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  • Fear and hunger and impairment of wealth and body—all for the sake of the soul's coin being brought into sight (and use).
  • خوف و جوع و نقص اموال و بدن ** جمله بهر نقد جان ظاهر شدن‏

  • These threats and promises He hath sent forth on account of this good and evil which He hath mingled. 2965
  • این وعید و وعده‏ها انگیخته ست ** بهر این نیک و بدی کامیخته ست‏

  • Inasmuch as truth and falsehood have been mingled, and the good and bad coin have been poured into the travelling-bag,
  • چون که حق و باطلی آمیختند ** نقد و قلب اندر حرمدان ریختند

  • Therefore they need a picked touchstone, one that has undergone (many) tests in (assaying) realities,
  • پس محک می‏بایدش بگزیده‏ای ** در حقایق امتحانها دیده‏ای‏

  • So that it may become a criterion for these impostures; so that it may be a standard for these acts of providence.
  • تا شود فاروق این تزویرها ** تا بود دستور این تدبیرها

  • Give him milk, O mother of Moses, and cast him into the water: be not afraid of (putting him to) the trial.
  • شیر ده ای مادر موسی و را ** و اندر آب افکن میندیش از بلا

  • Whoever drank that milk on the Day of Alast distinguishes the milk (in this world), even as Moses (distinguished and knew his mother's milk). 2970
  • هر که در روز أ لست آن شیر خورد ** همچو موسی شیر را تمییز کرد

  • If thou wishest fondly for thy child's discrimination (and recognition), suckle (him) now, O mother of Moses,
  • گر تو بر تمییز طفلت مولعی ** این زمان یا ام موسی ارضعی‏

  • That he may know the taste of his mother's milk, and that his head may not sink to (desire and accept the milk of) a bad nurse.
  • تا ببیند طعم شیر مادرش ** تا فرو ناید بدایه‏ی بد سرش‏

  • Explaining the moral of the story of the person seeking (the lost) camel.
  • شرح فایده‏ی حکایت آن شخص شتر جوینده‏

  • You have lost a camel, O trusty (friend), and every one is giving you a clue to the camel.
  • اشتری گم کرده‏ای ای معتمد ** هر کسی ز اشتر نشانت می‏دهد

  • You know not where the camel is, but you know that these clues are wrong.
  • تو نمی‏دانی که آن اشتر کجاست ** لیک دانی کاین نشانیها خطاست‏

  • And he that has not lost a camel—he (too) in contention seeks a camel, just like him who has (really) lost it, 2975
  • و انکه اشتر گم نکرد او از مری ** همچو آن گم کرده جوید اشتری‏

  • Saying, “Yes; I too have lost a camel: I have brought a reward for any one who may find it.”
  • که بلی من هم شتر گم کرده‏ام ** هر که یابد اجرتش آورده‏ام‏

  • (He says this) that he may take a partner's share with you in the camel: he plays this trick because of coveting the camel.
  • تا در اشتر با تو انبازی کند ** بهر طمع اشتر این بازی کند

  • If you say to any one, “That clue was false,” he (the pretender), in imitation of you, says the same.
  • هر چه را گویی خطا بود آن نشان ** او به تقلید تو می‏گوید همان‏

  • He does not know wrong clues from right, but your words are a cue to that imitator.
  • او نشان کژ بنشناسد ز راست ** لیک گفتت آن مقلد را عصاست‏

  • When they mention right and likely clues, then comes to you the certainty in which there is no doubt. 2980
  • چون نشان راست گویند و شبیه ** پس یقین گردد ترا لا ریب فیه‏

  • That (clue) becomes balm to your sick soul; it becomes (brings) colour to your face and health and strength to you.
  • آن شفای جان رنجورت شود ** رنگ روی و صحت و زورت شود

  • Your eye becomes bright, your foot nimble; your body becomes (the vital) soul, and your (vital) soul (the rational) spirit.
  • چشم تو روشن شود پایت دوان ** جسم تو جان گردد و جانت روان‏

  • Then you will say, “O trusted (friend), you have spoken the truth: these clues are a clear deliverance (communication and message).
  • پس بگویی راست گفتی ای امین ** این نشانیها بلاغ آمد مبین‏

  • Therein are (manifest) signs, sure informations, (distinct) evidences: this is a title-deed and an ordainment of salvation.”
  • فیه آیات ثقات بینات ** این براتی باشد و قدر نجات‏

  • When he has given this clue, you will say, “Go before (me)! It is time for (setting out on) the enterprise: be thou the leader! 2985
  • این نشان چون داد گویی پیش رو ** وقت آهنگ است پیش آهنگ شو

  • I will follow thee, O truth-teller: thou hast got scent of my camel: show (me) where (it is).”
  • پی روی تو کنم ای راست گو ** بوی بردی ز اشترم بنما که کو

  • (But) to that person who is not the owner of a camel, and who is (engaged) in this quest of the camel for contention's sake—
  • پیش آن کس که نه صاحب اشتری ست ** کاو در این جست شتر بهر مری ست‏

  • His certainty is not increased by this right clue, save through reflexion from the true camel-seeker.
  • زین نشان راست نفزودش یقین ** جز ز عکس ناقه جوی راستین‏

  • From his (the latter's) earnestness and ardour he (the imitator) gets a scent (inkling) that these wild outcries of his are not (mere) babble.
  • بوی برد از جد و گرمیهای او ** که گزافه نیست این هیهای او

  • He (the imitator) had no just claim to this camel, but he too has lost a camel; yes, (he has). 2990
  • اندر این اشتر نبودش حق ولی ** اشتری گم کرده است او هم بلی‏

  • Desire for another's camel has become a veil to him, (so that) he has forgotten what he (himself) has lost.
  • طمع ناقه‏ی غیر رو پوشش شده ** آنچ ازو گم شد فراموشش شده‏

  • Wherever he (the owner) runs, this one (the imitator) runs: from cupidity, he becomes a partner in the owner's pain.
  • هر کجا او می‏دود این می‏دود ** از طمع هم درد صاحب می‏شود

  • When a liar sets out (to journey) with a truthful man, his falsehood turns to truth of a sudden.
  • کاذبی یا صادقی چون شد روان ** آن دروغش راستی شد ناگهان‏

  • In the desert whither that camel had hastened, the other one (the imitator) also found his own camel.
  • اندر آن صحرا که آن اشتر شتافت ** اشتر خود نیز آن دیگر بیافت‏

  • As soon as he saw it, he remembered his own, and ceased to covet the camel of that friend and kinsman. 2995
  • چون بدیدش یاد آورد آن خویش ** بی‏طمع شد ز اشتر آن یار و خویش‏

  • That imitator became a true searcher when he saw his camel browsing there.
  • آن مقلد شد محقق چون بدید ** اشتر خود را که آن جا می‏چرید

  • (Only) at that moment did he become a seeker of the camel: he was never (truly) seeking it till he saw it in the desert.
  • او طلب کار شتر آن لحظه گشت ** می‏نجستش تا ندید او را به دشت‏

  • After that, he began to go alone: he opened his eyes (and went) towards his own camel.
  • بعد از آن تنها روی آغاز کرد ** چشم سوی ناقه‏ی خود باز کرد

  • The sincere one said, “You have left me, (although) till now you were paying regard to me.”
  • گفت آن صادق مرا بگذاشتی ** تا به اکنون پاس من می‏داشتی‏

  • He replied, “Hitherto I have been an idle scoffer and, from cupidity, have been (engaged) in flattering (thee); 3000
  • گفت تا اکنون فسوسی بوده‏ام ** وز طمع در چاپلوسی بوده‏ام‏

  • (But) now, when corporeally I have become parted from thee in the search, I have become sympathetic with thee (in spirit).
  • این زمان هم درد تو گشتم که من ** در طلب از تو جدا گشتم به تن‏

  • I was stealing the camel's description from thee; (but when) my spirit saw its own camel, it had its eye filled (with seeing).
  • از تو می‏دزدیدمی وصف شتر ** جان من دید آن خود شد چشم پر

  • Till I found it, I was not seeking it; now the copper is overcome, the gold overpowers it.
  • تا نیابیدم نبودم طالبش ** مس کنون مغلوب شد زر غالبش‏

  • My evil deeds have become pious acts entirely—thanks (to God)! Jest is vanished and earnest is realised—thanks (to God)!
  • سیئاتم شد همه طاعات شکر ** هزل شد فانی و جد اثبات شکر

  • Since my evil deeds have become the means of (my) attaining unto God, do not, then, throw any blame on my evil deeds. 3005
  • سیئاتم چون وسیلت شد به حق ** پس مزن بر سیئاتم هیچ دق‏

  • Thee thy sincerity had made a seeker; for me, toil and search opened (the way to) a sincere feeling.
  • مر ترا صدق تو طالب کرده بود ** مر مرا جد و طلب صدقی گشود

  • Thy sincerity led thee to seek; my seeking led me to a feeling of sincerity.
  • صدق تو آورد در جستن ترا ** جستنم آورد در صدقی مرا

  • I was sowing the seed of fortune in the earth, (though) I fancied it was labour without wages and hire.
  • تخم دولت در زمین می‏کاشتم ** سخره و بیگار می‏پنداشتم‏

  • ’Twas not labour without hire; ’twas an excellent earning: (for) every grain that I sowed, a hundred grew.
  • آن نبد بیگار کسبی بود چست ** هر یکی دانه که کشتم صد برست‏

  • The thief went underhand (by stealth) to a certain house: when he entered, he saw that it was his own house.” 3010
  • دزد سوی خانه‏ای شد زیر دست ** چون در آمد دید کان خانه‏ی خود است‏

  • Be hot, O cold one, that heat may come: put up with roughness, that ease may come.
  • گرم باش ای سرد تا گرمی رسد ** با درشتی ساز تا نرمی رسد

  • That (subject of my discourse) is not two camels; it is a single camel. Verbal expression is confined, the meaning (to be expressed) is very full.
  • آن دو اشتر نیست آن یک اشتر است ** تنگ آمد لفظ معنی بس پر است‏

  • The expression always fails to reach the meaning; hence the Prophet said, “(Whoso knows God), his tongue falters.”
  • لفظ در معنی همیشه نارسان ** ز آن پیمبر گفت قد کل لسان‏