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1135-1184

  • 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

  • I am the owner of the (spiritual) kingdom, I am not a lickspittle: the King is beating the falcon-drum for me from the shore.
  • مالک ملکم نیم من طبل خوار ** طبل بازم می‏زند شه از کنار

  • My falcon-drum is the call, ‘Return!’ God is my witness in despite of adversary.
  • طبل باز من ندای ارجعی ** حق گواه من به رغم مدعی‏

  • I am not a congener of the King of kings—far be it from Him!—but I have light from Him in (His) self-manifestation. 1170
  • من نیم جنس شهنشه دور از او ** لیک دارم در تجلی نور از او

  • Homogeneity is not in respect of form and essence: water becomes homogeneous with earth in the plant.
  • نیست جنسیت ز روی شکل و ذات ** آب جنس خاک آمد در نبات‏

  • Wind (air) becomes homogeneous with fire in consistency; wine at last becomes homogeneous with the constitution (of the body).
  • باد جنس آتش آمد در قوام ** طبع را جنس آمده ست آخر مدام‏

  • Since my genus is not the genus of my King, my ego has passed away (faná) for the sake of His ego.
  • جنس ما چون نیست جنس شاه ما ** مای ما شد بهر مای او فنا

  • Inasmuch as my ego passed away, He remained alone: I roll at the feet of His horse, like dust.
  • چون فنا شد مای ما او ماند فرد ** پیش پای اسب او گردم چو گرد

  • The (individual) soul (self) became dust, and the (only) signs of it are the mark of His feet on its dust. 1175
  • خاک شد جان و نشانیهای او ** هست بر خاکش نشان پای او

  • Become dust at His feet for the sake of this mark, in order that you may become the crown on the head of the lofty.
  • خاک پایش شو برای این نشان ** تا شوی تاج سر گردن کشان‏

  • Let not my form beguile you: partake of my dessert before my departure.”
  • تا که نفریبد شما را شکل من ** نقل من نوشید پیش از نقل من‏

  • Oh, (there is) many a one whom the form waylaid: he aimed at the form (of the holy man) and (in reality) struck at God.
  • ای بسا کس را که صورت راه زد ** قصد صورت کرد و بر الله زد

  • After all, this soul is joined to the body, (but) has this soul any likeness to the body?
  • آخر این جان با بدن پیوسته است ** هیچ این جان با بدن مانند هست‏

  • The sparkle of the eye's light is paired with the fat; the light of the heart is hidden in a drop of blood; 1180
  • تاب نور چشم با پیه است جفت ** نور دل در قطره‏ی خونی نهفت‏

  • Joy (has its seat) in the kidneys, grief in the liver; intellect, (bright) as a candle, inside the brain in the head.
  • شادی اندر گرده و غم در جگر ** عقل چون شمعی درون مغز سر

  • These connexions are not without a how and a why, (but) as regards knowledge of the why (our) minds are impotent.
  • این تعلقها نه بی‏کیف است و چون ** عقلها در دانش چونی زبون‏

  • The Universal Soul came into contact with the partial (individual) soul, and the (latter) soul received from it a pearl and put it into its bosom.
  • جان کل با جان جزو آسیب کرد ** جان از او دری ستد در جیب کرد

  • Through that touch on its bosom the (individual) soul became pregnant, like Mary, with a heart-beguiling Messiah,
  • همچو مریم جان از آن آسیب جیب ** حامله شد از مسیح دل فریب‏