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466-515

  • 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
  • The water does not settle in the river-bed because the river-bed is not thirsty and water-drinking.
  • آب در جو ز آن نمی‏گیرد قرار ** ز آن که آن جو نیست تشنه و آب خوار
  • Like a reed-flute, he makes a piteous lament, but he (only) seeks a purchaser (admirer). 490
  • همچو نایی ناله‏ی زاری کند ** لیک بیگار خریداری کند
  • The imitator in his discourse is (like) a professional mourner: that wicked man has no motive except cupidity.
  • نوحه‏گر باشد مقلد در حدیث ** جز طمع نبود مراد آن خبیث‏
  • The professional mourner utters burning words (of grief), but where is the glow of heart (heartfelt sorrow) and the rent skirt?
  • نوحه‏گر گوید حدیث سوزناک ** لیک کو سوز دل و دامان چاک‏
  • Between the true knower and the blind imitator there are (great) differences, for the former is like David, while the other is (but) an echo.
  • از محقق تا مقلد فرق‏هاست ** کاین چو داود است و آن دیگر صداست‏
  • The source of the former’s words is a glow (of feeling), whereas the imitator is one who learns old things (by rote).
  • منبع گفتار این سوزی بود ** و آن مقلد کهنه آموزی بود
  • Beware! Be not duped by those sorrowful words” the ox bears the load, but it is the cart that moans (creaks). 495
  • هین مشو غره بدان گفت حزین ** بار بر گاو است و بر گردون حنین‏
  • Even the imitator is not disappointed of the (Divine) recompense: the professional mourner gets his wages at the (time of) reckoning.
  • هم مقلد نیست محروم از ثواب ** نوحه‏گر را مزد باشد در حساب‏
  • (Both) infidel and true believer say “God,” but there is a good difference between the two.
  • کافر و مومن خدا گویند لیک ** در میان هر دو فرقی هست نیک‏
  • The beggar says “God” for the sake of bread; the devout man says “God” from his soul.
  • آن گدا گوید خدا از بهر نان ** متقی گوید خدا از عین جان‏
  • If the beggar distinguished (God as He really is) from his own saying (the name of God), neither less nor more would remain before his eye.
  • گر بدانستی گدا از گفت خویش ** پیش چشم او نه کم ماندی نه پیش‏
  • For years that bread-seeker says “god”; like the ass, he carries the Qur’án for the sake of (being fed with) straw. 500
  • سالها گوید خدا آن نان خواه ** همچو خر مصحف کشد از بهر کاه‏
  • Had the word on his lips shone forth in his heart, his body would have been shivered to atoms.
  • گر بدل در تافتی گفت لبش ** ذره ذره گشته بودی قالبش‏
  • In sorcery the name of a demon finds the way (to success); you are earning a petty coin by means of the Name of God.
  • نام دیوی ره برد در ساحری ** تو به نام حق پشیزی می‏بری‏
  • How a peasant stroked a lion in the dark, because he thought it was his ox.
  • خاریدن روستایی در تاریکی شیر را به گمان آن که گاو اوست
  • A peasant tied an ox in the stable: a lion ate his ox and sat in its place.
  • روستایی گاو در آخر ببست ** شیر گاوش خورد و بر جایش نشست‏
  • The peasant went into the stable to (see) the ox: the man, groping into corners, was seeking the ox at night.
  • روستایی شد در آخر سوی گاو ** گاو را می‏جست شب آن کنج کاو
  • He was rubbing his hand on the limbs of the lion, back and side, now above, now below. 505
  • دست می‏مالید بر اعضای شیر ** پشت و پهلو گاه بالا گاه زیر
  • The lion said, “If the light were to become greater, his gall-bladder would burst and his heart would turn to blood.
  • گفت شیر ار روشنی افزون شدی ** زهره‏اش بدریدی و دل خون شدی‏
  • He is stroking me like this so boldly because in this (dark) night he thinks I am the ox.”
  • این چنین گستاخ ز آن می‏خاردم ** کاو درین شب گاو می‏پنداردم‏
  • God is saying, “O blind dupe, did not Túr (Sinai) fall in pieces at My Name?
  • حق همی‏گوید که ای مغرور کور ** نه ز نامم پاره پاره گشت طور
  • For if We had sent down (revealed) a Book to the mountain, it would have been riven asunder, then cut to pieces, and then it would have departed (disappeared).
  • که لو انزلنا کتابا للجبل ** لانصدع ثم انقطع ثم ارتحل‏
  • If Mount Uhud had been acquainted with Me, it would have been shivered to pieces and its heart would have been filled with blood.” 510
  • از من ار کوه احد واقف بدی ** پاره گشتی و دلش پر خون شدی‏
  • You have heard this from your father and mother; in consequence you have embraced it thoughtlessly.
  • از پدر وز مادر این بشنیده‏ای ** لاجرم غافل در این پیچیده‏ای‏
  • If you become acquainted with this without blind imitation, by (His) grace you will become immaterial, like a voice from Heaven.
  • گر تو بی‏تقلید از این واقف شوی ** بی‏نشان از لطف چون هاتف شوی‏
  • Hear this (following) story as a deterrent, in order that you may know the banefulness of blind imitation.
  • بشنو این قصه پی تهدید را ** تا بدانی آفت تقلید را
  • How the Súfís sold the traveller's beast (to pay) for the (expenses of the) mystic dance.
  • فروختن صوفیان بهیمه‏ی مسافر را جهت سماع
  • A Súfí, after journeying, arrived at a monastery (for Súfís); he took his mount and led it to the stable.
  • صوفیی در خانقاه از ره رسید ** مرکب خود برد و در آخر کشید
  • With his own hand he gave it a little water and some fodder: (he was) not such a Súfí as the one we told of before. 515
  • آب کش داد و علف از دست خویش ** نه چنان صوفی که ما گفتیم پیش‏