You may say, “How should a man of God bring into view the thought of (take any thought of) human beings beside God?”
تو بگویی مرد حق اندر نظر ** کی در آرد با خدا ذکر بشر
You are in a hole here, O so-and-so, because you have regarded them as flesh, not as spirit.
خر ازین می‌خسپد اینجا ای فلان ** که بشر دیدی تو ایشان را نه جان
You have come to ruin, O foolish man, because like the vulgar you regarded them as human beings.
کار ازین ویران شدست ای مرد خام ** که بشر دیدی مر ایشان را چو عام
You have regarded (them) in the same way as the accursed Iblís (regarded Adam): he said, “I am of fire, (while) Adam is of earth.”
تو همان دیدی که ابلیس لعین ** گفت من از آتشم آدم ز طین
Bandage your Satanic eye for one moment: how long, pray, will you regard the (external) form? How long, how long?2300
چشم ابلیسانه را یک دم ببند ** چند بینی صورت آخر چند چند
O Daqúqí with (thy) streaming eyes, come, do not abandon hope: seek them!
ای دقوقی با دو چشم همچو جو ** هین مبر اومید ایشان را بجو
Come, seek (them), for search is the pillar (foundation) of fortune: every success consists in (depends on) fixing the heart (upon the object of desire).
هین بجو که رکن دولت جستن است ** هر گشادی در دل اندر بستن است
Unconcerned with all the business of the world, keep saying with (all) thy soul kú, kú, like the dove.
از همه کار جهان پرداخته ** کو و کو می‌گو بجان چون فاخته
Consider this well, O thou who art veiled (by worldliness), that God hath tied “invocation” to “I will answer.”
نیک بنگر اندرین ای محتجب ** که دعا را بست حق در استجب
Whosoever's heart is purged of infirmity, his invocation will go unto the Lord of glory.2305
هر که را دل پاک شد از اعتلال ** آن دعااش می‌رود تا ذوالجلال
Explaining further the story of him who in the time of David, on whom be peace, sought to receive (from God) lawful means of livelihood without working or taking trouble, and how his prayer was answered favourably.
باز شرح کردن حکایت آن طالب روزی حلال بی کسب و رنج در عهد داود علیه السلام و مستجاب شدن دعای او
The story has come into my mind how that poor man used to moan and lament day and night,
یادم آمد آن حکایت کان فقیر ** روز و شب می‌کرد افغان و نفیر
And beg of God a lawful means of livelihood without pursuit and trouble and work and movement (from one place to another).
وز خدا می‌خواست روزی حلال ** بی شکار و رنج و کسب و انتقال
We have formerly related a part of what happened to him, but hindrance intervened and became fivefold.
پیش ازین گفتیم بعضی حال او ** لیک تعویق آمد و شد پنج‌تو
(Now) too we shall tell( the rest of) it. Whither will it (the story) flee, since wisdom has poured (on us) from the clouds of God’s bounty?
هم بگوییمش کجا خواهد گریخت ** چون ز ابر فضل حق حکمت بریخت
The owner of the cow espied him and said “Hey, O you to whose unrighteousness my cow has fallen a prey,2310
صاحب گاوش بدید و گفت هین ** ای بظلمت گاو من گشته رهین
Hey, tell (me) why did you kill my cow? Fool! Cutpurse! Deal fairly (with me).”
هین چراکشتی بگو گاو مرا ** ابله طرار انصاف اندر آ
He said, “I was begging God for daily bread and preparing aqibla(for myself) of supplication.
گفت من روزی ز حق می‌خواستم ** قبله را از لابه می‌آراستم
That ancient prayer of mine was answered (by God). She (the cow) was my portion of daily bread: I killed her. Behold the answer (to your question)!”
آن دعای کهنه‌ام شد مستجاب ** روزی من بود کشتم نک جواب
He (the owner of the cow) came angrily and seized his collar; having lost patience, he struck him in the face with his fist several times.
او ز خشم آمد گریبانش گرفت ** چند مشتی زد به رویش ناشکفت
How both the adversaries went to David, on whom be peace.
رفتن هر دو خصم نزد داود علیه السلام
He led him to the Prophet David, saying, “Come, O you crazy fool and criminal!2315
می‌کشیدش تا به داود نبی ** که بیا ای ظالم گیج غبی
Drop (this) silly argument, O impostor; let (some) intelligence into your body and come to your senses!
حجت بارد رها کن ای دغا ** عقل در تن آور و با خویش آ
What is this that you are saying? What is the prayer (you speak of)? Do not laugh at my head and beard and your own (too), O scoundrel!”
این چه می‌گویی دعا چه بود مخند ** بر سر و و ریش من و خویش ای لوند
He (the poor man) said, “I have offered (many) prayers to God, I have borne much toil and pain in this supplication.
گفت من با حق دعاها کرده‌ام ** اندرین لابه بسی خون خورده‌ام
I possess the certainty (that) the prayer has been answered. Dash your head against the stones, O foul-spoken one!”
من یقین دارم دعا شد مستجاب ** سر بزن بر سنگ ای منکرخطاب
He cried, “Hey, gather round, O Moslems! Behold the drivel and raving of this imbecile!2320
گفت گرد آیید هین یا مسلمین ** ژاژ بینید و فشار این مهین
O Moslems, for God’s sake, how should prayer make my property belong to him?
ای مسلمانان دعا مال مرا ** چون از آن او کند بهر خدا
If it were so, by means of a single prayer of this kind the whole world would carry off (one another’s) possessions by force.
گر چنین بودی همه عالم بدین ** یک دعا املاک بردندی بکین
If it were so, the blind beggars would have become grandees and princes;
گر چنین بودی گدایان ضریر ** محتشم گشته بدندی و امیر
(For) they are (engaged) day and night in invocation and praise (of God), uttering entreaties and crying, ‘O God, do Thou give unto us!
روز و شب اندر دعااند و ثنا ** لابه‌گویان که تو ده‌مان ای خدا
Unless Thou give, assuredly no one will give (us anything): O Opener, do Thou open the lock of this (bounty)!’2325
تا تو ندهی هیچ کس ندهد یقین ** ای گشاینده تو بگشا بند این
Supplication and prayer is the means whereby the blind earn their livelihood, (yet) they get no gift but a crust of bread.”
مکسب کوران بود لابه و دعا ** جز لب نانی نیابند از عطا
The people said, “This Moslem speaks the truth, and this prayer-monger is one who seeks to act unjustly.
خلق گفتند این مسلمان راست‌گوست ** وین فروشنده‌ی دعاها ظلم‌جوست
How should this prayer be a means of acquiring property? When forsooth did the religious Law enter this on the roll?
این دعا کی باشد از اسباب ملک ** کی کشید این را شریعت خود بسلک
A thing becomes your property by sale and donation or by bequest and gift or by some means of this kind.
بیع و بخشش یا وصیت یا عطا ** یا ز جنس این شود ملکی ترا
In what book is this new statute (to be found)? Give back the cow or go to prison!”2330
در کدامین دفترست این شرع نو ** گاو را تو باز ده یا حبس رو
He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.
او به سوی آسمان می‌کرد رو ** واقعه‌ی ما را نداند غیر تو
Thou didst put that prayer into my heart, Thou didst raise dreams.”
در دل من آن دعا انداختی ** صد امید اندر دلم افراختی
Not idly was I uttering that prayer: like Joseph, I had dreamed dreams.”
من نمی‌کردم گزافه آن دعا ** همچو یوسف دیده بودم خوابها
Joseph saw (in dream) the sun and the stars bowing low before him, like servants.
دید یوسف آفتاب و اختران ** پیش او سجده‌کنان چون چاکران
He relied upon the true dream: in the dungeoun and prison he sought nothing but that.2335
اعتمادش بود بر خواب درست ** در چه و زندان جز آن را می‌نجست
Because of his reliance upon that, he cared naught for servitude or reproach or (anything else whether) more or less.
ز اعتماد او نبودش هیچ غم ** از غلامی وز ملام و بیش و کم