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  • The work of magic is this, that it breathes (incantations) and at every breath (moment) transforms realities.
  • کار سحر اینست کو دم می‌زند ** هر نفس قلب حقایق می‌کند

  • At one time it shows a man in the guise of an ass, (at another time) it makes an ass (look like) a man and a notable.
  • آدمی را خر نماید ساعتی ** آدمی سازد خری را وآیتی

  • Such a magician is within you and latent: truly, there is a concealed magic in temptation (exerted by the fleshly soul);
  • این چنین ساحر درون تست و سر ** ان فی الوسواس سحرا مستتر

  • (But) in the world in which are these magic arts, there are magicians who defeat sorcery. 4075
  • اندر آن عالم که هست این سحرها ** ساحران هستند جادویی‌گشا

  • In the plain where this fresh (virulent) poison grew, there has also grown the antidote, O son.
  • اندر آن صحرا که رست این زهر تر ** نیز روییدست تریاق ای پسر

  • The antidote says to you, “Seek from me a shield, for I am nearer than the poison to thee.
  • گویدت تریاق از من جو سپر ** که ز زهرم من به تو نزدیکتر

  • Her (the fleshly soul's) words are magic and thy ruin; my words are (lawful) magic and the counter-charm to her magic.”
  • گفت او سحرست و ویرانی تو ** گفت من سحرست و دفع سحر او

  • How the fault-finders repeated their advice to the guest of the guest-killing mosque.
  • مکرر کردن عاذلان پند را بر آن مهمان آن مسجد مهمان کش

  • The Prophet said, “Verily, there is a magic in eloquence”; and that goodly hero spake the truth.
  • گفت پیغامبر که ان فی البیان ** سحرا و حق گفت آن خوش پهلوان

  • “Hey, do not commit a foolhardy act, (but) depart, O generous man, and do not make the mosque and us suspected on this account; 4080
  • هین مکن جلدی برو ای بوالکرم ** مسجد و ما را مکن زین متهم

  • For an enemy will speak form enmity, and to-morrow the villain will rouse a fire (of suspicion) against us,
  • که بگوید دشمنی از دشمنی ** آتشی در ما زند فردا دنی

  • Saying, ‘Some wicked man strangled him, (knowing that) on the pretext of the mosque he was safe (from suspicion),
  • که بتاسانید او را ظالمی ** بر بهانه‌ی مسجد او بد سالمی

  • So that he might impute the murder to the mosque and, since the mosque has a bad name, might escape.’
  • تا بهانه‌ی قتل بر مسجد نهد ** چونک بدنامست مسجد او جهد

  • Do not lay any suspicion upon us, O man of valiant spirit, for we are not secure from the craft of (our) enemies.
  • تهمتی بر ما منه ای سخت‌جان ** که نه‌ایم آمن ز مکر دشمنان

  • Come now, depart! Do not be foolhardy, do not cherish vain desire, for it is impossible to measure (the planet) Saturn by the ell. 4085
  • هین برو جلدی مکن سودا مپز ** که نتان پیمود کیوان را بگز

  • Many like thee have prated of (their) luck, (and in the end) they have torn out their beards, one by one, piecemeal.
  • چون تو بسیاران بلافیده ز بخت ** ریش خود بر کنده یک یک لخت لخت

  • Hey, begone ! Cut short this palaver ! Do not cast thyself and us into woe!"
  • هین برو کوتاه کن این قیل و قال ** خویش و ما را در میفکن در وبال

  • How the guest answered them and adduced the parable of the guardian of the cornfield who, by making a noise with the tomtom, sought to drive away from the cornfield a camel on whose back they were beating the big kettle-drum of (Sultan) Mahmúd.
  • جواب گفتن مهمان ایشان را و مثل آوردن بدفع کردن حارس کشت به بانگ دف از کشت شتری را کی کوس محمودی بر پشت او زدندی

  • He said, “O friends, I am not one of the devils, that (the strength of) my sinews should fail at a single lá hawl.
  • گفت ای یاران از آن دیوان نیم ** که ز لا حولی ضعیف آید پیم

  • A boy, who was the guardian of a cornfield, used to beat a tomtom in order to keep off the birds,
  • کودکی کو حارس کشتی بدی ** طبلکی در دفع مرغان می‌زدی

  • So that the birds, at (the sound of) the tomtom, were scared away from the field, and the field became safe from evil birds. 4090
  • تا رمیدی مرغ زان طبلک ز کشت ** کشت از مرغان بد بی خوف گشت

  • When the Sultan, the noble King Mahmúd, pitched a great tent in that neighbourhood as he passed on the way
  • چونک سلطان شاه محمود کریم ** برگذر زد آن طرف خیمه‌ی عظیم

  • With an army like the stars of heaven (in number), numerous and victorious, one that pierces the ranks (of the enemy) and takes possession of empire—
  • با سپاهی همچو استاره‌ی اثیر ** انبه و پیروز و صفدر ملک‌گیر

  • There was a camel that carried the kettle-drum: ’twas a Bactrian (camel), going in front (of the army) like a cock:
  • اشتری بد کو بدی حمال کوس ** بختیی بد پیش‌رو همچون خروس

  • Day and night he (the driver) used loudly to beat the big kettle-drum and the (ordinary) drum on its back in returning (from an expedition) and in setting out.
  • بانگ کوس و طبل بر وی روز و شب ** می‌زدی اندر رجوع و در طلب

  • That camel entered the cornfield, and the boy beat his tom--tom to protect the corn. 4095
  • اندر آن مزرع در آمد آن شتر ** کودک آن طبلک بزد در حفظ بر

  • An intelligent man said to him, ‘Don't beat the tomtom, for he (the camel) is well-seasoned by the drum; he is accustomed to it.
  • عاقلی گفتش مزن طبلک که او ** پخته‌ی طبلست با آنشست خو

  • What is thy little tomtom, child, to him, since he carries the Sultan's drum twenty times the size?’
  • پیش او چه بود تبوراک تو طفل ** که کشد او طبل سلطان بیست کفل

  • I am a lover, one who has been sacrificed to Naught: my soul is the band-stand for the drum of tribulation.
  • عاشقم من کشته‌ی قربان لا ** جان من نوبتگه طبل بلا

  • Verily, these threats (of yours) are (as) a little tomtom beside that which these eyes (of mine) have seen.
  • خود تبوراکست این تهدیدها ** پیش آنچ دیده است این دیدها

  • O comrades, I am not one of those (without experience), that because of idle fancies I should halt on the Way. 4100
  • ای حریفان من از آنها نیستم ** کز خیالاتی درین ره بیستم

  • I am unafraid (of death), like the Ismá‘ílís; nay, like Ismá‘íl (Ishmael) I am free from (care for my) head.
  • من چو اسماعیلیانم بی‌حذر ** بل چو اسمعیل آزادم ز سر

  • I am done with pomp and ostentation. ‘Say, come ye’: He (the Beloved) said to my soul, ‘Come.’”
  • فارغم از طمطراق و از ریا ** قل تعالوا گفت جانم را بیا

  • The Prophet has said that one who feels sure of the recompense will give generously beforehand.
  • گفت پیغامبر که جاد فی السلف ** بالعطیه من تیقن بالخلف

  • Whoever sees a hundred compensations for the gift will at once give away the gift with this object (in view).
  • هر که بیند مر عطا را صد عوض ** زود دربازد عطا را زین غرض

  • All have become tied (to their business) in the bazaar (this world), to the end that when (the chance of) gain occurs they may give their money. 4105
  • جمله در بازار از آن گشتند بند ** تا چو سود افتاد مال خود دهند

  • With gold in their money-bags, they are seated expectantly (in the hope) that the gain may come and that he who persists (in waiting) may begin to squander (his gold).
  • زر در انبانها نشسته منتظر ** تا که سود آید ببذل آید مصر

  • When he sees a piece of merchandise exceeding (his own) in profit, his fondness for his own goods becomes chilled;
  • چون ببیند کاله‌ای در ربح بیش ** سرد گردد عشقش از کالای خویش

  • (For hitherto) he has remained enamoured of those, because he perceived no profit and advantage superior to his own goods.
  • گرم زان ماندست با آن کو ندید ** کاله‌های خویش را ربح و مزید

  • Similarly, (in the case of) knowledge and accomplishments and trades: (a man is engrossed with them) since he has not seen (anything) superior to them in excellence.
  • همچنین علم و هنرها و حرف ** چون بدید افزون از آنها در شرف

  • Whilst nothing is better than life, life is precious; when a better appears, the name of life becomes a slippery (futile) thing. 4110
  • تا به از جان نیست جان باشد عزیز ** چون به آمد نام جان شد چیز لیز

  • The lifeless doll is as (dear as) life to the child until he has grown up to manhood.
  • لعبت مرده بود جان طفل را ** تا نگشت او در بزرگی طفل‌زا

  • This imagination and fancy are (like) the doll: so long as you are (spiritually) a child, you have need of them;
  • این تصور وین تخیل لعبتست ** تا تو طفلی پس بدانت حاجتست

  • (But) when the spirit has escaped from childishness, it is in union (with God): it is done with sense-perception and imagination and fancy.
  • چون ز طفلی رست جان شد در وصال ** فارغ از حس است و تصویر و خیال

  • There is no confidant (familiar with this mystery), that I should speak without insincerity (reserve). I will keep silence, and God best knoweth the (true) accord.
  • نیست محرم تا بگویم بی‌نفاق ** تن زدم والله اعلم بالوفاق

  • The goods (of this world) and the body are snow melting away to naught; (yet) God is their purchaser, for God hath purchased. 4115
  • مال و تن برف‌اند ریزان فنا ** حق خریدارش که الله اشتری

  • The snows seem to you better than the price, because you are in doubt: you have no certainty (no sure faith),
  • برفها زان از ثمن اولیستت ** که هیی در شک یقینی نیستت

  • And in you, O contemptible man, there is this marvellous opinion that does not fly to the garden of certainty.
  • وین عجب ظنست در تو ای مهین ** که نمی‌پرد به بستان یقین

  • O son, every opinion is thirsting for certainty and emulously flapping its wings (in quest thereof).
  • هر گمان تشنه‌ی یقینست ای پسر ** می‌زند اندر تزاید بال و پر

  • When it attains to knowledge, then the wing becomes a foot, and its knowledge begins to scent certainty,
  • چون رسد در علم پس پر پا شود ** مر یقین را علم او بویا شود

  • For in the tested Way knowledge is inferior to certainty, but above opinion. 4120
  • زانک هست اندر طریق مفتتن ** علم کمتر از یقین و فوق ظن

  • Know that knowledge is a seeker of certainty, and certainty is a seeker of vision and intuition.
  • علم جویای یقین باشد بدان ** و آن یقین جویای دیدست و عیان