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3104-3153

  • Another party go (to and fro) exceedingly hidden: how should they become well-known to the people of externals?
  • قوم دیگر سخت پنهان می‌روند ** شهره‌ی خلقان ظاهر کی شوند
  • They possess all this (spiritual dominion), and (yet) no one's eye falls upon their sovereignty for one moment. 3105
  • این همه دارند و چشم هیچ کس ** بر نیفتد بر کیاشان یک نفس
  • Both their miracles and they (themselves) are in the (Divine) sanctuary: even the Abdál do not hear their names.
  • هم کرامتشان هم ایشان در حرم ** نامشان را نشنوند ابدال هم
  • Or art thou ignorant of the bounties of God who is calling thee to come yonder?
  • یا نمی‌دانی کرمهای خدا ** کو ترا می‌خواند آن سو که بیا
  • The whole world of six directions is (filled with) His bounty: wheresoever thou lookest, it is making Him (His bounty) known.
  • شش جهت عالم همه اکرام اوست ** هر طرف که بنگری اعلام اوست
  • When a generous man bids thee come into the fire, come in quickly and do not say, “It will burn me.”
  • چون کریمی گویدت آتش در آ ** اندر آ زود و مگو سوزد مرا
  • The story of Anas, may God be pleased with him: how he cast a napkin into a fiery oven, and it was not burnt.
  • حکایت مندیل در تنور پر آتش انداختن انس رضی الله عنه و ناسوختن
  • It has come (down to us) concerning Anas son of Málik that a certain person became his guest. 3110
  • از انس فرزند مالک آمدست ** که به مهمانی او شخصی شدست
  • He (that person) related that after the meal Anas saw the table-napkin (was) yellow in hue,
  • او حکایت کرد کز بعد طعام ** دید انس دستارخوان را زردفام
  • Dirty and stained; and said, “O maid-servant, throw it into the oven at once.”
  • چرکن و آلوده گفت ای خادمه ** اندر افکن در تنورش یک‌دمه
  • Thereupon the intelligent (maid) threw it into the oven, which was full of fire.
  • در تنور پر ز آتش در فکند ** آن زمان دستارخوان را هوشمند
  • All the guests were astounded thereat: they were in expectation of (seeing) the smoke of the (burning) napkin.
  • جمله مهمانان در آن حیران شدند ** انتظار دود کندوری بدند
  • After a short time she took it out of the oven, clean and white and purged of that filth. 3115
  • بعد یکساعت بر آورد از تنور ** پاک و اسپید و از آن اوساخ دور
  • The party (of guests) said, “O venerable Companion (of the Prophet), how didn't it burn, and how too did it become cleansed?”
  • قوم گفتند ای صحابی عزیز ** چون نسوزید و منقی گشت نیز
  • He replied, “Because Mustafá (Mohammed) often rubbed his hands and lips on this napkin.”
  • گفت زانک مصطفی دست و دهان ** بس بمالید اندرین دستارخوان
  • O heart afraid of the fire and torment (of Hell), draw nigh unto such a hand and lip as that!
  • ای دل ترسنده از نار و عذاب ** با چنان دست و لبی کن اقتراب
  • Since it (the Prophet's blessing) bestowed such honour upon a lifeless object, what things will it reveal to the soul of the lover!
  • چون جمادی را چنین تشریف داد ** جان عاشق را چه‌ها خواهد گشاد
  • Inasmuch as he (the Prophet) made the clods of the Ka‘ba the qibla (towards which the Moslems turn), do thou, O soul, be (as) the dust of holy men in (thy) war (against the flesh). 3120
  • مر کلوخ کعبه را چون قبله کرد ** خاک مردان باش ای جان در نبرد
  • Afterwards they said to the maid-servant, “Wilt not thou tell (us) thine own feelings about all this?
  • بعد از آن گفتند با آن خادمه ** تو نگویی حال خود با این همه
  • Why didst thou (so) quickly cast it (into the oven) at his behest? I suppose he was acquainted with the secrets,
  • چون فکندی زود آن از گفت وی ** گیرم او بردست در اسرار پی
  • (But) why didst thou, mistress, throw such a precious napkin into the fire?”
  • این‌چنین دستارخوان قیمتی ** چون فکندی اندر آتش ای ستی
  • She answered, “I have confidence in the generous: I do not despair of their bounty.
  • گفت دارم بر کریمان اعتماد ** نیستم ز اکرام ایشان ناامید
  • What of a piece of cloth? If he bid me (myself) go without regret into the very essence of the fire, 3125
  • میزری چه بود اگر او گویدم ** در رو اندر عین آتش بی ندم
  • I, from perfect confidence (in him), will fall (throw myself) in: I have great hope of them that are devoted to God.
  • اندر افتم از کمال اعتماد ** از عباد الله دارم بس امید
  • I will throw myself in, not (only) this napkin, because of my confidence in every generous one who knows the mystery.”
  • سر در اندازم نه این دستارخوان ** ز اعتماد هر کریم رازدان
  • O brother, apply thyself to this elixir: the faith of a man must not be less than the faith of a woman.
  • ای برادر خود برین اکسیر زن ** کم نباید صدق مرد از صدق زن
  • The heart of the man that is less than a woman is the heart that is less (in worth) than the belly.
  • آن دل مردی که از زن کم بود ** آن دلی باشد که کم ز اشکم بود
  • Story of the Prophet's, on whom be peace, coming to the aid of a caravan of Arabs who had been brought to sore straits by thirst and lack of water and had set their minds on death: (both) the camels and the people (of the caravan) had let their tongues drop out (of their mouths from exhaustion).
  • قصه‌ی فریاد رسیدن رسول علیه السلام کاروان عرب را کی از تشنگی و بی‌آبی در مانده بودند و دل بر مرگ نهاده شتران و خلق زبان برون انداخته
  • In that wadi (was) a company of Arabs: their water-skins had become dry from lack of rain: 3130
  • اندر آن وادی گروهی از عرب ** خشک شد از قحط بارانشان قرب
  • A caravan amidst the desert in sore distress—they had rehearsed their own death.
  • در میان آن بیابان مانده ** کاروانی مرگ خود بر خوانده
  • Suddenly he who succours both worlds, Mustafá (Mohammed), appeared on the way, for help's sake.
  • ناگهانی آن مغیث هر دو کون ** مصطفی پیدا شد از ره بهر عون
  • He saw there an exceeding great caravan on the scalding sand and (engaged in) a hard and terrible journey;
  • دید آنجا کاروانی بس بزرگ ** بر تف ریگ و ره صعب و سترگ
  • The tongues of their camels hanging out, the people strown everywhere on the sand.
  • اشترانشان را زبان آویخته ** خلق اندر ریگ هر سو ریخته
  • He took pity and said, “Hark, go at once, some of your comrades, and run to yonder sandhills, 3135
  • رحمش آمد گفت هین زوتر روید ** چند یاری سوی آن کثبان دوید
  • For a negro on camelback will (presently) bring a water-skin, (which) he is conveying with all speed to his master.
  • گر سیاهی بر شتر مشک آورد ** سوی میر خود به زودی می‌برد
  • Bring to me that negro camel-driver along with the camel by force, if need be.”
  • آن شتربان سیه را با شتر ** سوی من آرید با فرمان مر
  • Those seekers approached the sandhills: after a short while they saw ’twas even so:
  • سوی کثبان آمدند آن طالبان ** بعد یکساعت بدیدند آنچنان
  • A negro slave was going with a camel, the water-skin filled with water, like one bearing a gift.
  • بنده‌ای می‌شد سیه با اشتری ** راویه پر آب چون هدیه‌بری
  • Then they said to him, “The Pride of mankind, the Best of created beings, invites thee (to come) in this direction.” 3140
  • پس بدو گفتند می‌خواند ترا ** این طرف فخر البشر خیر الوری
  • He said, “I do not know him: who is he?” He (the spokesman) said, “He is that moon-faced sweet-natured one.”
  • گفت من نشناسم او را کیست او ** گفت او آن ماه‌روی قندخو
  • They described to him the diverse qualities which exist (in the Prophet): he said, “Belike he is that poet (wizard)
  • نوعها تعریف کردندش که هست ** گفت مانا او مگر آن شاعرست
  • Who subdued a multitude by magic: I will not come half a span towards him.”
  • که گروهی را زبون کرد او بسحر ** من نیایم جانب او نیم شبر
  • Dragging him along, they brought him thither: he raised an outcry in revilement and heat (of anger).
  • کش‌کشانش آوریدند آن طرف ** او فغان برداشت در تشنیع و تف
  • When they dragged him before that venerable one, he (the Prophet) said, “Drink ye the water and carry it away withal.” 3145
  • چون کشیدندش به پیش آن عزیز ** گفت نوشید آب و بردارید نیز
  • He satisfied the thirst of them all from that water-skin: the camels and every person drank of that water.
  • جمله را زان مشک او سیراب کرد ** اشتران و هر کسی زان آب خورد
  • From his (the negro's) water-skin he filled large and small water-skins: from jealousy of him the clouds in the sky were distraught.
  • راویه پر کرد و مشک از مشک او ** ابر گردون خیره ماند از رشک او
  • Has any one seen (such a wonder as) this, that the burning glow of so many Hells (of thirst) should be cooled by a single water-skin?
  • این کسی دیدست کز یک راویه ** سرد گردد سوز چندان هاویه
  • Has any one seen (such a wonder as) this, that all these water-skins were filled from a single water-skin without trouble?
  • این کسی دیدست کز یک مشک آب ** گشت چندین مشک پر بی اضطراب
  • The water-skin itself was a veil, and (in reality) at his (the Prophet's) command the waves of (Divine) bounty were coming (to them) from the Sea of origin. 3150
  • مشک خود روپوش بود و موج فضل ** می‌رسید از امر او از بحر اصل
  • “Water by boiling is converted into air, and that air by cold is turned into water.”
  • آب از جوشش همی‌گردد هوا ** و آن هوا گردد ز سردی آبها
  • Nay, (it is not so); without cause and beyond these maxims of (natural) philosophy the (Divine) act of bringing into existence produced the water from non-existence.
  • بلک بی علت و بیرون زین حکم ** آب رویانید تکوین از عدم
  • Inasmuch as you have observed (secondary) causes from your childhood, through ignorance you have stuck to the (secondary) cause.
  • تو ز طفلی چون سببها دیده‌ای ** در سبب از جهل بر چفسیده‌ای