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  • His troops reduced them (the inhabitants) to straits; his army fell to killing the foe.
  • تنگشان آورد لشکرهای او  ** اسپهش افتاد در قتل عدو 

  • They prostrated themselves before him, crying, “Mercy! Make us thy thralls, (but) spare our lives!
  • سجده آوردند پیشش کالامان  ** حلقه‌مان در گوش کن وا بخش جان 

  • Whatever thou requirest (in the way of) tribute or presents will come to thee from us with increase (abundantly) at every fixed time (of payment).
  • هر خراج و صلتی که بایدت  ** آن ز ما هر موسمی افزایدت 

  • Our lives are thine, O lion-natured (prince): let them be on deposit with us for a (little) while.”
  • جان ما آن توست ای شیرخو  ** پیش ما چندی امانت باش گو 

  • He replied, “Ye will not save your lives from me unless ye bring an Abú Bakr into my presence. 850
  • گفت نرهانید از من جان خویش  ** تا نیاریدم ابوبکری به پیش 

  • Unless ye bring to me as a gift from your city one whose name is Abú Bakr, O people who have fled (from righteousness),
  • تا مرا بوبکر نام از شهرتان  ** هدیه نارید ای رمیده امتان 

  • I will mow you down like corn, O vile folk: I will accept neither tribute nor blandishments.”
  • بدرومتان هم‌چو کشت ای قوم دون  ** نه خراج استانم و نه هم فسون 

  • They offered him many sacks of gold, saying, “Do not demand an Abú Bakr from a city like this.
  • بس جوال زر کشیدندش به راه  ** کز چنین شهری ابوبکری مخواه 

  • How should there be an Abú Bakr in Sabzawár, or a dry sod in the river?”
  • کی بود بوبکر اندر سبزوار  ** یا کلوخ خشک اندر جویبار 

  • He averted his face from the gold and said, “O Magians (infidels), unless ye bring me an Abú Bakr as an offering, 855
  • رو بتابید از زر و گفت ای مغان  ** تا نیاریدم ابوبکر ارمغان 

  • ’Tis of no avail. I am not a child that I should stand dumbfounded (fascinated) by gold and silver.”
  • هیچ سودی نیست کودک نیستم  ** تا به زر و سیم حیران بیستم 

  • Unless thou prostrate thyself (in humble submission to God), thou wilt not escape (from punishment), O wretch, (even) if thou traverse the (whole) mosque on thy séant.
  • تا نیاری سجده نرهی ای زبون  ** گر بپیمایی تو مسجد را به کون 

  • They (the inhabitants of Sabzawár) despatched emissaries, (to inquire) where in this desolate (corrupt) place an Abú Bakr was (to be found).
  • منهیان انگیختند از چپ و راست  ** که اندرین ویرانه بوبکری کجاست 

  • After three days and three nights, during which they made haste (in searching), they found an emaciated Abú Bakr.
  • بعد سه روز و سه شب که اشتافتند  ** یک ابوبکری نزاری یافتند 

  • He was a wayfarer and, on account of sickness, had remained in the corner of a ruin, in utter exhaustion. 860
  • ره گذر بود و بمانده از مرض  ** در یکی گوشه‌ی خرابه پر حرض 

  • He was lying in a ruined nook. When they espied him, they said to him hurriedly,
  • خفته بود او در یکی کنجی خراب  ** چون بدیدندش بگفتندش شتاب 

  • “Arise! The Sultan has demanded thee: by thee our city will be saved from slaughter.”
  • خیز که سلطان ترا طالب شدست  ** کز تو خواهد شهر ما از قتل رست 

  • He replied, “If I had the foot (power to walk) or any (means of) arrival, I myself would have gone by my own road to my destination.
  • گفت اگر پایم بدی یا مقدمی  ** خود به راه خود به مقصد رفتمی 

  • How should I have remained in this abode of my enemies? I would have pushed on towards the city of my friends.”
  • اندرین دشمن‌کده کی ماندمی  ** سوی شهر دوستان می‌راندمی 

  • They raised the corpse-bearers' board and lifted our Abú Bakr (upon it). 865
  • تخته‌ی مرده‌کشان بفراشتند  ** وان ابوبکر مرا برداشتند 

  • The carriers were taking him along to Khwárizmsháh, that he (the Sultan) might behold the token (which he desired).
  • سوی خوارمشاه حمالان کشان  ** می‌کشیدندش که تا بیند نشان 

  • Sabzawár is this world, and in this place the man of God is wasted and goodfor- naught.
  • سبزوارست این جهان و مرد حق  ** اندرین جا ضایعست و ممتحق 

  • Khwárizmsháh is God Almighty: He demands from this wicked folk the (pure) heart.
  • هست خوارمشاه یزدان جلیل  ** دل همی خواهد ازین قوم رذیل 

  • He (the Prophet) said, “He (God) doth not regard your (outward) form: therefore in your devising seek ye the owner of the Heart.”
  • گفت لا ینظر الی تصویرکم  ** فابتغوا ذا القلب فی‌تدبیر کم 

  • (God says), “I regard thee through the owner of the Heart, not because of the (external) marks of prostration (in prayer) and the giving away of gold (in charities).” 870
  • من ز صاحب‌دل کنم در تو نظر  ** نه به نقش سجده و ایثار زر 

  • Since thou hast deemed thy heart to be the Heart, thou hast abandoned the search after those who possess the Heart—
  • تو دل خود را چو دل پنداشتی  ** جست و جوی اهل دل بگذاشتی 

  • The Heart into which if seven hundred (heavens) like these Seven Heavens should enter, they would be lost and hidden (from view).
  • دل که گر هفصد چو این هفت آسمان  ** اندرو آید شود یاوه و نهان 

  • Do not call such fragments of heart as these “the Heart”: do not seek an Abú Bakr in Sabzawár!
  • این چنین دل ریزه‌ها را دل مگو  ** سبزوار اندر ابوبکری بجو 

  • The owner of the Heart becomes a six-faced mirror: through him God looks upon (all) the six directions.
  • صاحب دل آینه‌ی شش‌رو شود  ** حق ازو در شش جهت ناظر بود 

  • Whosoever hath his dwelling-place in (the world of) six directions God doth not look upon him except through the mediation of him (the owner of the Heart). 875
  • هر که اندر شش جهت دارد مقر  ** نکندش بی‌واسطه‌ی او حق نظر 

  • If He (God) reject (any one), He does it for his sake; and if He accept (any one), he likewise is the authority.
  • گر کند رد از برای او کند  ** ور قبول آرد همو باشد سند 

  • Without him God does not bestow bounty on any one. I have told (only) one sample of (the sublimity of) the possessor of union (with God).
  • بی‌ازو ندهد کسی را حق نوال  ** شمه‌ای گفتم من از صاحب‌وصال 

  • He (God) lays His gift on the palm of his hand, and from his palm dispenses it to those who are the objects of His mercy.
  • موهبت را بر کف دستش نهد  ** وز کفش آن را به مرحومان دهد 

  • The unitedness of the Universal Sea (of Bounty) with his palm is unqualified and unconditional and perfect.
  • با کفش دریای کل را اتصال  ** هست بی‌چون و چگونه و بر کمال 

  • A unitedness that is not containable in words—to speak of it were a vain task, so farewell. 880
  • اتصالی که نگنجد در کلام  ** گفتنش تکلیف باشد والسلام 

  • O rich man, (if) thou bring a hundred sacks of gold, God will say, “Bring the Heart, O thou that art bent (in devotion).
  • صد جوال زر بیاری ای غنی  ** حق بگوید دل بیار ای منحنی 

  • If the Heart be pleased with thee, I am pleased; and if it be averse to thee, I am averse.
  • گر ز تو راضیست دل من راضیم  ** ور ز تو معرض بود اعراضیم 

  • I do not regard thee, I regard that Heart: bring it, O soul, as a gift to My door!
  • ننگرم در تو در آن دل بنگرم  ** تحفه او را آر ای جان بر درم 

  • According as it is in relation to thee, so am I: Paradise is under the feet of mothers.”
  • با تو او چونست هستم من چنان  ** زیر پای مادران باشد جنان 

  • It (the Heart) is the mother and father and origin of (all) the creatures: oh, blest is that one who knows the Heart from the skin. 885
  • مادر و بابا و اصل خلق اوست  ** ای خنک آنکس که داند دل ز پوست 

  • Thou wilt say, “Lo, I have brought unto Thee a heart”: He (God) will say to thee, “Qutú is full of these hearts.
  • تو بگویی نک دل آوردم به تو  ** گویدت پرست ازین دلها قتو 

  • Bring the Heart that is the Qutb (Pole) of the world and the soul of the soul of the soul of the soul of Adam.”
  • آن دلی آور که قطب عالم اوست  ** جان جان جان جان آدم اوست 

  • The Sultan of (all) hearts is waiting expectantly for that Heart full of light and goodness.
  • از برای آن دل پر نور و بر  ** هست آن سلطان دلها منتظر 

  • Thou mayst wander (many) days in Sabzawár, (but) thou wilt not find (there) a Heart like that by (the most) careful observation.
  • تو بگردی روزها در سبزوار  ** آنچنان دل را نیابی ز اعتبار 

  • Then thou wilt lay upon a bier the corrupt heart, whose soul is rotten, to carry (it) Yonder, 890
  • پس دل پژمرده‌ی پوسیده‌جان  ** بر سر تخته نهی آن سو کشان 

  • And say, “I bring Thee a heart, O King: there is no better heart than this in Sabzawár.”
  • که دل آوردم ترا ای شهریار  ** به ازین دل نبود اندر سبزوار 

  • He (God) will answer thee, saying, “O audacious man, is this a graveyard that thou shouldst bring a dead heart hither?
  • گویدت این گورخانه‌ست ای جری  ** که دل مرده بدینجا آوری 

  • Go, bring the Heart that is kingly, from which is (derived) the security of the Sabzawár of (mundane) existence.”
  • رو بیاور آن دلی کو شاه‌خوست  ** که امان سبزوار کون ازوست 

  • You may say that that Heart is hidden from this world, because darkness and light are opposites.
  • گویی آن دل زین جهان پنهان بود  ** زانک ظلمت با ضیا ضدان بود 

  • From the Day of Alast there is an hereditary enmity of that Heart to the Sabzawár of the carnal nature; 895
  • دشمنی آن دل از روز الست  ** سبزوار طبع را میراثی است