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  • Staves and lances and scimitars, so that (even) lions would tremble in awe;
  • دور باش و نیزه و شمشیرها ** که بلرزند از مهابت شیرها

  • The shouts of sergeants with their maces, by the terror of which (men's) souls are enfeebled.
  • بانگ چاوشان و آن چوگانها ** که شود سست از نهیبش جانها

  • This is for the high and low in the street, to announce to them (the presence of) an emperor. 3775
  • این برای خاص وعام ره‌گذر ** که کندشان از شهنشاهی خبر

  • This pomp is for the sake of the vulgar, that those people may not put on the tiara of arrogance;
  • از برای عام باشد این شکوه ** تا کلاه کبر ننهند آن گروه

  • That it may break their egoism and that the self-conceited carnal soul may not work mischief and evil.
  • تا من و ماهای ایشان بشکند ** نفس خودبین فتنه و شر کم کند

  • The country is preserved from that by the king's having force and authority to inflict punishment.
  • شهر از آن آمن شود کان شهریار ** دارد اندر قهر زخم و گیر و دار

  • Therefore those vain desires are extinguished in (men's) souls: awe of the king prevents that disaster.
  • پس بمیرد آن هوسها در نفوس ** هیبت شه مانع آید زان نحوس

  • Again, when he (the king) comes to the private banquet, how should awe or retaliation be (in place) there? 3780
  • باز چون آید به سوی بزم خاص ** کی بود آنجا مهابت یا قصاص

  • There clemency on clemency is (shown) and mercies overflowing; you will hear no noise but that of the harp and flute.
  • حلم در حلمست و رحمتها به جوش ** نشنوی از غیر چنگ و ناخروش

  • In time of war there is the terrible drum and kettle-drum; in the hour of feasting with favourites there is (only) the sound of the harp.
  • طبل و کوس هول باشد وقت جنگ ** وقت عشرت با خواص آواز چنگ

  • The Board of Audit is for the vulgar, while the fair ones resembling peris are for the cup-companion.
  • هست دیوان محاسب عام را ** وان پری رویان حریف جام را

  • The coat of mail and the helmet are for the battle, while this silken raiment and music are for the bower.
  • آن زره وآن خود مر چالیش‌راست ** وین حریر و رود مر تعریش‌راست

  • This topic hath no end, O generous one: conclude it, and God best knoweth the right course. 3785
  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای جواد ** ختم کن والله اعلم بالرشاد

  • The (corporeal) senses in Ahmad (Mohammed), which are mortal, are now laid asleep under the soil of Yathrib (Medina),
  • اندر احمد آن حسی کو غاربست ** خفته این دم زیر خاک یثربست

  • But that mighty-natured part of him, which is unconquerable, dwells, without having suffered corruption, within the abode of truth (in Paradise).
  • وآن عظیم الخلق او کان صفدرست ** بی‌تغیر مقعد صدق اندرست

  • The bodily attributes are exposed to corruption; the everlasting spirit is a shining sun,
  • جای تغییرات اوصاف تنست ** روح باقی آفتابی روشنست

  • Incorruptible, for it is not of the east; unchangeable, for it is not of the west.
  • بی ز تغییری که لا شرقیة ** بی ز تبدیلی که لا غربیة

  • How was the sun (ever) dumbfounded by a mote? How was the candle (ever) made senseless by a moth? 3790
  • آفتاب از ذره کی مدهوش شد ** شمع از پروانه کی بیهوش شد

  • The body of Ahmad was liable to that (corruption): know that this corruption belongs (only) to the body,
  • جسم احمد را تعلق بد بدآن ** این تغیر آن تن باشد بدان

  • Such as sickness and sleep and pain; the spirit is untouched by these affections and wholly detached (from them).
  • هم‌چو رنجوری و هم‌چون خواب و درد ** جان ازین اوصاف باشد پاک و فرد

  • Indeed I cannot describe the spirit, and if I describe it, quaking would fall upon this (world of) phenomenal existence and spatiality.
  • خود نتانم ور بگويم وصف جان ** زلزله افتد در اين كون و مكان

  • If its fox (the body) was perturbed for a moment, belike the lion-spirit was then asleep.
  • روبهش گر یک دمی آشفته بود ** شیر جان مانا که آن دم خفته بود

  • That lion which is immune from sleep was (apparently) asleep: lo, a complaisant terrible lion! 3795
  • خفته بود آن شیر کز خوابست پاک ** اینت شیر نرمسار سهمناک

  • The lion feigns to be asleep so (well) that those curs think he is quite dead;
  • خفته سازد شیر خود را آنچنان ** که تمامش مرده دانند این سگان

  • Else, who in the world would dare to rob a poor man (even) of a grain of turpeth mineral?
  • ورنه در عالم کرا زهره بدی ** که ربودی از ضعیفی تربدی

  • The foam (body) of Ahmad was torn (powerfully affected) by that sight (of Gabriel), (but) his sea (spirit) surged up (displayed itself in action) for love of the foam.
  • کف احمد زان نظر مخدوش گشت ** بحر او از مهر کف پرجوش گشت

  • The moon (the spirit of Ahmad) is entirely a bounteous light-diffusing hand: if the moon have no hand (with which to bestow light), let it have none!
  • مه همه کفست معطی نورپاش ** ماه را گر کف نباشد گو مباش

  • If Ahmad should display that glorious pinion (his spiritual nature), Gabriel would remain dumbfounded unto everlasting. 3800
  • احمد ار بگشاید آن پر جلیل ** تا ابد بیهوش ماند جبرئیل

  • When Ahmad passed beyond the Lote-tree (on the boundary of Paradise) and his (Gabriel's) place of watch and station and farthest limit,
  • چون گذشت احمد ز سدره و مرصدش ** وز مقام جبرئیل و از حدش

  • He said to him (Gabriel), “Hark, fly after me.” He (Gabriel) said, “Go, go; I am not thy companion (any farther).”
  • گفت او را هین بپر اندر پیم ** گفت رو رو من حریف تو نیم

  • He answered him, saying, “Come, O destroyer of veils: I have not yet advanced to my zenith.”
  • باز گفت او را بیا ای پرده‌سوز ** من باوج خود نرفتستم هنوز

  • He replied, “O my illustrious friend, if I take one flight beyond this limit, my wings will be consumed.”
  • گفت بیرون زین حد ای خوش‌فر من ** گر زنم پری بسوزد پر من

  • This tale of the elect losing their senses in (contemplation of) the most elect is (naught but) amazement on amazement. 3805
  • حیرت اندر حیرت آمد این قصص ** بیهشی خاصگان اندر اخص

  • Here all (other) unconsciousnesses are (a mere) play. How long will you keep possession of your soul? for it is (a case of) abandoning your soul.
  • بیهشیها جمله اینجا بازیست ** چند جان داری که جان پردازیست

  • O “Gabriel,” though you are noble and revered, you are not the moth nor the candle either.
  • جبرئیلا گر شریفی و عزیز ** تو نه‌ای پروانه و نه شمع نیز

  • When the candle calls at the moment of illumination, the soul of the moth does not shrink from burning.
  • شمع چون دعوت کند وقت فروز ** جان پروانه نپرهیزد ز سوز

  • Bury this topsy-turvy discourse: make the lion contrariously the prey of the onager.
  • این حدیث منقلب را گور کن ** شیر را برعکس صید گور کن

  • Stop up thy word-sweating water-skin, do not open the bag of thy reckless talk. 3810
  • بند کن مشک سخن‌شاشیت را ** وا مکن انبان قلماشیت را

  • He whose (intellectual and spiritual) parts have not passed beyond the earth— this is absurd and reckless talk in his view.
  • آنک بر نگذشت اجزاش از زمین ** پیش او معکوس و قلماشیست این

  • Do not resist them, O my beloved; deal gently with them, O stranger lodging in their home.
  • لا تخالفهم حبیبی دارهم ** یا غریبا نازلا فی دارهم

  • Give (them) what they wish and desire, and satisfy them, O emigrant dwelling in their land.
  • اعط ما شائوا وراموا وارضهم ** یا ظعینا ساکنا فی‌ارضهم

  • Till (the hour of) coming to the king and to sweet delight, O man of Rayy be on good terms with the man of Merv.
  • تا رسیدن در شه و در ناز خوش ** رازیا با مرغزی می‌ساز خویش

  • O “Moses,” in presence of the Pharaoh of the time you must speak softly with mild words. 3815
  • موسیا در پیش فرعون زمن ** نرم باید گفت قولا لینا

  • If you put water into boiling oil, you will destroy (both) the trivet and the kettle.
  • آب اگر در روغن جوشان کنی ** دیگدان و دیگ را ویران کنی

  • Speak softly, but do not speak aught except the truth: do not offer temptation in your mildness of address.
  • نرم گو لیکن مگو غیر صواب ** وسوسه مفروش در لین الخطاب

  • The time of afternoon is come: cut short the discourse, O thou whose expression (of the hidden truth) makes (the people of) the age acquainted (with reality).
  • وقت عصر آمد سخن کوتاه کن ** ای که عصرت عصر را آگاه کن

  • Do thou tell the clay-eater that sugar is better: do not show injurious softness, do not give him clay.
  • گو تو مر گل‌خواره را که قند به ** نرمی فاسد مکن طینش مده

  • Speech would be a spiritual garden to the soul, if it were independent of letters and sounds. 3820
  • نطق جان را روضه‌ی جانیستی ** گر ز حرف و صوت مستغنیستی

  • Oh, there is many a one in whom this donkey's head amidst the sugar plantation has fixed a thorn!
  • این سر خر در میان قندزار ** ای بسا کس را که بنهادست خار

  • He, (seeing it) from afar, supposed that it (the sugar-plantation) is just that (donkey's head), nothing more; (so) he was retiring, like a ram vanquished in fight.
  • ظن ببرد از دور کان آنست و بس ** چون قج مغلوب وا می‌رفت پس