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436-485

  • We are quit of thy invitation: (keep) the invitation for thyself: we will not listen to these words of thine, O infidel!
  • ما بری از دعوتت دعوت ترا ** ما ننوشیم این دم تو کافرا

  • The stronghold (the water) is (enough) for us: let the sugar and sugar-fields be thine! I do not desire thy gift: take it for thyself!
  • حصن ما را قند و قندستان ترا ** من نخواهم هدیه‌ات بستان ترا

  • Whilst there is life (in the body), food will not fail; when there is an army, banners will not fail.”
  • چونک جان باشد نیاید لوت کم ** چونک لشکر هست کم ناید علم

  • The prudent Khwája offered many an excuse and made many a pretext to the (countryman who resembled the) obstinate Devil.
  • خواجه‌ی حازم بسی عذر آورید ** بس بهانه کرد با دیو مرید

  • “At this moment,” said he, “I have serious matters (in hand); if I come (to visit you), they will not be set in order. 440
  • گفت این دم کارها دارم مهم ** گر بیایم آن نگردد منتظم

  • The King has charged me with a delicate affair, and because of (anxiously) expecting me he has not slept during the night.
  • شاه کار نازکم فرموده است ** ز انتظارم شاه شب نغنوده است

  • I dare not neglect the King's command, I cannot fall into disgrace with the King.
  • من نیارم ترک امر شاه کرد ** من نتانم شد بر شه روی‌زرد

  • Every morning and evening a special officer arrives and requests of me (desires me to provide) a means of escape (from the difficulty).
  • هر صباح و هر مسا سرهنگ خاص ** می‌رسد از من همی‌جوید مناص

  • Do you deem it right that I should go into the country, with the result that the King would knit his brows (in wrath)?
  • تو روا داری که آیم سوی ده ** تا در ابرو افکند سلطان گره

  • How should I heal (assuage) his anger after that? Surely, by this (offence) I should bury myself alive.” 445
  • بعد از آن درمان خشمش چون کنم ** زنده خود را زین مگر مدفون کنم

  • He related a hundred pretexts of this sort, (but his) expedients did not coincide with God's decree.
  • زین نمط او صد بهانه باز گفت ** حیله‌ها با حکم حق نفتاد جفت

  • If (all) the atoms of the world contrive expedients, they are naught, naught, against the ordinance of Heaven.
  • گر شود ذرات عالم حیله‌پیچ ** با قضای آسمان هیچند هیچ

  • How shall this earth flee from Heaven, how shall it conceal itself from it?
  • چون گریزد این زمین از آسمان ** چون کند او خویش را از وی نهان

  • Whatsoever may come from Heaven to the earth, it (the earth) has no refuge or device or hiding-place.
  • هرچه آید ز آسمان سوی زمین ** نه مفر دارد نه چاره نه کمین

  • Is fire from the sun raining upon it, it has laid its face (low) before his fire; 450
  • آتش ار خورشید می‌بارد برو ** او بپیش آتشش بنهاده رو

  • And if the rain is making a flood upon it and devastating the cities upon it,
  • ور همی طوفان کند باران برو ** شهرها را می‌کند ویران برو

  • It (the earth) has become resigned to it (Heaven), like Job, saying, “I am captive: bring (on me) whatever thou wilt.”
  • او شده تسلیم او ایوب‌وار ** که اسیرم هرچه می‌خواهی ببار

  • O thou who art a part of this earth, do not lift up thy head (in rebellion); when thou seest the decree of God, do not withdraw (from it disobediently).
  • ای که جزو این زمینی سر مکش ** چونک بینی حکم یزدان در مکش

  • Since thou hast heard “We created thee of dust,” (know that) He (God) hath required thee to be (humble and submissive as) dust: do not avert thy face (from Him).
  • چون خلقناکم شنودی من تراب ** خاک باشی جست از تو رو متاب

  • (God saith), “Mark how I have sown a seed in the earth: thou art dust of the earth, and I have raised it aloft. 455
  • بین که اندر خاک تخمی کاشتم ** کرد خاکی و منش افراشتم

  • Do thou once more adopt the practice of earthiness (self-abasement), that I may make thee prince over all princes.”
  • حمله‌ی دیگر تو خاکی پیشه گیر ** تا کنم بر جمله میرانت امیر

  • Water goes from above to below; then from below it goes up above.
  • آب از بالا به پستی در رود ** آنگه از پستی به بالا بر رود

  • The wheat went beneath the earth from above; afterwards it became ears of corn and sprang up quickly.
  • گندم از بالا بزیر خاک شد ** بعد از آن او خوشه و چالاک شد

  • The seed of every fruit entered into the earth; afterwards it raised up heads (shoots) from the buried (root).
  • دانه‌ی هر میوه آمد در زمین ** بعد از آن سرها بر آورد از دفین

  • The source of (all) blessings descended from Heaven to the earth and became the nutriment of the pure (vital) spirit. 460
  • اصل نعمتها ز گردون تا بخاک ** زیر آمد شد غذای جان پاک

  • Forasmuch as it came down from Heaven on account of humility, it became part of the living and valiant man.
  • از تواضع چون ز گردون شد بزیر ** گشت جزو آدمی حی دلیر

  • Hence that inanimate matter (rain and sunlight) was turned into human qualities and soared joyously above the empyrean,
  • پس صفات آدمی شد آن جماد ** بر فراز عرش پران گشت شاد

  • Saying, “We came at first from the living world, and have (now) gone back from below to above.”
  • کز جهان زنده ز اول آمدیم ** باز از پستی سوی بالا شدیم

  • All particles (of phenomenal being), (whether) in movement (or) at rest, are speakers (and declare): “Verily, to Him we are returning.”
  • جمله اجزا در تحرک در سکون ** ناطقان که انا الیه راجعون

  • The praises and glorifications of the hidden particles have filled Heaven with an uproar. 465
  • ذکر و تسبیحات اجزای نهان ** غلغلی افکند اندر آسمان

  • When the Decree (of God) set out to (use) enchantments, the countryman checkmated a townsman.
  • چون قضا آهنگ نارنجات کرد ** روستایی شهریی را مات کرد

  • Notwithstanding thousands of (good) resolutions, the Khwája was checkmated, and from that journey (which he undertook) he fell into the midst of calamities.
  • با هزاران حزم خواجه مات شد ** زان سفر در معرض آفات شد

  • His reliance was upon his own firmness, (but) though he was (as) a mountain, a half-flood swept him away.
  • اعتمادش بر ثبات خویش بود ** گرچه که بد نیم سیلش در ربود

  • When the Decree puts forth its head from Heaven, all the intelligent become blind and deaf;
  • چون قضا بیرون کند از چرخ سر ** عاقلان گردند جمله کور و کر

  • Fishes are cast out of the sea; the snare catches miserably the flying bird. 470
  • ماهیان افتند از دریا برون ** دام گیرد مرغ پران را زبون

  • Even genie and demon go into the bottle; nay, a Hárút goes into (the pit of) Babylon.
  • تا پری و دیو در شیشه شود ** بلک هاروتی به بابل در رود

  • (All are lost) except that one who has taken refuge with the Decree: his blood no (astrological) quadrature (ever) shed.
  • جز کسی کاندر قضا اندر گریخت ** خون او را هیچ تربیعی نریخت

  • Except that you take refuge with the Decree, no contrivance will give you release from it.
  • غیر آن که در گریزی در قضا ** هیچ حیله ندهدت از وی رها

  • The Story of the people of Zarwán and how they contrived that they should pick the fruit in their orchards without being troubled by the poor.
  • قصه‌ی اهل ضروان و حیلت کردن ایشان تا بی زحمت درویشان باغها را قطاف کنند

  • You have read the story of the people of Zarwán: then why have you persisted in seeking expedients?
  • قصه‌ی اصحاب ضروان خوانده‌ای ** پس چرا در حیله‌جویی مانده‌ای

  • Several (noxious) men who stung like scorpions were contriving that they might cut off part of the daily bread of some poor folk. 475
  • حیله می‌کردند کزدم‌نیش چند ** که برند از روزی درویش چند

  • During the night, the whole night, they were devising a plot; many a ‘Amr and Bakr had put their faces together.
  • شب همه شب می‌سگالیدند مکر ** روی در رو کرده چندین عمرو و بکر

  • Those wicked men were speaking their inmost thoughts in secret, lest God should discover it.
  • خفیه می‌گفتند سرها آن بدان ** تا نباید که خدا در یابد آن

  • Did the clay devise (evil) against the Plasterer? Is the hand doing any work that is hidden from the heart?
  • با گل انداینده اسگالید گل ** دست کاری می‌کند پنهان ز دل

  • He (God) hath said, “Doth not He who created (thee) know thy desire, (doth not He know) whether in thy secret conversation there is sincerity or cajolery?”
  • گفت الا یعلم هواک من خلق ** ان فی نجواک صدقا ام ملق

  • He hath said, "Shall He be forgetful of a traveller who has set out at morn, One who sees plainly where shall be his lodging to-morrow?" 480
  • گفت یغفل عن ظعین قد غدا ** من یعاین این مثواه غدا

  • Wheresoever he has descended or mounted, He hath taken charge of it and reckoned (it) up by number.
  • اینما قد هبطا او صعدا ** قد تولاه و احصی عددا

  • Now purge your ear of forgetfulness and listen to the separation (forlorn plight) of the sorrowful one.
  • گوش را اکنون ز غفلت پاک کن ** استماع هجر آن غمناک کن

  • Know that when you set your ear to his tale, that is the alms which you give to the sad;
  • آن زکاتی دان که غمگین را دهی ** گوش را چون پیش دستانش نهی

  • (For) you will hear the sorrows of the heart-sick—the starvation of the noble spirit by the water and clay (of the body).
  • بشنوی غمهای رنجوران دل ** فاقه‌ی جان شریف از آب و گل

  • (Though it is) one filled with knowledge, it hath a house filled with smoke: open a window for it by listening. 485
  • خانه‌ی پر دود دارد پر فنی ** مر ورا بگشا ز اصغا روزنی