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2181-2230

  • When they had turned the Súfí away and he was gone, the enemy went after him with a stout cudgel.
  • چون به ره کردند صوفی را و رفت ** خصم شد اندر پیش با چوب زفت‏

  • “O dog,” he cried, “is it Súfism that of a sudden you come into my orchard in spite (of me)?
  • گفت ای سگ صوفیی باشد که تیز ** اندر آیی باغ ما تو از ستیز

  • Did Junayd or Báyazíd direct you to behave in this way? From what Shaykh and Pír did this (instruction) reach you?”
  • این جنیدت ره نمود و بایزید ** از کدامین شیخ و پیرت این رسید

  • He beat the Súfí when he found him alone; he half killed him and cracked his head.
  • کوفت صوفی را چو تنها یافتش ** نیم کشتش کرد و سر بشکافتش‏

  • Said the Súfí, “Mine is over, but O comrades, take good care of yourselves! 2185
  • گفت صوفی آن من بگذشت لیک ** ای رفیقان پاس خود دارید نیک‏

  • Ye regarded me as an alien. Look out! I am not more alien than this scoundrel.
  • مر مرا اغیار دانستید هان ** نیستم اغیارتر زین قلتبان‏

  • That (cup) which I have drunk must be drunk by you, and such a draught as this is the due of every cad.”
  • این چه من خوردم شما را خوردنی است ** وین چنین شربت جزای هر دنی است‏

  • This world is (like) the mountain, and (all) thy words come back to thee from the echo.
  • این جهان کوه است و گفت‏وگوی تو ** از صدا هم باز آید سوی تو

  • After the gardener had finished with the Súfí, he invented a pretext of the same kind as the former,
  • چون ز صوفی گشت فارغ باغبان ** یک بهانه کرد ز آن پس جنس آن‏

  • Saying, “O my Sharíf, go to the house, for I have baked (some) thin cakes of bread for breakfast. 2190
  • کای شریف من برو سوی وثاق ** که ز بهر چاشت پختم من رقاق‏

  • At the house-door tell Qaymáz to fetch those cakes and the goose.”
  • بر در خانه بگو قیماز را ** تا بیارد آن رقاق و قاز را

  • Having sent him off, he said (to the other), “O keen-sighted one, thou art a jurist; this is manifest and sure.
  • چون به ره کردش بگفت ای تیز بین ** تو فقیهی ظاهر است این و یقین‏

  • (But) he (thy friend) a Sharíf! ’Tis an absurd claim he is making. Who knows who committed adultery with his mother?
  • او شریفی می‏کند دعوی سرد ** مادر او را که داند تا که کرد

  • Will ye set your hearts (rely) on woman and the deeds of woman? (Will ye acknowledge her to be of) weak mind, and then (put) trust (in her)?
  • بر زن و بر فعل زن دل می‏نهید ** عقل ناقص و آن گهانی اعتماد

  • Many a fool in the world has tacked himself on to ‘Alí and the Prophet—and there is many a fool in the world (who will believe him).” 2195
  • خویشتن را بر علی و بر نبی ** بسته است اندر زمانه بس غبی‏

  • Whoever is (born) of adultery and (is one) of the adulterous will think this concerning the men of God.
  • هر که باشد از زنا و زانیان ** این برد ظن در حق ربانیان‏

  • Any one whose head is made giddy by (his own) gyrations sees the house turning round like himself.
  • هر که بر گردد سرش از چرخها ** همچو خود گردنده بیند خانه را

  • What that vain talker, the gardener, said was (indicative of) his (own) condition; (it was) far from (being applicable to) the descendants of the Prophet.
  • آن چه گفت آن باغبان بو الفضول ** حال او بد، دور از اولاد رسول‏

  • If he had not been the issue of apostates, how should he have spoken thus as regards (the Prophet's) House?
  • گر نبودی او نتیجه مرتدان ** کی چنین گفتی برای خاندان‏

  • He used spells (guileful words), and the jurist hearkened to them. (Then) that insolent bully went after him (the Sharíf). 2200
  • خواند افسونها شنید آن را فقیه ** در پیش رفت آن ستمکار سفیه‏

  • He said, “O ass, who invited you into this orchard? Has robbery been left to you as an inheritance by the Prophet?
  • گفت ای خر اندر این باغت که خواند ** دزدی از پیغمبرت میراث ماند

  • The lion's cub resembles him (the lion): in what do you resemble the Prophet? Tell (me that)!”
  • شیر را بچه همی‏ماند بدو ** تو به پیغمبر به چه مانی بگو

  • The man (the gardener) who had sought refuge (in craft) did to the Sharíf that which a Khárijite would do to the Family of Yá-sín (Mohammed).
  • با شریف آن کرد مرد ملتجی ** که کند با آل یاسین خارجی‏

  • (I marvel) what hatred devils and ghouls like Yazíd and Shimr always have towards the Prophet's Family.
  • تا چه کین دارند دایم دیو و غول ** چون یزید و شمر با آل رسول‏

  • The Sharíf was devastated by the blows of that ruffian. He said to the jurist, “W have jumped out of the water. 2205
  • شد شریف از زخم آن ظالم خراب ** با فقیه او گفت ما جستیم از آب‏

  • Do thou stand fast, now that thou art left alone and deprived (of our support). Be as a drum, suffer blows on the belly!
  • پای دار اکنون که ماندی فرد و کم ** چون دهل شو زخم می‏خور بر شکم‏

  • If I am not a Sharíf and worthy (of thee) and a (true) bosom-friend, (at any rate) I am no worse for thee than such a ruffian as this.”
  • گر شریف و لایق و هم دم نی‏ام ** از چنین ظالم تو را من کم نی‏ام‏

  • He (the gardener) finished with him (the Sharíf), and came up, saying, “O jurist, what (sort of) jurist are you, O you disgrace to every fool?
  • شد از او فارغ بیامد کای فقیه ** چه فقیهی ای تو ننگ هر سفیه‏

  • Is it your legal opinion, O convicted thief, that you may come (into my orchard) without asking leave?
  • فتوی‏ات این است ای ببریده دست ** کاندر آیی و نگویی امر هست‏

  • Have you read such a license in the Wasít, or has this question been (so decided) in the Muhít?” 2210
  • این چنین رخصت بخواندی در وسیط ** یا بدست این مسئله اندر محیط

  • “You are right,” he replied; “beat (me): you have got the upper hand. This is the fit penalty for him that parts from friends.”
  • گفت حق استت بزن دستت رسید ** این سزای آن که از یاران برید

  • Returning to the story of the sick man and the visit paid (to him) by the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace!
  • رجعت به قصه مریض و عیادت پیغامبر علیه السلام‏

  • This visiting of the sick is for the sake of this (spiritual) attachments, and this attachment is pregnant with a hundred lovingkindnesses.
  • این عیادت از برای این صله است ** وین صله از صد محبت حامله است‏

  • The peerless Prophet went to visit the sick man; he found that Companion at the last gasp.
  • در عیادت شد رسول بی‏ندید ** آن صحابی را به حال نزع دید

  • When you become far from the presence of the saints, you have in reality become far from God.
  • چون شوی دور از حضور اولیا ** در حقیقت گشته‏ای دور از خدا

  • Inasmuch as the result of parting from fellow-travellers is sorrow, how is separation from the countenance of the kings (saints) less (grievous) than that? 2215
  • چون نتیجه هجر همراهان غم است ** کی فراق روی شاهان ز آن کم است‏

  • Hasten every moment to seek the shadow (protection) of (those) kings, that by means of that shadow you may become superior to the sun.
  • سایه شاهان طلب هر دم شتاب ** تا شوی ز آن سایه بهتر ز آفتاب‏

  • If you have a journey (to make), go with this intention; and if it be (that you stay) at home, neglect not this.
  • گر سفر داری بدین نیت برو ** ور حضر باشد از این غافل مشو

  • How a certain Shaykh said to Báyazíd, “I am the Ka‘ba: perform a circumambulation round me.”
  • گفتن شیخی بایزید را که کعبه منم گرد من طوافی می‏کن‏

  • Báyazíd, the Shaykh of the community, was hurrying to Mecca for the greater pilgrimage (hajj) and the lesser (‘umra).
  • سوی مکه شیخ امت بایزید ** از برای حج و عمره می‏دوید

  • In every city to which he went he would at first make search after the venerable (saints).
  • او به هر شهری که رفتی از نخست ** مر عزیزان را بکردی باز جست‏

  • He would roam about, asking, “Who is there in the city that is relying on (spiritual) insight?” 2220
  • گرد می‏گشتی که اندر شهر کیست ** کاو بر ارکان بصیرت متکی‏است‏

  • God has said, “Whithersoever thou goest in thy travels, thou must first seek after a (holy) man.”
  • گفت حق اندر سفر هر جا روی ** باید اول طالب مردی شوی‏

  • Go in quest of a treasure, for (worldly) profit and loss come second: regard them as the branch (not as the root).
  • قصد گنجی کن که این سود و زیان ** در تبع آید تو آن را فرع دان‏

  • Whoever sows is in quest of wheat; the chaff comes to him indeed, (but only) secondarily.
  • هر که کارد قصد گندم باشدش ** کاه خود اندر تبع می‏آیدش‏

  • If you sow chaff, no wheat will come up: seek a man, seek a man, a man!
  • که بکاری بر نیاید گندمی ** مردمی جو مردمی جو مردمی‏

  • When it is the season of pilgrimage, go in quest of the Ka‘ba; when you have gone (with that purpose), Mecca also will be seen. 2225
  • قصد کعبه کن چو وقت حج بود ** چون که رفتی مکه هم دیده شود

  • In the Mi‘ráj (Ascension of the Prophet) the quest was (for) vision of the Beloved; ’twas but secondarily that the empyrean and the angels were also shown.
  • قصد در معراج دید دوست بود ** در تبع عرش و ملایک هم نمود

  • Story.
  • حکایت‏

  • A novice one day built a new house; the Pír came (and) saw his house.
  • خانه‏ی نو ساخت روزی نو مرید ** پیر آمد خانه‏ی او را بدید

  • The Shaykh said to his new disciple—he put to the test him that had good thoughts—
  • گفت شیخ آن نو مرید خویش را ** امتحان کرد آن نکو اندیش را

  • “Wherefore hast thou made a window, O comrade?” Said he, “In order that light may come in by this way.”
  • روزن از بهر چه کردی ای رفیق ** گفت تا نور اندر آید زین طریق‏

  • He (the Shaykh) said, “That is (only) the branch (secondary object); (thy) want (desire) must be this, (namely) that through this channel thou mayst hear the call to prayer.” 2230
  • گفت آن فرع است این باید نیاز ** تا از این ره بشنوی بانگ نماز