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  • If thou subject me to the indignity of (receiving) cuffs, I am deserving of a hundred thousand cuffs.
  • صد هزاران صفع را ارزانیم  ** گر زبون صفعها گردانیم 

  • What should I say in thy presence? Should I give thee information or recall to thy mind the method of lovingkindness? 4155
  • من چه گویم پیشت اعلامت کنم  ** یا که وا یادت دهم شرط کرم 

  • What is that which is unknown to thee? And where in the world is that which thou dost not remember?
  • آنچ معلوم تو نبود چیست آن  ** وآنچ یادت نیست کو اندر جهان 

  • O thou who art free from ignorance and whose knowledge is free from (the possibility) that forgetfulness should cause (anything) to be hidden from it,
  • ای تو پاک از جهل و علمت پاک از آن  ** که فراموشی کند بر وی نهان 

  • Thou hast deemed a nobody to be somebody and hast exalted him, like the sun, with (thy) light.
  • هیچ کس را تو کسی انگاشتی  ** هم‌چو خورشیدش به نور افراشتی 

  • Since thou hast made me somebody, graciously hearken to my supplication if I supplicate (thee);
  • چون کسم کردی اگر لابه کنم  ** مستمع شو لابه‌ام را از کرم 

  • For, inasmuch as thou hast transported me from the form (of self-existence), ’tis (really) thou that hast made that intercession unto thyself. 4160
  • زانک از نقشم چو بیرون برده‌ای  ** آن شفاعت هم تو خود را کرده‌ای 

  • Since this home has been emptied of my furniture, nothing great or small in the house belongs to me.
  • چون ز رخت من تهی گشت این وطن  ** تر و خشک خانه نبود آن من 

  • Thou hast caused the prayer to flow forth from me like water: do thou accordingly give it reality and let it be granted.
  • هم دعا از من روان کردی چو آب  ** هم نباتش بخش و دارش مستجاب 

  • Thou wert the bringer (inspirer) of the prayer in the beginning: be thou accordingly the hope for its acceptance in the end,
  • هم تو بودی اول آرنده‌ی دعا  ** هم تو باش آخر اجابت را رجا 

  • In order that I may boast that the King of the world pardoned the sinners for his slave's sake.
  • تا زنم من لاف کان شاه جهان  ** بهر بنده عفو کرد از مجرمان 

  • (Formerly) I was a pain, entirely self-satisfied: the King made me the remedy for every sufferer from pain. 4165
  • درد بودم سر به سر من خودپسند  ** کرد شاهم داروی هر دردمند 

  • (Formerly) I was a Hell filled with woe and bale: the hand of his grace made me a Kawthar.
  • دوزخی بودم پر از شور و شری  ** کرد دست فضل اویم کوثری 

  • Whomsoever Hell has consumed in vengeance, I cause him to grow anew from his body.”
  • هر که را سوزید دوزخ در قود  ** من برویانم دگر بار از جسد 

  • What is the work of (that) Kawthar by which every one that has been burned (in Hell) is made to grow and becomes redintegrated?
  • کار کوثر چیست که هر سوخته  ** گردد از وی نابت و اندوخته 

  • Drop by drop it proclaims its bounty, saying, “I restore that which Hell has consumed.”
  • قطره قطره او منادی کرم  ** کانچ دوزخ سوخت من باز آورم 

  • Hell is like the cold of autumn; Kawthar is like the spring, O rose-garden. 4170
  • هست دوزخ هم‌چو سرمای خزان  ** هست کوثر چون بهار ای گلستان 

  • Hell is like death and the earth of the grave; Kawthar resembles the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
  • هست دوزخ هم‌چو مرگ و خاک گور  ** هست کوثر بر مثال نفخ صور 

  • O ye whose bodies are consumed by Hell, the kindness (of God) is leading you towards Kawthar.
  • ای ز دوزخ سوخته اجسامتان  ** سوی کوثر می‌کشد اکرامتان 

  • Since Thy mercy, O Self-subsistent Living One, said, “I created the creatures that they might profit by Me,”
  • چون خلقت الخلق کی یربح علی  ** لطف تو فرمود ای قیوم حی 

  • (And since Thy saying) “Not that I might profit by them” is (the expression of) Thy munificence, by which all defective things are made whole,
  • لالان اربح علیهم جود تست  ** که شود زو جمله ناقصها درست 

  • Pardon these body-worshipping slaves: pardon from (Thee who art) the ocean of pardon is more worthy. 4175
  • عفو کن زین بندگان تن‌پرست  ** عفو از دریای عفو اولیترست 

  • Creaturely pardon is like a river and like a torrent: (all) the troop (of such pardons) run towards their ocean.
  • عفو خلقان هم‌چو جو و هم‌چو سیل  ** هم بدان دریای خود تازند خیل 

  • Every night from these individual hearts the pardons come to Thee, O King, like pigeons.
  • عفوها هر شب ازین دل‌پاره‌ها  ** چون کبوتر سوی تو آید شها 

  • At the hour of dawn Thou causest them to fly away again, and imprisonest them in these bodies till nightfall.
  • بازشان وقت سحر پران کنی  ** تا به شب محبوس این ابدان کنی 

  • Once more, at eventide, flapping their wings they fly off in passionate longing for that palace and roof.
  • پر زنان بار دگر در وقت شام  ** می‌پرند از عشق آن ایوان و بام 

  • In order that they may snap the thread that unites them with the body, they come before Thee, for by Thee they are endowed with fortune— 4180
  • تا که از تن تار وصلت بسکلند  ** پیش تو آیند کز تو مقبلند 

  • Flapping their wings, secure from falling back headlong, (soaring) in the (spiritual) air and saying, “Verily unto Him we are returning.”
  • پر زنان آمن ز رجع سرنگون  ** در هوا که انا الیه راجعون 

  • From that Bounty comes the call, “Come! After that returning (unto Me) desire and anxiety are no more.
  • بانگ می‌آید تعالوا زان کرم  ** بعد از آن رجعت نماند از حرص و غم 

  • As exiles in the world ye suffered many indignities: ye will have learned to value Me, O nobles.
  • بس غریبیها کشیدیت از جهان  ** قدر من دانسته باشید ای مهان 

  • Hark now, stretch your legs beneath the shade of this tree of Mine in the intoxication of delight,
  • زیر سایه‌ی این درختم مست ناز  ** هین بیندازید پاها را دراز 

  • (Stretch) your legs, (which are) fatigued by (travel on) the Way of Religion, resting for ever on the bosoms and hands of the houris, 4185
  • پایهای پر عنا از راه دین  ** بر کنار و دست حوران خالدین 

  • (While) the houris amorously and fondly say, ‘These Súfís have returned from their travels.
  • حوریان گشته مغمز مهربان  ** کز سفر باز آمدند این صوفیان 

  • The Súfís pure as the light of the sun, who for a long time had fallen into (the world of) earth and filth,
  • صوفیان صافیان چون نور خور  ** مدتی افتاده بر خاک و قذر 

  • Have (now) come back stainless and undefiled, as the sunlight to the lofty orb (of the sun).’”
  • بی‌اثر پاک از قذر باز آمدند  ** هم‌چو نور خور سوی قرص بلند 

  • (Ayáz said), “This company of sinners likewise, O glorious (King)—all their heads have come against a wall.
  • این گروه مجرمان هم ای مجید  ** جمله سرهاشان به دیواری رسید 

  • They have become aware of their fault and sin, although they were defeated by the King's two dice. 4190
  • بر خطا و جرم خود واقف شدند  ** گرچه مات کعبتین شه بدند 

  • Now they turn their faces towards thee, uttering cries of lamentation. O thou whose clemency is making way for sinners,
  • رو به تو کردند اکنون اه‌کنان  ** ای که لطفت مجرمان را ره‌کنان 

  • Speedily grant the defiled ones admission into the Euphrates of (thy) pardon and the fountain (which is) a (cool) washing-place,
  • راه ده آلودگان را العجل  ** در فرات عفو و عین مغتسل 

  • That they may wash themselves clean of that prolonged sin and join in prayer among the ranks of the purified—
  • تا که غسل آرند زان جرم دراز  ** در صف پاکان روند اندر نماز 

  • Among those innumerable ranks plunged in the light of ‘We are they that stand in line.’”
  • اندر آن صفها ز اندازه برون  ** غرقگان نور نحن الصافون 

  • When the discourse reached the description of this (exalted) state, at once the pen broke and the paper tore. 4195
  • چون سخن در وصف این حالت رسید  ** هم قلم بشکست و هم کاغذ درید 

  • Did any saucer measure the sea? Did a lamb ever carry off a lion?
  • بحر را پیمود هیچ اسکره‌ای  ** شیر را برداشت هرگز بره‌ای 

  • If you are veiled, go forth from enveilment, that you may behold the marvellous sovereignty (of God).
  • گر حجابستت برون رو ز احتجاب  ** تا ببینی پادشاهی عجاب 

  • Although the drunken fellows broke Thy cup, (yet) there is an excuse for him that is intoxicated by Thee.
  • گرچه بشکستند حامت قوم مست  ** آنک مست از تو بود عذریش هست 

  • Is not their intoxication with fortune and riches (the result) of Thy wine, O Thou whose actions are sweet?
  • مستی ایشان به اقبال و به مال  ** نه ز باده‌ی تست ای شیرین فعال 

  • O Emperor, they are intoxicated with Thy election (of them): pardon him that is intoxicated with Thee, O Pardoner! 4200
  • ای شهنشه مست تخصیص توند  ** عفو کن از مست خود ای عفومند 

  • The delight of being elected (singled out) by Thee at the moment of Thy addressing them has an effect that is not produced by a hundred jars of wine.
  • لذت تخصیص تو وقت خطاب  ** آن کند که ناید از صد خم شراب 

  • Since Thou hast intoxicated me, do not inflict a penalty: the Law does not see fit to inflict a penalty on the intoxicated.
  • چونک مستم کرده‌ای حدم مزن  ** شرع مستان را نبیند حد زدن 

  • Inflict it (only) at the time when I become sober; for indeed I shall never become sober (again).
  • چون شوم هشیار آنگاهم بزن  ** که نخواهم گشت خود هشیار من