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195-244

  • The Súfí said, ‘We are poor and wretched and inferior (in station); this lady's family are rich and respected. 195
  • گفت صوفی ما فقیر و زار و کم ** قوم خاتون مال‌دار و محتشم

  • How should this (girl) be an equal match for them in marriage?—one folding door of wood and another of ivory!
  • کی بود این کفو ایشان در زواج ** یک در از چوب و دری دیگر ز عاج

  • In wedlock both the partners must be equal, otherwise it will pinch, and (their) happiness will not endure.’
  • کفو باید هر دو جفت اندر نکاح ** ورنه تنگ آید نماند ارتیاح

  • How the wife said that she (the lady) was not bent upon household goods, and that what she wanted was modesty and virtue; and how the Súfí answered her (his wife) cryptically.
  • گفتن زن کی او در بند جهاز نیست مراد او ستر و صلاحست و جواب گفتن صوفی این را سرپوشیده

  • She (the wife) said, ‘I gave such an excuse, but she said, No, I am not one who seeks (worldly) means.
  • گفت گفتم من چنین عذری و او ** گفت نه من نیستم اسباب جو

  • We are sick and surfeited with possessions and gold; we are not like the common folk in regard to coveting and amassing (wealth).
  • ما ز مال و زر ملول و تخمه‌ایم ** ما به حرص و جمع نه چون عامه‌ایم

  • Our quest is (for) modesty and purity and virtue: truly, welfare in both worlds depends on that.’ 200
  • قصد ما سترست و پاکی و صلاح ** در دو عالم خود بدان باشد فلاح

  • The Súfí once more made the excuse of poverty and repeated it, so that it should not be hidden.
  • باز صوفی عذر درویشی بگفت ** و آن مکرر کرد تا نبود نهفت

  • The wife replied, ‘I too have repeated it and have explained our lack of household goods;
  • گفت زن من هم مکرر کرده‌ام ** بی‌جهازی را مقرر کرده‌ام

  • (But) her resolution is firmer than a mountain, for she is not dismayed by a hundred poverties.
  • اعتقاد اوست راسختر ز کوه ** که ز صد فقرش نمی‌آید شکوه

  • She keeps saying, What I want is chastity: the thing sought from you is sincerity and high-mindedness.’
  • او همی‌گوید مرادم عفتست ** از شما مقصود صدق و همتست

  • The Súfí said, ‘In sooth she has seen and is seeing our household goods and possessions, (both) the overt and the covert— 205
  • گفت صوفی خود جهاز و مال ما ** دید و می‌بیند هویدا و خفا

  • A narrow house, a dwelling-place for a single person, where a needle would not remain hid.
  • خانه‌ی تنگی مقام یک تنی ** که درو پنهان نماند سوزنی

  • Moreover, she in (her) guilelessness knows better than we (what is) modesty and purity and renunciation and virtue.
  • باز ستر و پاکی و زهد و صلاح ** او ز ما به داند اندر انتصاح

  • She knows better than we (all) the aspects of modesty, and the rear and front and head and tail of modesty.
  • به ز ما می‌داند او احوال ستر ** وز پس و پیش و سر و دنبال ستر

  • Evidently she (our daughter) is without household goods and servant, and she (the lady) herself is well-acquainted with virtue and modesty.
  • ظاهرا او بی‌جهاز و خادمست ** وز صلاح و ستر او خود عالمست

  • It is not required of a father to dilate on (his daughter's) modesty, when in her it is manifest as a bright day.’ 210
  • شرح مستوری ز بابا شرط نیست ** چون برو پیدا چو روز روشنیست

  • I have told this story with the intent that thou mayst not weave idle talk when the offence is glaring.
  • این حکایت را بدان گفتم که تا ** لاف کم بافی چو رسوا شد خطا

  • O thou who art likewise excessive in thy pretension, to thee (in thy case) there has been this (same hypocritical) exertion and (vain) belief.
  • مر ترا ای هم به دعوی مستزاد ** این بدستت اجتهاد و اعتقاد

  • Thou hast been unfaithful, like the Súfí's wife: thou hast opened in fraud the snare of cunning,
  • چون زن صوفی تو خاین بوده‌ای ** دام مکر اندر دغا بگشوده‌ای

  • For thou art ashamed before every dirty braggart, and not before thy God.
  • که ز هر ناشسته رویی کپ زنی ** شرم داری وز خدای خویش نی

  • The purpose for which God is called Samí‘ (Hearing) and Basír (Seeing).
  • غرض از سمیع و بصیر گفتن خدا را

  • God has called Himself Basír (Seeing), in order that His seeing thee may at every moment be a deterrent (against sin). 215
  • از پی آن گفت حق خود را بصیر ** که بود دید ویت هر دم نذیر

  • God has called Himself Samí‘ (Hearing), in order that thou mayst close thy lips (and refrain) from foul speech.
  • از پی آن گفت حق خود را سمیع ** تا ببندی لب ز گفتار شنیع

  • God has called Himself ‘Alím (Knowing), in order that thou mayst fear to meditate a wicked deed.
  • از پی آن گفت حق خود را علیم ** تا نیندیشی فسادی تو ز بیم

  • These are not proper names applicable to God: (proper names are merely designations), for even a negro may have the name Káfúr (Camphor).
  • نیست اینها بر خدا اسم علم ** که سیه کافور دارد نام هم

  • The Names (of God) are derivative and (denote) Eternal Attributes: (they are) not unsound like (the doctrine of) the First Cause.
  • اسم مشتقست و اوصاف قدیم ** نه مثال علت اولی سقیم

  • Otherwise, it would be ridicule and mockery and deception, (like calling) a deaf person Samí‘ (Hearer) and blind men Ziyá (Radiance); 220
  • ورنه تسخر باشد و طنز و دها ** کر را سامع ضریران را ضیا

  • Or (as though) Hayí (Bashful) should be the proper name of an impudent fellow, or Sabíh (Beautiful) the name of a hideous blackamoor.
  • یا علم باشد حیی نام وقیح ** یا سیاه زشت را نام صبیح

  • You may confer the title of Hájjí (Pilgrim) or Ghází (Holy Warrior) on a newborn child for the purpose of (indicating his) lineage;
  • طفلک نوزاده را حاجی لقب ** یا لقب غازی نهی بهر نسب

  • (But) if these titles are used in praise, they are not correct unless he (the person so described) possess that (particular) quality.
  • گر بگویند این لقبها در مدیح ** تا ندارد آن صفت نبود صحیح

  • (Otherwise), it would be a ridicule and mockery (so to use them), or madness: God is clear of (untouched by) what the unrighteous say.
  • تسخر و طنزی بود آن یا جنون ** پاک حق عما یقول الظالمون

  • I knew, before (our meeting), that thou art good-looking but evil-natured; 225
  • من همی دانستمت پیش از وصال ** که نکورویی ولیکن بدخصال

  • I knew, before coming face to face (with thee), that by reason of contumacy thou art set fast in damnation.
  • من همی دانستمت پیش از لقا ** کز ستیزه راسخی اندر شقا

  • When my eye is red in ophthalmia, I know it (the redness) is from the disease, (even) if I do not see it (the redness).
  • چونک چشمم سرخ باشد در غمش ** دانمش زان درد گر کم بینمش

  • Thou deemedst me as a lamb without the shepherd, thou thoughtest that I have none keeping watch (over me).
  • تو مرا چون بره دیدی بی شبان ** تو گمان بردی ندارم پاسبان

  • The cause why lovers have moaned in grief is that they have rubbed their eyes malapropos.
  • عاشقان از درد زان نالیده‌اند ** که نظر ناجایگه مالیده‌اند

  • They have regarded that Gazelle as being shepherdless, they have regarded that Captive as (one who may be taken) cost-free, 230
  • بی‌شبان دانسته‌اند آن ظبی را ** رایگان دانسته‌اند آن سبی را

  • Till (suddenly) an arrow from the glance (of Divine jealousy) comes (descends) upon the heart, (as though) to say, ‘I am the Keeper: do not look wantonly.
  • تا ز غمزه تیر آمد بر جگر ** که منم حارس گزافه کم نگر

  • How am I meaner than a lamb, meaner than a kid, that there should not be a keeper behind me?
  • کی کم از بره کم از بزغاله‌ام ** که نباشد حارس از دنباله‌ام

  • I have a Keeper whom it beseems to hold dominion: He knoweth the wind that blows upon me.
  • حارسی دارم که ملکش می‌سزد ** داند او بادی که آن بر من وزد

  • Whether that wind was cold or hot, that Knowing One is not unaware, is not absent, O infirm man.
  • سرد بود آن باد یا گرم آن علیم ** نیست غافل نیست غایب ای سقیم

  • The appetitive soul is deaf and blind to God: I with my heart was seeing thy blindness from afar. 235
  • نفس شهوانی ز حق کرست و کور ** من به دل کوریت می‌دیدم ز دور

  • For eight years I did not inquire after thee at all, because I saw thee (to be) full of ignorance, fold on fold.
  • هشت سالت زان نپرسیدم به هیچ ** که پرت دیدم ز جهل پیچ پیچ

  • Why, indeed, should I inquire after one who is in t he bath-stove (of lust), and say (to him) ‘How art thou?’ when he is (plunged) headlong (in sensuality)?
  • خود چه پرسم آنک او باشد بتون ** که تو چونی چون بود او سرنگون

  • Comparison of this world to a bath-stove and of piety to the bath.
  • مثال دنیا چون گولخن و تقوی چون حمام

  • The lust of this world is like the bath-stove by which the bath, piety, is (made) resplendent;
  • شهوت دنیا مثال گلخنست ** که ازو حمام تقوی روشنست

  • But the pious man's portion from this stove is (naught but) purity, because he is in the hot-bath and in cleanliness.
  • لیک قسم متقی زین تون صفاست ** زانک در گرمابه است و در نقاست

  • The rich resemble those who carry dung for the bath-keeper's fire-making. 240
  • اغنیا ماننده‌ی سرگین‌کشان ** بهر آتش کردن گرمابه‌بان

  • God hath implanted cupidity in them, in order that the bath may be hot and well-provided.
  • اندریشان حرص بنهاده خدا ** تا بود گرمابه گرم و با نوا

  • Abandon this stove and advance into the hot-bath: know that abandonment of the stove is the very essence of that bath.
  • ترک این تون گوی و در گرمابه ران ** ترک تون را عین آن گرمابه دان

  • Any one who is in the stove is as a servant to him that is self-denying and on his guard.
  • هر که در تونست او چون خادمست ** مر ورا که صابرست و حازمست

  • Whosoever has entered the bath, his (characteristic) sign is visible upon his comely face.
  • هر که در حمام شد سیمای او ** هست پیدا بر رخ زیبای او