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576-625

  • There can be no self-restraint when thou hast no desire; when there is no adversary, what need for thy strength?
  • صبر نبود چون نباشد میل تو  ** خصم چون نبود چه حاجت حیل تو 

  • Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk; for chastity is in pawn to (depends on the existence of) lust.
  • هین مکن خود را خصی رهبان مشو  ** زانک عفت هست شهوت را گرو 

  • Without (the existence of) sensuality ’tis impossible to forbid sensuality: heroism cannot be displayed against the dead.
  • بی‌هوا نهی از هوا ممکن نبود  ** غازیی بر مردگان نتوان نمود 

  • He (God) hath said ‘Spend’: therefore earn something, since there can be no expenditure without an old (previously acquired) income.
  • انفقوا گفتست پس کسپی بکن  ** زانک نبود خرج بی‌دخل کهن 

  • Although He used (the word) Spend absolutely, (yet) read (it as meaning) ‘Earn, then spend.’ 580
  • گر چه آورد انفقوا را مطلق او  ** تو بخوان که اکسبوا ثم انفقوا 

  • Similarly, since the King (God) has given the command ‘Refrain yourselves,’ there must be some desire from which thou shouldst avert thy face.
  • هم‌چنان چون شاه فرمود اصبروا  ** رغبتی باید کزان تابی تو رو 

  • Hence (the command) ‘Eat ye’ is for the sake of the snare (temptation) of appetite; after that (comes) ‘Do not exceed’: that is temperance.
  • پس کلوا از بهر دام شهوتست  ** بعد از آن لاتسرفوا آن عفتست 

  • When there is no ‘predicate’ (relative quality) in him (any one), the existence of the ‘subject’ (the correlative term) is impossible.
  • چونک محمول به نبود لدیه  ** نیست ممکن بود محمول علیه 

  • When thou hast not the pain of self-restraint, there is no protasis: therefore the apodosis (recompense) does not follow.
  • چونک رنج صبر نبود مر ترا  ** شرط نبود پس فرو ناید جزا 

  • How admirable is that protasis and how joyful is that apodosis (recompense), a recompense that charms the heart and increases the life of the spirit! 585
  • حبذا آن شرط و شادا آن جزا  ** آن جزای دل‌نواز جان‌فزا 

  • Explaining that God (Himself) is the reward bestowed by Him for the (devotional) work of the lover.
  • در بیان آنک ثواب عمل عاشق از حق هم حق است 

  • For (His) lovers He (alone) is (all their) joy and sorrow; He (alone) is their wages and hire for service.
  • عاشقان را شادمانی و غم اوست  ** دست‌مزد و اجرت خدمت هم اوست 

  • If there be any spectacle (object of regard for them) except the Beloved, ’tis not love: ’tis an idle passion.
  • غیر معشوق ار تماشایی بود  ** عشق نبود هرزه سودایی بود 

  • Love is that flame which, when it blazes up, consumes everything else but the Beloved.
  • عشق آن شعله‌ست کو چون بر فروخت  ** هرچه جز معشوق باقی جمله سوخت 

  • He (the lover) drives home the sword of Not in order to kill all other than God: thereupon consider what remains after Not.
  • تیغ لا در قتل غیر حق براند  ** در نگر زان پس که بعد لا چه ماند 

  • There remains except God: all the rest is gone. Hail, O mighty Love, destroyer of polytheism! 590
  • ماند الا الله باقی جمله رفت  ** شاد باش ای عشق شرکت‌سوز زفت 

  • Verily, He is the First and the Last: do not regard polytheism as arising from aught except the eye that sees double.
  • خود همو بود آخرین و اولین  ** شرک جز از دیده‌ی احول مبین 

  • Oh, wonderful! Is there any beauty but from the reflexion of Him? The (human) body hath no movement but from the spirit.
  • ای عجب حسنی بود جز عکس آن  ** نیست تن را جنبشی از غیر جان 

  • The body that hath defect in its spirit will never become sweet, (even) if you smear it with honey.
  • آن تنی را که بود در جان خلل  ** خوش نگردد گر بگیری در عسل 

  • This he knows who one day was (spiritually) alive and received a cup from this Soul of the soul;
  • این کسی داند که روزی زنده بود  ** از کف این جان جان جامی ربود 

  • While to him whose eye has not beheld those (beauteous) cheeks this smoky heat is (appears to be) the spirit. 595
  • وانک چشم او ندیدست آن رخان  ** پیش او جانست این تف دخان 

  • Inasmuch as he never saw ‘Umar (ibn) ‘Abdu ’l-‘Azíz, to him even Hajjáj seems just.
  • چون ندید او عمر عبدالعزیز  ** پیش او عادل بود حجاج نیز 

  • Inasmuch as he never saw the firmness (unshakable strength) of the dragon of Moses, he fancies (there is) life in the magic cords.
  • چون ندید او مار موسی را ثبات  ** در حبال سحر پندارد حیات 

  • The bird that has never drunk the limpid water keeps its wings and feathers in the briny water.
  • مرغ کو ناخورده است آب زلال  ** اندر آب شور دارد پر و بال 

  • No opposite can be known except through its opposite: (only) when he (any one) suffers blows will he know (the value of) kindness.
  • جز به ضد ضد را همی نتوان شناخت  ** چون ببیند زخم بشناسد نواخت 

  • Consequently the present life has come in front (first), in order that you may appreciate the realm of Alast. 600
  • لاجرم دنیا مقدم آمدست  ** تا بدانی قدر اقلیم الست 

  • When you are delivered from this place and go to that place, you will give thanks (to God) in the sugar-shop of everlastingness.
  • چون ازینجا وا رهی آنجا روی  ** در شکرخانه‌ی ابد شاکر شوی 

  • You will say, ‘There (in the world below) I was sifting dust, I was fleeing from this pure world.
  • گویی آنجا خاک را می‌بیختم  ** زین جهان پاک می‌بگریختم 

  • Alas, would that I had died ere now, so that my (time of) being tormented in the mud might have been less!’
  • ای دریغا پیش ازین بودیم اجل  ** تا عذابم کم بدی اندر وجل 

  • Commentary on the saying of the Prophet, on whom be peace, “None ever died without wishing, if he was a righteous man, that he had died before he (actually) died, in order that he might sooner attain unto felicity; and if he was a wicked man, in order that his wickedness might be less.”
  • در تفسیر قول رسول علیه‌السلام ما مات من مات الا و تمنی ان یموت قبل ما مات ان کان برا لیکون الی وصول البر اعجل و ان کان فاجرا لیقل فجوره 

  • Hence the wise Prophet has said that no one who dies and dismounts from (the steed of) the body
  • زین بفرمودست آن آگه رسول  ** که هر آنک مرد و کرد از تن نزول 

  • Feels grief on account of departure and death, but (only) grieves because of having failed (in good works) and missed his opportunities. 605
  • نبود او را حسرت نقلان و موت  ** لیک باشد حسرت تقصیر و فوت 

  • In sooth every one that dies wishes that the departure to his destination had been earlier:
  • هر که میرد خود تمنی باشدش  ** که بدی زین پیش نقل مقصدش 

  • If he be wicked, in order that his wickedness might have been less; and if devout, in order that he might have come home sooner.
  • گر بود بد تا بدی کمتر بدی  ** ور تقی تا خانه زوتر آمدی 

  • The wicked man says, ‘I have been heedless, moment by moment I have been adding to the veil (of sin).
  • گوید آن بد بی‌خبر می‌بوده‌ام  ** دم به دم من پرده می‌افزوده‌ام 

  • If my passing (from the world) had taken place sooner, this screen and veil of mine would have been less.’
  • گر ازین زودتر مرا معبر بدی  ** این حجاب و پرده‌ام کمتر بدی 

  • Do not in covetousness rend the face of contentment, and do not in pride rend the visage of humility. 610
  • از حریصی کم دران روی قنوع  ** وز تکبر کم دران چهره‌ی خشوع 

  • Likewise do not in avarice rend the face of munificence, and in devilishness the beauteous countenance of worship.
  • هم‌چنین از بخل کم در روی جود  ** وز بلیسی چهره‌ی خوب سجود 

  • Do not tear out those feathers which are an ornament to Paradise: do not tear out those feathers which (enable thee to) traverse the Way.”
  • بر مکن آن پر خلد آرای را  ** بر مکن آن پر ره‌پیمای را 

  • When he (the peacock) heard this counsel, he looked at him (the Sage) and, after that, began to lament and weep.
  • چون شنید این پند در وی بنگریست  ** بعد از آن در نوحه آمد می‌گریست 

  • The long lamentation and weeping of the sorrowful (peacock) caused every one who was there to fall a-weeping;
  • نوحه و گریه‌ی دراز دردمند  ** هر که آنجا بود بر گریه‌ش فکند 

  • And he who was asking the reason of (the peacock's) tearing out his feathers, (he too being left) without an answer repented (of having asked) and wept, 615
  • وآنک می‌پرسید پر کندن ز چیست  ** بی‌جوابی شد پشیمان می‌گریست 

  • Saying, “Why did I impertinently ask him (that question)? He was full of grief: I made him distraught.”
  • کز فضولی من چرا پرسیدمش  ** او ز غم پر بود شورانیدمش 

  • From his (the peacock's) moist eyes the water (of tears) was trickling to the earth: in every drop were contained a hundred answers.
  • می‌چکید از چشم تر بر خاک آب  ** اندر آن هر قطره مدرج صد جواب 

  • Sincere weeping touches the souls (of all), so that it makes (even) the sky and heaven to weep.
  • گریه‌ی با صدق بر جانها زند  ** تا که چرخ و عرش را گریان کند 

  • Without any doubt, intellects and hearts (spirits) are celestial, (though) they live debarred from the celestial light.
  • عقل و دلها بی‌گمان عرشی‌اند  ** در حجاب از نور عرشی می‌زیند 

  • Explaining that the intellect and spirit are imprisoned in clay, like Hárút and Márút in the pit of Babylon.
  • در بیان آنک عقل و روح در آب و گل محبوس‌اند هم‌چون هاروت و ماروت در چاه بابل 

  • Like Hárút and Márút, those two pure ones (the intellect and spirit) have been confined here (in this world) in a horrible pit. 620
  • هم‌چو هاروت و چو ماروت آن دو پاک  ** بسته‌اند اینجا به چاه سهمناک 

  • They are in the low and sensual world: they have been confined in this pit on account of sin.
  • عالم سفلی و شهوانی درند  ** اندرین چه گشته‌اند از جرم‌بند 

  • The good and the evil (alike) learn magic and the opposite of magic from these twain involuntarily;
  • سحر و ضد سحر را بی‌اختیار  ** زین دو آموزند نیکان و شرار 

  • But first they admonish him, saying, “Beware, do not learn and pick up magic from us:
  • لیک اول پند بدهندش که هین  ** سحر را از ما میاموز و مچین 

  • We teach this magic, O such and such, for the purpose of trial and probation;
  • ما بیاموزیم این سحر ای فلان  ** از برای ابتلا و امتحان 

  • (But thou art free to choose), for probation necessarily involves free-will, and thou canst not have any (effective) free-will without the power (of action).” 625
  • که امتحان را شرط باشد اختیار  ** اختیاری نبودت بی‌اقتدار