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439-488

  • The Shaykh said, “I forgive all that talk and palaver: it is lawful to you.
  • شیخ فرمود آن همه گفتار و قال ** من بحل کردم شما را آن حلال‏
  • The secret of this (matter) was that I besought God: consequently He showed me the right way, 440
  • سر این آن بود کز حق خواستم ** لاجرم بنمود راه راستم‏
  • And said, ‘Though that dinar is little, yet (the payment of) it is dependent on the boy's outcry.
  • گفت آن دینار اگر چه اندک است ** لیک موقوف غریو کودک است‏
  • Until the halwá-selling boy weeps, the sea of (My) mercy is not aroused’.”
  • تا نگرید کودک حلوا فروش ** بحر رحمت در نمی‏آید به جوش‏
  • O brother, the child (boy) is the child (pupil) of your eye: know surely that (the gaining of) your desire is dependent on (tears of) distress.
  • ای برادر طفل طفل چشم تست ** کام خود موقوف زاری دان درست‏
  • If you wish that that robe of honour (which you desire) should come (to you), then make the child (pupil) of your eye weep over your body.
  • گر همی‏خواهی که آن خلعت رسد ** پس بگریان طفل دیده بر جسد
  • How a certain person frightened an ascetic, saying, “Weep little, lest thou become blind.”
  • ترسانیدن شخصی زاهد را که کم گری تا کور نشوی
  • A comrade in the work (of religion) said to an ascetic, “Weep little, lest thine eye come to harm.” 445
  • زاهدی را گفت یاری در عمل ** کم گری تا چشم را ناید خلل‏
  • The ascetic said, “The case is not outside of (admits only) two (alternatives): the eye will see, or it will not see, that (Divine) Beauty.
  • گفت زاهد از دو بیرون نیست حال ** چشم بیند یا نبیند آن جمال‏
  • If it see the Light of God, what is there to grieve about? How little are two eyes (to him that is) in union with God!
  • گر ببیند نور حق خود چه غم است ** در وصال حق دو دیده چه کم است‏
  • And if it shall not see God, let it go! Let such a miserable eye become blind!”
  • ور نخواهد دید حق را گو برو ** این چنین چشم شقی گو کور شو
  • Do not grieve for your eye when that Jesus is yours; do not go to the left (but to the right), that he may give you two right (sound) eyes.
  • غم مخور از دیده کان عیسی تراست ** چپ مرو تا بخشدت دو چشم راست‏
  • The Jesus of your spirit is present with you: beg aid from him, for he is a goodly aider; 450
  • عیسی روح تو با تو حاضر است ** نصرت از وی خواه کاو خوش ناصر است‏
  • But do not every moment lay on the heart of (that) Jesus the unprofitable work of (providing for) a body full of bones,
  • لیک بیگار تن پر استخوان ** بر دل عیسی منه تو هر زمان‏
  • Like the fool whom we mentioned in the story for the sake of the righteous.
  • همچو آن ابله که اندر داستان ** ذکر او کردیم بهر راستان‏
  • Seek not you from your Jesus the life of the body, ask not from your Moses the wish of a Pharaoh.
  • زندگی تن مجو از عیسی‏ات ** کام فرعونی مخواه از موسی‏ات‏
  • Burden not your heart with thoughts of livelihood; livelihood will not fail: be (constant in attendance) at the (Divine) Court.
  • بر دل خود کم نه اندیشه‏ی معاش ** عیش کم ناید تو بر درگاه باش‏
  • This body is a tent for the spirit, or like an ark for Noah. 455
  • این بدن خرگاه آمد روح را ** یا مثال کشتیی مر نوح را
  • When the Turcoman is there, he will find a tent, especially when he is one held in honour at the Court (of God).
  • ترک چون باشد بیابد خرگهی ** خاصه چون باشد عزیز درگهی‏
  • Conclusion of the story of the coming to life of the bones at the prayer of Jesus, on whom be peace!
  • تمامی قصه‏ی زنده شدن استخوانها به دعای عیسی علیه السلام
  • Jesus pronounced the Name of God over the bones on account of the young man’s entreaty.
  • خواند عیسی نام حق بر استخوان ** از برای التماس آن جوان‏
  • For the sake of that foolish man the decree of God gave life to the form which those bones had possessed.
  • حکم یزدان از پی آن خام مرد ** صورت آن استخوان را زنده کرد
  • A black lion sprang forth, smote once with its paw, and destroyed his (bodily) image.
  • از میان بر جست یک شیر سیاه ** پنجه‏ای زد کرد نقشش را تباه‏
  • It tore up his skull: his brain was scattered on the spot-the brain (kernel) of a nut, for in him was no brain. 460
  • کله‏اش بر کند مغزش ریخت زود ** مغز جوزی کاندر او مغزی نبود
  • If he had had a brain, his being broken to pieces would have been no injury at all except to his body.
  • گر و را مغزی بدی اشکستنش ** خود نبودی نقص الا بر تنش‏
  • Jesus said (to the lion), “How did you maul him so quickly?” The lion said, “Because thou wert troubled by him.”
  • گفت عیسی چون شتابش کوفتی ** گفت ز آن رو که تو زو آشوفتی‏
  • Jesus asked, “How did not you drink the man’s blood?”  “In the (Divine) dispensation ‘twas not granted to me to drink (it),” replied the lion.
  • گفت عیسی چون نخوردی خون مرد ** گفت در قسمت نبودم رزق خورد
  • Oh, many a one that like that raging lion has departed from the world without having eaten his prey!
  • ای بسا کس همچو آن شیر ژیان ** صید خود ناخورده رفته از جهان‏
  • His (ordained portion is not (even) a straw, while his greed is as (great as) a mountain; he hat no means (of satisfying his desires), though he has gotten the (material) means. 465
  • قسمتش کاهی نه و حرصش چو کوه ** وجه نه و کرده تحصیل وجوه‏
  • O Thou who hast made it easy for us to do unrewarded and fruitless labour in the world, deliver us!
  • ای میسر کرده بر ما در جهان ** سخره و بیگار ما را وارهان‏
  • To us it seems a (tempting) bait and ‘tis (really) a hook: show it to us even as it is.
  • طعمه بنموده به ما و آن بوده شست ** آن چنان بنما به ما آن را که هست‏
  • The lion said, “O Messiah, (my killing) this prey was merely for the purpose that warning might be taken (by others).
  • گفت آن شیر ای مسیحا این شکار ** بود خالص از برای اعتبار
  • Had there (still) been for me in the world an allotted portion (of food), what business indeed should I have had with the dead?”
  • گر مرا روزی بدی اندر جهان ** خود چه کاراستی مرا با مردگان‏
  • This is the punishment deserved by him that finds pure water, and like an ass stales impertinently in the stream. 470
  • این سزای آن که یابد آب صاف ** همچو خر در جو بمیزد از گزاف‏
  • If the ass know the value of the stream, instead of his foot he will pull his head in it.
  • گر بداند قیمت آن جوی خر ** او بجای پا نهد در جوی سر
  • He (the fool) finds a prophet like that, a lord of the (life-giving) Water, a cherisher of life:
  • او بیابد آن چنان پیغمبری ** میر آبی زندگانی پروری‏
  • How does not he die before him, saying, “O lord of the Water, make me living by the command ‘Be’?
  • چون نمیرد پیش او کز امر کن ** ای امیر آب ما را زنده کن‏
  • Take heed! Do not wish your currish (fleshy) soul alive, for it is the enemy of your spirit since long ago.
  • هین سگ نفس ترا زنده مخواه ** کاو عدوی جان تست از دیرگاه‏
  • Dust be on the head of the bones that hinder this cur from hunting the spirit! 475
  • خاک بر سر استخوانی را که آن ** مانع این سگ بود از صید جان‏
  • (If) you are not a cur, how are you in love with bones? Why are you in love with blood, like a leech?
  • سگ نه‏ای بر استخوان چون عاشقی ** دیوچه‏وار از چه بر خون عاشقی‏
  • What (sort of) eye is that that hath no sight, and gets nothing but disgrace from the tests (to which it is put)?
  • آن چه چشم است آن که بیناییش نیست ** ز امتحانها جز که رسواییش نیست‏
  • Opinions are sometimes erroneous, (but) what (sort of) opinion is this that is blind to the (right) road?
  • سهو باشد ظنها را گاه گاه ** این چه ظن است این که کور آمد ز راه‏
  • O eye, thou makest lament for others: sit down awhile and weep for thyself!
  • دیده آ بر دیگران نوحه‏گری ** مدتی بنشین و بر خود می‏گری‏
  • The bough is made green and fresh by the weeping cloud, for the (same) reason that the candle is made brighter by (its) weeping. 480
  • ز ابر گریان شاخ سبز و تر شود ** ز آنکه شمع از گریه روشن‏تر شود
  • Wheresoever people are lamenting, sit you there (and lament), because you have a better right to moan (than they have),
  • هر کجا نوحه کنند آن جا نشین ** ز آنکه تو اولیتری اندر حنین‏
  • Inasmuch as they are (concerned) with parting from that which passes away, and are forgetful of the ruby of everlasting-ness that belongs to the mine (of Reality);
  • ز آن که ایشان در فراق فانی‏اند ** غافل از لعل بقای کانی‏اند
  • Inasmuch as the stamp of blind imitation is (as) a lock upon the heart;-go, scrape off (dissolve) its lock with tears-;
  • ز آن که بر دل نقش تقلید است بند ** رو به آب چشم بندش را برند
  • Inasmuch as imitation is the bane of every good quality; imitation is (but) a straw, (even) if it is a mighty mountain.
  • ز آن که تقلید آفت هر نیکویی است ** که بود تقلید اگر کوه قوی است‏
  • If a blind man is big and choleric, deem him (only) a piece of flesh, since he has no eye (eye-sight). 485
  • گر ضریری لمترست و تیز خشم ** گوشت پاره‏ش دان چو او را نیست چشم‏
  • Though he (the blind imitator) speak words finer than a hair, his heart has no knowledge of these words.
  • گر سخن گوید ز مو باریکتر ** آن سرش را ز آن سخن نبود خبر
  • He has a certain intoxication from his own words, but there is a good way (distance) between him and the Wine.
  • مستیی دارد ز گفت خود و لیک ** از بر وی تا به می راهی است نیک‏
  • He is like a river-bed: it does not drink any water; the water passes through it to the water-drinkers.
  • همچو جوی است او نه او آبی خورد ** آب از او بر آب خواران بگذرد