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765-814

  • When he had tasted honesty from the noble, he without arrogance (humbly) became devoted to honesty. 765
  • او چو ذوق راستی دید از کرام ** بی تکبر راستی را شد غلام

  • How the jackal which had fallen into the dyer’s vat pretended to be a peacock.
  • دعوی طاوسی کردن آن شغال کی در خم صباغ افتاده بود

  • (In the fashion) that parti-colored jackal came secretly and tapped on the lobe of the rebuker’s ear.
  • و آن شغال رنگ‌رنگ آمد نهفت ** بر بناگوش ملامت‌گر بکفت

  • “Prithee look at me and at my colour: truly the idolater possesses no idol like me.
  • بنگر آخر در من و در رنگ من ** یک صنم چون من ندارد خود شمن

  • Like the flower-garden I have become many-hued and lovely: bow in homage to me, do not withdraw from me (in aversion).
  • چون گلستان گشته‌ام صد رنگ و خوش ** مر مرا سجده کن از من سر مکش

  • Behold my glory and splendour and sheen and radiance and colour! Call me the Pride of the World and the Pillar of the Religion!
  • کر و فر و آب و تاب و رنگ بین ** فخر دنیا خوان مرا و رکن دین

  • I have become the theatre of the Divine Grace, I have become the tablet on which the Divine Majesty is unfolded. 770
  • مظهر لطف خدایی گشته‌ام ** لوح شرح کبریایی گشته‌ام

  • O jackals, take heed, do not call me a jackal: how should a jackal have so much beauty?”
  • ای شغالان هین مخوانیدم شغال ** کی شغالی را بود چندین جمال

  • Those jackals came thither en masse, like moths around the candle.
  • آن شغالان آمدند آنجا بجمع ** همچو پروانه به گرداگرد شمع

  • “Say then, what shall we call thee, O creature of (pure) substance?” He replied, “ A peacock (brilliant) as Jupiter.”
  • پس چه خوانیمت بگو ای جوهری ** گفت طاوس نر چون مشتری

  • Then they said to him, “The spiritual peacocks have displays (with the Beloved) in the Rose-garden:
  • پس بگفتندش که طاوسان جان ** جلوه‌ها دارند اندر گلستان

  • Dost thou display thyself like that?” “No,” said he: “not having gone into the desert, how should I tread (the valley of) Mina?” 775
  • تو چنان جلوه کنی گفتا که نی ** بادیه نارفته چون کوبم منی

  • “Dost thou utter the cry of peacocks?” “Nay,” said he. “Then, Master Bu’l-‘Alam thou art not a peacock.
  • بانگ طاووسان کنی گفتا که لا ** پس نه‌ای طاووس خواجه بوالعلا

  • The peacock’s garment of honour comes from Heaven: how wilt thou attain thereto by means of colours and pretences?”
  • خلعت طاووس آید ز آسمان ** کی رسی از رنگ و دعویها بدان

  • Comparison of Pharaoh and his pretence of divinity to the jackal which pretended to be a peacock.
  • تشبیه فرعون و دعوی الوهیت او بدان شغال کی دعوی طاوسی می‌کرد

  • Thou art even as Pharaoh, who bejeweled his beard and in his asinine folly soared higher than Jesus.
  • همچو فرعونی مرصع کرده ریش ** برتر از عیسی پریده از خریش

  • He too was born of the generation of the she-jackal and fell into a vat of riches and power.
  • او هم از نسل شغال ماده زاد ** در خم مالی و جاهی در فتاد

  • Every one who beheld his power and riches bowed down to him in worship: he swallowed the worship of the idle mockers (worldlings). 780
  • هر که دید آن جاه و مالش سجده کرد ** سجده‌ی افسوسیان را او بخورد

  • That beggar in tattered cloak became miserably drunken with the people’s worship and feelings of amazement.
  • گشت مستک آن گدای ژنده‌دلق ** از سجود و از تحیرهای خلق

  • Riches are a snake, for therein are poisons; and popular favour and worship is a dragon.
  • مال مار آمد که در وی زهرهاست ** و آن قبول و سجده‌ی خلق اژدهاست

  • Ah, do not assume a virtue (which thou dost not possess), O Pharaoh: thou art a jackal, do not in any wise behave as a peacock.
  • های ای فرعون ناموسی مکن ** تو شغالی هیچ طاووسی مکن

  • If thou appear in the direction of the peacocks, thou art in capable of (their) display and thou wilt be put to shame.
  • سوی طاووسان اگر پیدا شوی ** عاجزی از جلوه و رسوا شوی

  • Moses and Aaron were as peacocks: they flapped the wings of display upon thy head and face. 785
  • موسی و هارون چو طاووسان بدند ** پر جلوه بر سر و رویت زدند

  • Thy foulness and disgrace were exposed, thou didst fall head-long from thy height.
  • زشتیت پیدا شد و رسواییت ** سرنگون افتادی از بالاییت

  • When thou sawest the touchstone, thou becamest black, like adulterated coin: the leonine figure vanished, and the dog was revealed.
  • چون محک دیدی سیه گشتی چو قلب ** نقش شیری رفت و پیدا گشت کلب

  • O foul mangy dog, through greed and exuberant insolence do not clothe thyself in the lion’s skin.
  • ای سگ‌گرگین زشت از حرص و جوش ** پوستین شیر را بر خود مپوش

  • The roar of the lion will demand from thee the test (of thy sincerity). The figure of a lion , and then the dispositions of dogs!
  • غره‌ی شیرت بخواهد امتحان ** نقش شیر و آنگه اخلاق سگان

  • Explanation of (the text), And thou wilt surely know them in the perversion of their speech.
  • تفسیر ولتعرفنهم فی لحن القول

  • God said to the Prophet in the course (of the Qur’án), “One sign of the hypocritical is easier (to perceive than other signs): 790
  • گفت یزدان مر نبی را در مساق ** یک نشانی سهل‌تر ز اهل نفاق

  • Though the hypocrite be big, handsome, and terrible, thou wilt recognise him in his perverse enunciation and speech.”
  • گر منافق زفت باشد نغز و هول ** وا شناسی مر ورا در لحن و قول

  • When you are buying earthenware pots, you make a trial, O purchaser.
  • چون سفالین کوزه‌ها را می‌خری ** امتحانی می‌کنی ای مشتری

  • You give the pot a tap with your hand: why? In order that you may know the cracked one by the sound (which it makes).
  • می‌زنی دستی بر آن کوزه چرا ** تا شناسی از طنین اشکسته را

  • The voice of the cracked one is different; the voice is a cháwúsh (beadle): it goes in front of it (the pot).
  • بانگ اشکسته دگرگون می‌بود ** بانگ چاووشست پیشش می‌رود

  • The voice comes in order to make it known: it determines (the character of) it, as the verb (determines the form of) the masdar (verbal noun). 795
  • بانگ می‌آید که تعریفش کند ** همچو مصدر فعل تصریفش کند

  • When the subject of (Divine) probation cropped up, the story of Hárút at once came into my memory.
  • چون حدیث امتحان رویی نمود ** یادم آمد قصه‌ی هاروت زود

  • The Story of Hárút and Márút and their boldness in encountering the probations of God most High.
  • قصه‌ی هاروت و ماروت و دلیری ایشان بر امتحانات حق تعالی

  • Before this (occasion), we had told a little of it: what, indeed, should we tell? (We can tell only) one (item) of its thousands.
  • پیش ازین زان گفته بودیم اندکی ** خود چه گوییم از هزارانش یکی

  • I wished to speak of the (spiritual) truths (contained) in it, (but) till now they have remained (untold) on account of hindrances.
  • خواستم گفتن در آن تحقیقها ** تا کنون وا ماند از تعویقها

  • (Now) once again a little of its much shall be told—the description (as it were) of a single limb of the elephant.
  • حمله‌ی دیگر ز بسیارش قلیل ** گفته آید شرح یک عضوی ز پیل

  • Listen to (the tale of) Hárút and Márút, O thou to whose face we are (devoted) slaves and servants. 800
  • گوش کن هاروت را ماروت را ** ای غلام و چاکران ما روت را

  • They (Hárút and Márút) were intoxicated with the spectacle of God and with the marvels of the King's gradual temptation (of them).
  • مست بودند از تماشای اله ** وز عجایبهای استدراج شاه

  • Such intoxication arises (even) from God's gradual temptation, so that (you may judge) what intoxications are wrought by the ascension to God.
  • این چنین مستیست ز استدراج حق ** تا چه مستیها کند معراج حق

  • The bait in His snare produced intoxication like this: what things, (then), can the table of His bounty reveal!
  • دانه‌ی دامش چنین مستی نمود ** خوان انعامش چه‌ها داند گشود

  • They were drunken and freed from the noose: they were uttering rapturous cries in the fashion of lovers;
  • مست بودند و رهیده از کمند ** های هوی عاشقانه می‌زدند

  • (But) in their road there was one ambush and trial: its mighty wind would sweep the mountain away like straw. 805
  • یک کمین و امتحان در راه بود ** صرصرش چون کاه که را می‌ربود

  • The (Divine) trial was turning them upside down, (but) how should one that is drunken have consciousness of these things?
  • امتحان می‌کردشان زیر و زبر ** کی بود سرمست را زینها خبر

  • To him pit and open field are one, to him dungeon and pit are a pleasant path to tread.
  • خندق و میدان بپیش او یکیست ** چاه و خندق پیش او خوش مسلکیست

  • The mountain-goat runs up that high mountain for the sake of (getting) some harmless food.
  • آن بز کوهی بر آن کوه بلند ** بر دود از بهر خوردی بی‌گزند

  • Whilst he browses, suddenly he sees another trick played by the ordinance of Heaven.
  • تا علف چیند ببیند ناگهان ** بازیی دیگر ز حکم آسمان

  • He casts his gaze upon another mountain: on that other mountain he espies a she-goat. 810
  • بر کهی دیگر بر اندازد نظر ** ماده بز بیند بر آن کوه دگر

  • Straightway his eye is darkened: he leaps madly from this mountain to that.
  • چشم او تاریک گردد در زمان ** بر جهد سرمست زین که تا بدان

  • To him it seems as near (and easy) as to run round the sink (in the court) of a house.
  • آنچنان نزدیک بنماید ورا ** که دویدن گرد بالوعه‌ی سرا

  • Those thousands of ells (are made to) appear to him (as) two ells, in order that from mad infatuation the impulse to leap may come to him.
  • آن هزاران گز دو گز بنمایدش ** تا ز مستی میل جستن آیدش

  • As soon as he leaps, he falls midway between the two pitiless mountains.
  • چونک بجهد در فتد اندر میان ** در میان هر دو کوه بی امان