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  • He (the saint) beholds a hundred discourses in himself, while his companion has gotten no scent (perception thereof).
  • بنگرد در نفس خود صد گفت و گو ** همنشین او نبرده هیچ بو

  • Within thy heart a hundred questions and a hundred answers are coming from (the realm of) non-spatiality to thy dwelling-place.
  • صد سال و صد جواب اندر دلت ** می‌رسد از لامکان تا منزلت

  • Thou hearest (them); the ears (of another) do not hear (them), (even) if he bring his ear nigh to thee. 4280
  • بشنوی تو نشنود زان گوشها ** گر به نزدیک تو آرد گوش را

  • O deaf man, I grant that truly thou hearest them not; (but) since thou hast seen their (external) emblem, how wilt not thou believe?
  • گیرم ای کر خود تو آن را نشنوی ** چون مثالش دیده‌ای چون نگروی

  • Reply to him who rails at the Mathnawí on account of his being deficient in understanding.
  • جواب طعنه‌زننده در مثنوی از قصور فهم خود

  • O railing cur, you are bow-wowing and practising evasion for the purpose of railing at the Qur’án.
  • ای سگ طاعن تو عو عو می‌کنی ** طعن قرآن را برون‌شو می‌کنی

  • This is not such a lion that you will save your life from it or carry off your faith (secure) from the claws of its vengeance.
  • این نه آن شیرست کز وی جان بری ** یا ز پنجه‌ی قهر او ایمان بری

  • The Qur’án is proclaiming till the Resurrection—“O people devoted to ignorance,
  • تا قیامت می‌زند قرآن ندی ** ای گروهی جهل را گشته فدی

  • Who were deeming me to be an idle tale and were sowing the seed of raillery and infidelity, 4285
  • که مرا افسانه می‌پنداشتید ** تخم طعن و کافری می‌کاشتید

  • (Now) ye yourselves have seen (the truth of) what ye were scoffing at, (namely), that ye were perishable and idle tale.
  • خود بدیدیت آنک طعنه می‌زدیت ** که شما فانی و افسانه بدیت

  • I am the Word of God and subsistent through the (Divine) Essence; I am the Food of the soul of the soul. And (I am) the Jacinth of purity.
  • من کلام حقم و قایم به ذات ** قوت جان جان و یاقوت زکات

  • I am the Sunlight that hath fallen upon you, but I have not become separate from the Sun.
  • نور خورشیدم فتاده بر شما ** لیک از خورشید ناگشته جدا

  • Lo, I am the Fountain of the Water of Life, that I may deliver the lovers (of God) from death.
  • نک منم ینبوع آن آب حیات ** تا رهانم عاشقان را از ممات

  • If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.” 4290
  • گر چنان گند آزتان ننگیختی ** جرعه‌ای بر گورتان حق ریختی

  • Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.
  • نه بگیرم گفت و پند آن حکیم ** دل نگردانم بهر طعنی سقیم

  • Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.
  • مثل زدن در رمیدن کره‌ی اسپ از آب خوردن به سبب شخولیدن سایسان

  • As he has said in his discourse, the foal and its mother were drinking the water.
  • آنک فرمودست او اندر خطاب ** کره و مادر همی‌خوردند آب

  • Those persons (the grooms) were bawling incessantly at the horses, “Come on! Hey, drink!”
  • می‌شخولیدند هر دم آن نفر ** بهر اسپان که هلا هین آب خور

  • (The noise of) that bawling reached the foal: it was lifting its head and refusing to drink.
  • آن شخولیدن به کره می‌رسید ** سر همی بر داشت و از خور می‌رمید

  • Its mother asked, “O foal, why art thou always refusing to drink this water?” 4295
  • مادرش پرسید کای کره چرا ** می‌رمی هر ساعتی زین استقا

  • The foal said, “These people are bawling: I am afraid of the occurrence of their shouts.
  • گفت کره می‌شخولند این گروه ** ز اتفاق بانگشان دارم شکوه

  • Therefore my heart is trembling and jumping: dread of the occurrence of the outcry is coming on me.”
  • پس دلم می‌لرزد از جا می‌رود ** ز اتفاق نعره خوفم می‌رسد

  • The mother said, “Ever since the world existed, there have been busybodies of this sort on the earth.”
  • گفت مادر تا جهان بودست ازین ** کارافزایان بدند اندر زمین

  • Hark, do your own business, O worthy man: soon will they tear their beards (in sorrow).
  • هین تو کار خویش کن ای ارجمند ** زود کایشان ریش خود بر می‌کنند

  • The time is restricted, and the abundant water is flowing away: (drink) ere, through being parted (from it), you fall to pieces. 4300
  • وقت تنگ و می‌رود آب فراخ ** پیش از آن کز هجر گردی شاخ شاخ

  • There is a famous conduit, full of the Water of Life: draw the Water, in order that verdure may grow up from you.
  • شهره کاریزیست پر آب حیات ** آب کش تا بر دمد از تو نبات

  • We are drinking the water of Khizr from the river of the speech of the saints: come, O heedless thirsty man!
  • آب خضر از جوی نطق اولیا ** می‌خوریم ای تشنه‌ی غافل بیا

  • If you do not see the water, artfully after the fashion of the blind bring the jug to the river, and dip it in the river.
  • گر نبینی آب کورانه بفن ** سوی جو آور سبو در جوی زن

  • Forasmuch as you have heard that there is water in this river-bed, (go and try): the blind man must practise conformity.
  • چون شنیدی کاندرین جو آب هست ** کور را تقلید باید کار بست

  • Carry down to the river the water-skin that has thoughts of the water, so that you may find your water-skin heavy. 4305
  • جو فرو بر مشک آب‌اندیش را ** تا گران بینی تو مشک خویش را

  • When you have found it heavy, you will be led to infer (the truth): at that moment your heart is delivered from dry conformity.
  • چون گران دیدی شوی تو مستدل ** رست از تقلید خشک آنگاه دل

  • If the blind man does not see the river-water ocularly, yet he knows, when he finds the jug heavy,
  • گر نبیند کور آب جو عیان ** لیک داند چون سبو بیند گران

  • That some water has gone from the river into the jug; for this (jug) was light, and (now) it has become heavy and swollen with water;
  • که ز جو اندر سبو آبی برفت ** کین سبک بود و گران شد ز آب و زفت

  • “Because,” (he will say), “every wind used to sweep me away, (but now) the wind does not sweep me away: my weight has increased.”
  • زانک هر بادی مرا در می‌ربود ** باد می‌نربایدم ثقلم فزود

  • The foolish are swept away by every gust of desire, because they have no weight (ballast) of (intellectual) faculties. 4310
  • مر سفیهان را رباید هر هوا ** زانک نبودشان گرانی قوی

  • The wicked man is an anchorless ship, for he finds no precaution (means of defence) against the perverse (contrary) wind.
  • کشتی بی‌لنگر آمد مرد شر ** که ز باد کژ نیابد او حذر

  • To the intelligent man the anchor of intelligence is security: beg (such) an anchor from the intelligent.
  • لنگر عقلست عاقل را امان ** لنگری در یوزه کن از عاقلان

  • Since he (the Sage) has borne away the succours (supplies) of intelligence from the pearl-treasury of that Sea of Bounty,
  • او مددهای خرد چون در ربود ** از خزینه در آن دریای جود

  • By such succours (replenishments) the heart is filled with knowledge: it (that knowledge) shoots from the heart, and the eye too becomes illuminated,
  • زین چنین امداد دل پر فن شود ** بجهد از دل چشم هم روشن شود

  • Because the light from the heart has settled upon this eye so that your eye, having become the heart, is (physically) inactive. 4315
  • زانک نور از دل برین دیده نشست ** تا چو دل شد دیده‌ی تو عاطلست

  • When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion thereof on the eyes also.
  • دل چو بر انوار عقلی نیز زد ** زان نصیبی هم بدو دیده دهد

  • Know, then, that the blessed Water from Heaven is the inspiration of (men's) hearts and the true explanation (of every mystery).
  • پس بدان کاب مبارک ز آسمان ** وحی دلها باشد و صدق بیان

  • Let us also, like that foal, drink the water of the stream; let us pay no regard to the evil suggestions of the railer.
  • ما چو آن کره هم آب جو خوریم ** سوی آن وسواس طاعن ننگریم

  • (If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.
  • پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر

  • When have the Masters who have traversed the Way lent ear to the clamour of curs? 4320
  • آن خداوندان که ره طی کرده‌اند ** گوش فا بانگ سگان کی کرده‌اند

  • The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.
  • بقیه‌ی ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش

  • Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.
  • باز گو کان پاک‌باز شیرمرد ** اندر آن مسجد چه بنمودش چه کرد

  • He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?
  • خفت در مسجد خود او را خواب کو ** مرد غرقه گشته چون خسپد بجو

  • Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.
  • خواب مرغ و ماهیان باشد همی ** عاشقان را زیر غرقاب غمی

  • At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”
  • نیمشب آواز با هولی رسید ** کایم آیم بر سرت ای مستفید

  • Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal. 4325
  • پنج کرت این چنین آواز سخت ** می‌رسید و دل همی‌شد لخت‌لخت

  • Commentary on the verse (of the Qur’án): “And raise the battle-cry against them with thy horsemen and men on foot.”
  • تفسیر آیت واجلب علیهم بخیلک و رجلک

  • When you earnestly resolve to be religious, the Devil in your nature cries out at you,
  • تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد ** دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد

  • “Go not in that direction! Bethink you, O misguided one; for you will become captive to distress and poverty.
  • که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی ** که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی