افتاده ابد در قعر چاه‏

  • What he wants is the extinction of the Sun of eternity. Tell (me), how should this desire of his come to pass? 1130
  • نفی خورشید ازل بایست او ** کی بر آید این مراد او بگو

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  • The falcon (seeker of God) is he that comes back to the King; he that has lost the way is the blind falcon.
  • باز آن باشد که باز آید به شاه ** باز کور است آن که شد گم کرده راه‏

  • It lost the way and fell into the wilderness; then in the wilderness it fell amongst owls.
  • راه را گم کرد و در ویران فتاد ** باز در ویران بر جغدان فتاد

  • It (the falcon) is wholly light (derived) from the Light of (Divine) approval, but the marshal, Fate, blinded it.
  • او همه نور است از نور رضا ** لیک کورش کرد سرهنگ قضا

  • He threw dust in its eyes and took it (far) away from the (right) road; he left it amidst owls and (in) the wilderness.
  • خاک در چشمش زد و از راه برد ** در میان جغد و ویرانش سپرد

  • To crown all, the owls attack it and tear its lovely wing-feathers and plumes. 1135
  • بر سری جغدانش بر سر می‏زنند ** پر و بال نازنینش می‏کنند

  • A clamour arose amongst the owls—“Ha! the falcon has come to seize our dwelling place.”
  • ولوله افتاد در جغدان که ها ** باز آمد تا بگیرد جای ما

  • (’Twas) as (when) the street-dogs, wrathful and terrible, have fallen upon the frock of a (dervish) stranger.
  • چون سگان کوی پر خشم و مهیب ** اندر افتادند در دلق غریب‏

  • “How am I fit,” says the falcon, “for (consorting with) owls? I give up to the owls a hundred wildernesses like this.
  • باز گوید من چه در خوردم به جغد ** صد چنین ویران فدا کردم به جغد

  • I do not wish to stay here, I am going, I will return to the King of kings.
  • من نخواهم بود اینجا می‏روم ** سوی شاهنشاه راجع می‏شوم‏

  • Do not kill yourselves (with agitation), O owls, for I am not settling (here): I am going home. 1140
  • خویشتن مکشید ای جغدان که من ** نه مقیمم می‏روم سوی وطن‏

  • This ruin is a thriving abode in your eyes; for me, however, the King's fore-arm is the place of delight.”
  • این خراب آباد در چشم شماست ** ور نه ما را ساعد شه باز جاست‏

  • The owl (that was warning the others) said, “The falcon is plotting to uproot you from house and home.
  • جغد گفتا باز حیلت می‏کند ** تا ز خان و مان شما را بر کند

  • He will seize our houses by cunning, he will tear us out of our nests by (his) hypocrisy.
  • خانه‏های ما بگیرد او به مکر ** بر کند ما را به سالوسی ز وکر

  • This devotee of guile pretends to be perfectly satisfied (with what he has); by God, he is worse than all the greedy together.
  • می‏نماید سیری این حیلت پرست ** و الله از جمله‏ی حریصان بدتر است‏

  • From greediness he eats clay as (if it were) date-syrup: O friends, do not entrust the sheep's tail to the bear. 1145
  • او خورد از حرص طین را همچو دبس ** دنبه مسپارید ای یاران به خرس‏

  • He is boasting of the King and the King's hand, in order that he may lead us astray, simple-minded as we are.
  • لاف از شه می‏زند وز دست شاه ** تا برد او ما سلیمان را ز راه‏

  • How, indeed, should a petty bird be the congener of the King? Do not listen to him, if you have (even) a little understanding.
  • خود چه جنس شاه باشد مرغکی ** مشنوش گر عقل داری اندکی‏

  • Is he the King's or the Vizier's congener? Is garlic at all suitable to sweetmeat made with walnut kernels?
  • جنس شاه است او و یا جنس وزیر ** هیچ باشد لایق لوزینه سیر

  • (As for) his saying, from deceit and feint and artifice, ‘The King with his retinue is searching after me,’
  • آن چه می‏گوید ز مکر و فعل و فن ** هست سلطان با حشم جویای من‏

  • Here's an absurd mad fancy for you, here's a vain boast and a snare to catch blockheads! 1150
  • اینت مالیخولیای ناپذیر ** اینت لاف خام و دام گول گیر

  • Any one who believes this—’tis because of (his) foolishness: how is a slender little bird fit for (friendship with) royalty?
  • هر که این باور کند از ابلهی است ** مرغک لاغر چه در خورد شهی است‏

  • If the smallest owl should strike at his brain, where is succour for him from the King?”
  • کمترین جغد ار زند بر مغز او ** مر و را یاری‏گری از شاه کو

  • The falcon said, “If a single feather of mine be broken, the King of kings will uproot the (whole) owlery.
  • گفت باز ار یک پر من بشکند ** بیخ جغدستان شهنشه بر کند

  • What is an owl? Even if a falcon vex my heart and maltreat me,
  • جغد چه بود خود اگر بازی مرا ** دل برنجاند کند با من جفا

  • The King will heap up in every lowland and highland hundreds of thousands of stacks of falcons' heads. 1155
  • شه کند توده به هر شیب و فراز ** صد هزاران خرمن از سرهای باز

  • His favours keep watch over me; wherever I go, the King is (following) behind.
  • پاسبان من عنایات وی است ** هر کجا که من روم شه در پی است‏

  • The phantasy of me is abiding in the King's heart: sick (would be) the King's heart without the phantasy of me.
  • در دل سلطان خیال من مقیم ** بی‏خیال من دل سلطان سقیم‏

  • When the King bids me fly in His Way I fly up to the heart's zenith, like His beams.
  • چون بپراند مرا شه در روش ** می‏پرم بر اوج دل چون پرتوش‏

  • I fly as a moon and sun, I rend the curtains of the skies.
  • همچو ماه و آفتابی می‏پرم ** پرده‏های آسمانها می‏درم‏

  • The light of intellects is from my thought; the bursting forth of heaven (into existence) is from my original nature. 1160
  • روشنی عقلها از فکرتم ** انفطار آسمان از فطرتم‏

  • I am a falcon, and (yet) the humá becomes lost in amazement at me: who is an owl, that it should know my secret?
  • بازم و حیران شود در من هما ** جغد که بود تا بداند سر ما

  • For my sake the King bethought him of the prison (this world), and set free hundreds of thousands of those in bondage.
  • شه برای من ز زندان یاد کرد ** صد هزاران بسته را آزاد کرد

  • He made me familiar with the owls for a moment, and by means of my breath (words) he made the owls (to be) falcons.
  • یک دمم با جغدها دمساز کرد ** از دم من جغدها را باز کرد

  • Oh, happy (is) the owl that in my (soaring) flight (towards God) had the good fortune to apprehend my mystery.
  • ای خنک جغدی که در پرواز من ** فهم کرد از نیک بختی راز من‏

  • Cling to me, that ye may become exultant (enjoying bliss), (and that) ye may become royal falcons, although ye are owls. 1165
  • در من آویزید تا نازان شوید ** گر چه جغدانید شهبازان شوید

  • He that is dear to such a King—wheresoever he light, why should he be a stranger?
  • آن که باشد با چنان شاهی حبیب ** هر کجا افتد چرا باشد غریب‏

  • Any one for whose pain the King is the remedy—though he wail like the reed (flute), he is not without plenty.
  • هر که باشد شاه دردش را دوا ** گر چو نی نالد نباشد بی‏نوا