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1994-2043

  • The foundation of an army is unquestionably the chief in command: a people without a chief are a body without a head.
  • اصل لشکر بی‌گمان سرور بود ** قوم بی‌سرور تن بی‌سر بود

  • That you are (spiritually) dead and decrepit—all this is because you have abandoned the chief. 1995
  • این همه که مرده و پژمرده‌ای ** زان بود که ترک سرور کرده‌ای

  • On account of laziness and avarice and egoism you are drawing your head back (behaving in a headstrong manner) and making yourself the head.
  • از کسل وز بخل وز ما و منی ** می‌کشی سر خویش را سر می‌کنی

  • (You are) like the beast that flees from the burden: it takes its head (goes its own way) into the mountains.
  • هم‌چو استوری که بگریزد ز بار ** او سر خود گیرد اندر کوهسار

  • Its master is running after it, crying, “O giddy-headed one, on every side there is a wolf in quest of an ass.
  • صاحبش در پی دوان کای خیره سر ** هر طرف گرگیست اندر قصد خر

  • If thou disappear now from mine eye, the mighty wolf will approach thee from every direction.
  • گر ز چشمم این زمان غایب شوی ** پیشت آید هر طرف گرگ قوی

  • He will chew thy bones like sugar, so that thou wilt never see life again. 2000
  • استخوانت را بخاید چون شکر ** که نبینی زندگانی را دگر

  • (Or) do not suppose that (immediate destruction); at any rate thou wilt be left without fodder: fire is (finally) extinguished by lack of faggots.
  • آن مگیر آخر بمانی از علف ** آتش از بی‌هیزمی گردد تلف

  • Beware! Do not flee from my control and from the heaviness of the burden, for I am thy (rational) soul.”
  • هین بمگریز از تصرف کردنم ** وز گرانی بار که جانت منم

  • You also are a beast (of burden), for your carnal soul predominates: the predominant (quality) determines (a thing's nature), O worshipper of self.
  • تو ستوری هم که نفست غالبست ** حکم غالب را بود ای خودپرست

  • The Almighty did not call you an ass, He called you a horse: the Arabs say to the Arab horse “ta‘ál” (“come”).
  • خر نخواندت اسپ خواندت ذوالجلال ** اسپ تازی را عرب گوید تعال

  • Mustafá (Mohammed) was God's stable-overseer for the beasts, (which are) the iniquitous carnal soul. 2005
  • میر آخر بود حق را مصطفی ** بهر استوران نفس پر جفا

  • Moved by lovingkindness, He (God) said, “Say, ‘ta‘álaw (come ye), to the end that I may train you: I am the trainer.’”
  • قل تعالوا گفت از جذب کرم ** تا ریاضتتان دهم من رایضم

  • (The Prophet said), “Since I have trained the carnal souls, I have suffered many kicks from these beasts.
  • نفسها را تا مروض کرده‌ام ** زین ستوران بس لگدها خورده‌ام

  • Wherever there is one fond of training, he hath no means of avoiding kicks.
  • هر کجا باشد ریاضت‌باره‌ای ** از لگدهااش نباشد چاره‌ای

  • Of necessity the most affliction falls on the prophets, for ’tis an affliction to give training to the raw (ignorant).
  • لاجرم اغلب بلا بر انبیاست ** که ریاضت دادن خامان بلاست

  • Ye are stumbling along: at my word (in obedience to my command) go at a jog-trot, that ye may become gentle and be suitable for the king to ride. 2010
  • سکسکانید از دمم یرغا روید ** تا یواش و مرکب سلطان شوید

  • The Lord said, ‘Say, Come ye, say, Come ye, O beasts that have shied away from discipline.
  • قل تعالوا قل تعالو گفت رب ** ای ستوران رمیده از ادب

  • If they come not, O Prophet, be not grieved: be not full of hatred on account of those twain without steadfastness.’”
  • گر نیایند ای نبی غمگین مشو ** زان دو بی‌تمکین تو پر از کین مشو

  • The ears of some are deaf to these (cries of) ta‘álaw: every beast hath a different stable.
  • گوش بعضی زین تعالواها کرست ** هر ستوری را صطبلی دیگرست

  • Some are put to flight by this call: the stall of every horse is separate.
  • منهزم گردند بعضی زین ندا ** هست هر اسپی طویله‌ی او جدا

  • Some are chagrined by this story, for every bird hath a separate cage. 2015
  • منقبض گردند بعضی زین قصص ** زانک هر مرغی جدا دارد قفص

  • Even the angels too were not peers: for this reason they formed diverse ranks in Heaven.
  • خود ملایک نیز ناهمتا بدند ** زین سبب بر آسمان صف صف شدند

  • Children, though they are at one (the same) school, surpass each other in (their) lessons.
  • کودکان گرچه به یک مکتب درند ** در سبق هر یک ز یک بالاترند

  • Sense-perceptions are possessed by Easterner and Westerner, (but) the function of sight belongs to the ocular sense (alone).
  • مشرقی و مغربی را حسهاست ** منصب دیدار حس چشم‌راست

  • Though a hundred thousand ears be arrayed in rank, they all are in need of the clear eye.
  • صد هزاران گوشها گر صف زنند ** جمله محتاجان چشم روشن‌اند

  • Again, the ranks of ears have a (special) function in respect of hearing the (words of the) Spirit and the Traditions (of the Prophet) and the Revelation. 2020
  • باز صف گوشها را منصبی ** در سماع جان و اخبار و نبی

  • A hundred thousand eyes do not possess that avenue (faculty): no eye is acquainted with hearing.
  • صد هزاران چشم را آن راه نیست ** هیچ چشمی از سماع آگاه نیست

  • Similarly, enumerate each sense, one by one: each one is removed from (incapable of doing) the work of another.
  • هم‌چنین هر حس یک یک می‌شمر ** هر یکی معزول از آن کار دگر

  • The five external and the five internal senses are (arrayed) in ten ranks in the standing posture of the (angels) ranked (for worship of God).
  • پنج حس ظاهر و پنج اندرون ** ده صف‌اند اندر قیام الصافون

  • Any one who (disobediently) draws back from the rank of (the true) religion will go into the rank that is behind.
  • هر کسی کو از صف دین سرکشست ** می‌رود سوی صفی کان واپسست

  • Do not make little of the (Divine) Word ta‘álaw (come ye): this Word is an exceedingly great elixir. 2025
  • تو ز گفتار تعالوا کم مکن ** کیمیای بس شگرفست این سخن

  • If a copper (a base person) turn away in repugnance from your saying (this Word), by no means withhold the elixir from him.
  • گر مسی گردد ز گفتارت نفیر ** کیمیا را هیچ از وی وام گیر

  • If his magician-like soul has bound (cast a spell upon) him at the present time, (yet) your saying will profit him in his latter end.
  • این زمان گر بست نفس ساحرش ** گفت تو سودش کند در آخرش

  • O slave (of God), say, Come ye, say, Come ye: take heed, for verily God inviteth unto the (Abode of) Peace.
  • قل تعالوا قل تعالوا ای غلام ** هین که ان الله یدعوا للسلام

  • Then come back, sire, from egoism and headship: seek a leader, do not desire leadership.
  • خواجه باز آ از منی و از سری ** سروری جو کم طلب کن سروری

  • How an objector objected to the Prophet's—on whom be peace— appointing the man of Hudhayl to be commander.
  • اعتراض کردن معترضی بر رسول علیه‌السلام بر امیر کردن آن هذیلی

  • When the Prophet appointed a leader from (the tribe of) Hudhayl for the army whose troops were Divinely aided, 2030
  • چون پیمبر سروری کرد از هذیل ** از برای لشکر منصور خیل

  • An insolent fellow, through envy, could not endure (to keep silence): he raised objection and opposition.
  • بوالفضولی از حسد طاقت نداشت ** اعتراض و لانسلم بر فراشت

  • Behold humankind, how dark (unenlightened) they are, and how they are perishing in (desire for) a perishable piece of goods.
  • خلق را بنگر که چون ظلمانی‌اند ** در متاع فانیی چون فانی‌اند

  • On account of pride they all are in separation (from God), dead to the spirit, living in deception.
  • از تکبر جمله اندر تفرقه ** مرده از جان زنده‌اند از مخرقه

  • ’Tis wonderful that the spirit is in prison, and then (all that time) the key of the prison is in its hand!
  • این عجب که جان به زندان اندرست ** وانگهی مفتاح زندانش به دست

  • That youth (the spirit) is plunged in dung from head to foot, (whilst) the flowing river is (almost) touching his skirt! 2035
  • پای تا سر غرق سرگین آن جوان ** می‌زند بر دامنش جوی روان

  • (He is) always moving restlessly from side to side beside the place of repose and the couch where he might recline!
  • دایما پهلو به پهلو بی‌قرار ** پهلوی آرامگاه و پشت‌دار

  • The (Divine) light is hidden, and search is the evidence (of its existence), for the heart (spirit) does not seek shelter in vain.
  • نور پنهانست و جست و جو گواه ** کز گزافه دل نمی‌جوید پناه

  • If this world's prison had no refuge, neither would there be any feeling of aversion nor would the heart seek release.
  • گر نبودی حبس دنیا را مناص ** نه بدی وحشت نه دل جستی خلاص

  • Thy aversion is dragging thee along, like a custodian, saying, “O man astray, seek the path of righteousness.”
  • وحشتت هم‌چون موکل می‌کشد ** که بجو ای ضال منهاج رشد

  • The path is there, but it is hidden in a secret place: its discovery is in pawn to (involves) seeking in vain (before it can be found). 2040
  • هست منهاج و نهان در مکمنست ** یافتش رهن گزافه جستنست

  • Separation is secretly in quest of union: in this seeker do thou discern the face of the sought.
  • تفرقه‌جویان جمع اندر کمین ** تو درین طالب رخ مطلوب بین

  • The dead (trees and plants) of the orchard spring up from the root, saying, “Perceive the Giver of life!”
  • مردگان باغ برجسته ز بن ** کان دهنده‌ی زندگی را فهم کن

  • How should the eyes of these prisoners (of the world) be always (fixed) on (what lies) beyond, if there were no bringer of the good news (of deliverance)?
  • چشم این زندانیان هر دم به در ** کی بدی گر نیستی کس مژده‌ور