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602-651

  • Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’
  • روی پس ناکرده می‌گفتی به شب ** هین گو آمد میل کن در سوی چپ

  • Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’
  • باز گفتی بعد یک دم سوی راست ** میل کن زیرا که خاری پیش پاست

  • Day would break: we would come to kiss his foot, and his foot would be like the feet of a bride,
  • روز گشتی پاش را ما پای‌بوس ** گشته و پایش چو پاهای عروس

  • No trace of earth or mud on it, none of scratch from thorns or bruise from stones.” 605
  • نه ز خاک و نه ز گل بر وی اثر ** نه از خراش خار و آسیب حجر

  • God made the Maghribí a Mashriqí: He made the place of sunset (maghrib) light-producing like the place of sunrise (mashriq).
  • مغربی را مشرقی کرده خدای ** کرده مغرب را چو مشرق نورزای

  • The light of this one who belongs to the Sun of suns is riding (in majesty): by day he is guarding high and low.
  • نور این شمس شموسی فارس است ** روز خاص و عام را او حارس است

  • How should that glorious light, which brings thousands of suns into view, not be a guardian?
  • چون نباشد حارس آن نور مجید ** که هزاران آفتاب آرد پدید

  • By his light do thou walk always in safety amidst dragons and scorpions.
  • تو به نور او همی رو در امان ** در میان اژدها و کزدمان

  • That holy light is going in front of thee and tearing every highwayman to pieces. 610
  • پیش پیشت می‌رود آن نور پاک ** می‌کند هر ره‌زنی را چاک‌چاک

  • Know aright (the meaning of the text) on the Day when He (God) will not put the Prophet to shame; read (their) light shall run before them.
  • یوم لا یخزی النبی راست دان ** نور یسعی بین ایدیهم بخوان

  • Although that (light) will be increased at the Resurrection, (yet) beg of God (to grant thee) trial (of it) here;
  • گرچه گردد در قیامت آن فزون ** از خدا اینجا بخواهید آزمون

  • For He bestows spiritual light both on cloud and mist, and God best knoweth how to impart (it).
  • کو ببخشد هم به میغ و هم به ماغ ** نور جان والله اعلم بالبلاغ

  • How Solomon, on whom be peace, bade the envoys of Bilqís return to her with the gifts which they had brought; and how he called Bilqís to (accept) the Faith and to abandon sun-worship.
  • بازگردانیدن سلیمان علیه‌السلام رسولان بلقیس را به آن هدیه‌ها کی آورده بودند سوی بلقیس و دعوت کردن بلقیس را به ایمان و ترک آفتاب‌پرستی

  • “O shamefaced envoys, turn back! The gold is yours: bring unto me the heart, the (pure) heart!
  • باز گردید ای رسولان خجل ** زر شما را دل به من آرید دل

  • Lay this gold of mine on the top of that gold (of yours): date corporis caecitatem pudendo mulae.” [Lay this gold of mine on the top of that gold (of yours): give the body’s blindness (its blind desire for gold) to a (female) mule’s private part.”] 615
  • این زر من بر سر آن زر نهید ** کوری تن فرج استر را دهید

  • Annulo aureo pudendum mulae idoneum est; the lover’s gold is the pallid yellow countenance; [A mule’s private part is suitable (as a hiding place) for a ring of gold; the lover’s gold is the pallid yellow countenance;]
  • فرج استر لایق حلقه‌ی زرست ** زر عاشق روی زرد اصفرست

  • For that (countenance) is the object of the Lord’s regard, while the mine (of gold) results from the sun’s casting looks (of favour).
  • که نظرگاه خداوندست آن ** کز نظرانداز خورشیدست کان

  • How can (that which is) the sunbeams’ object of regard be compared with (that which is) an object of regard to the Lord of the quintessence’?
  • کو نظرگاه شعاع آفتاب ** کو نظرگاه خداوند لباب

  • “Make of your souls a shield against my taking (you) captive, though (in truth) ye are my captives even now.”
  • از گرفت من ز جان اسپر کنید ** گرچه اکنون هم گرفتار منید

  • The bird tempted by the bait is (still) on the roof: with wings outspread, it is (nevertheless) imprisoned in the trap. 620
  • مرغ فتنه دانه بر بامست او ** پر گشاده بسته‌ی دامست او

  • Inasmuch as with (all) its soul it has given its heart to (has become enamoured of) the bait, deem it caught, (though apparently it is still) uncaught.
  • چون به دانه داد او دل را به جان ** ناگرفته مر ورا بگرفته دان

  • Deem the looks which it is directing to the bait to be the knot that it is tying on its legs.
  • آن نظرها که به دانه می‌کند ** آن گره دان کو به پا برمی‌زند

  • The bait says, “If thou art stealing thy looks (away from me) I am stealing from thee patience and constancy.
  • دانه گوید گر تو می‌دزدی نظر ** من همی دزدم ز تو صبر و مقر

  • When those looks have drawn thee after me, then thou wilt know that I am not inattentive to thee.”
  • چون کشیدت آن نظر اندر پیم ** پس بدانی کز تو من غافل نیم

  • Story of the druggist whose balance-weight was clay for washing the head; and how a customer, who was a clay-eater, stole some of that clay covertly and secretly, whilst sugar was being weighed.
  • قصه‌ی عطاری کی سنگ ترازوی او گل سرشوی بود و دزدیدن مشتری گل خوار از آن گل هنگام سنجیدن شکر دزدیده و پنهان

  • A certain clay-eater went to a druggist to buy (a quantity of) fine hard sugar-loaf. 625
  • پیش عطاری یکی گل‌خوار رفت ** تا خرد ابلوج قند خاص زفت

  • Now, at the druggist's, (who was) a crafty vigilant man, in place of the balance-weight there was clay.
  • پس بر عطار طرار دودل ** موضع سنگ ترازو بود گل

  • He said, “If you want to buy sugar, my balance-weight is clay.”
  • گفت گل سنگ ترازوی منست ** گر ترا میل شکر بخریدنست

  • He (the customer) said, “I am requiring sugar for an urgent affair: let the balance-weight be whatever you wish.”
  • گفت هستم در مهمی قندجو ** سنگ میزان هر چه خواهی باش گو

  • To himself he said, “What does the weight matter to one that eats clay? Clay is better than gold.”
  • گفت با خود پیش آنک گل‌خورست ** سنگ چه بود گل نکوتر از زرست

  • As the dallála (go-between) who said, “O son, I have found a very beautiful new bride (for you). 630
  • هم‌چو آن دلاله که گفت ای پسر ** نو عروسی یافتم بس خوب‌فر

  • (She is) exceedingly pretty, but there is just one thing, that the lady is a confectioner's daughter.”
  • سخت زیبا لیک هم یک چیز هست ** که آن ستیره دختر حلواگرست

  • “(All the) better,” said he; “if it is indeed so, his daughter will be fatter and sweeter.”
  • گفت بهتر این چنین خود گر بود ** دختر او چرب و شیرین‌تر بود

  • “If you have no (proper) weight and your weight is of clay, this is better and better: clay is the fruit (desired) of my heart.”
  • گر نداری سنگ و سنگت از گلست ** این به و به گل مرا میوه‌ی دلست

  • He (the druggist) placed the clay, because of its being ready (to his hand), in one scale of the balance instead of the (proper) weight;
  • اندر آن کفه‌ی ترازو ز اعتداد ** او به جای سنگ آن گل را نهاد

  • Then, for the other scale, he was breaking with his hand the equivalent amount of sugar. 635
  • پس برای کفه‌ی دیگر به دست ** هم به قدر آن شکر را می‌شکست

  • Since he had no pick-axe, he took a long time and made the customer sit waiting.
  • چون نبودش تیشه‌ای او دیر ماند ** مشتری را منتظر آنجا نشاند

  • (Whilst) his face was (turned) towards that (sugar), the clay-eater, unable to restrain himself, began covertly to steal the clay from him,
  • رویش آن سو بود گل‌خور ناشکفت ** گل ازو پوشیده دزدیدن گرفت

  • Terribly frightened lest his (the druggist's) eye should fall upon him of a sudden for the purpose of testing (his honesty).
  • ترس ترسان که نباید ناگهان ** چشم او بر من فتد از امتحان

  • The druggist saw it, but made himself busy, saying, “Come, steal more, O pale-faced one!
  • دید عطار آن و خود مشغول کرد ** که فزون‌تر دزد هین ای روی‌زرد

  • If you will be a thief and take some of my clay, go on (doing so), for you are eating out of your own side. 640
  • گر بدزدی وز گل من می‌بری ** رو که هم از پهلوی خود می‌خوری

  • You are afraid of me, but (only) because you are a (stupid) ass: I am afraid you will eat less (too little).
  • تو همی ترسی ز من لیک از خری ** من همی‌ترسم که تو کمتر خوری

  • Though I am occupied, I am not such a fool (as to suffer) that you should get too much of my sugar-cane.
  • گرچه مشغولم چنان احمق نیم ** که شکر افزون کشی تو از نیم

  • When you see (find) by experience the (amount of) sugar (which you have bought), then you will know who was foolish and careless.”
  • چون ببینی مر شکر را ز آزمود ** پس بدانی احمق و غافل کی بود

  • The bird looks pleased at the bait; still, the bait, (though) at a distance (from it), is waylaying it.
  • مرغ زان دانه نظر خوش می‌کند ** دانه هم از دور راهش می‌زند

  • If you are deriving some pleasure from the eye's cupidity, are not you eating roast-meat from your own side? 645
  • کز زنای چشم حظی می‌بری ** نه کباب از پهلوی خود می‌خوری

  • This looking from a distance is like arrows and poison: your fond passion is increased (thereby) and your self-restraint diminished.
  • این نظر از دور چون تیرست و سم ** عشقت افزون می‌شود صبر تو کم

  • Worldly riches are a trap for the weak birds; the kingdom of the next world is a trap for the noble birds,
  • مال دنیا دام مرغان ضعیف ** ملک عقبی دام مرغان شریف

  • To the end that by means of this kingdom, which is a deep trap, the great birds may be ensnared.
  • تا بدین ملکی که او دامست ژرف ** در شکار آرند مرغان شگرف

  • “I, Solomon, do not desire your kingdom; nay, but I will deliver you from every destruction;
  • من سلیمان می‌نخواهم ملکتان ** بلک من برهانم از هر هلکتان

  • For at this time ye are indeed slaves to the kingdom; the owner of the kingdom is he that escaped from destruction.” 650
  • کین زمان هستید خود مملوک ملک ** مالک ملک آنک بجهید او ز هلک

  • Preposterously, O prisoner of this world, thou hast named thyself prince of this world.
  • بازگونه ای اسیر این جهان ** نام خود کردی امیر این جهان