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435-444

  • ما چو کران ناشنیده یک خطاب ** هرزه گویان از قیاس خود جواب‏ 435
  • We, like deaf men, without having heard a single thing spoken (to us), are answering idly from our own surmise.
  • ما ز موسی پند نگرفتیم کاو ** گشت از انکار خضری زرد رو
  • We have not taken warning from Moses, who was made shamefaced by disbelief in a Khizr,
  • با چنان چشمی که بالا می‏شتافت ** نور چشمش آسمان را می‏شکافت‏
  • Notwithstanding (that he had) an eye that sped aloft, and the light of his eye was piercing heaven.
  • کرده با چشمت تعصب موسیا ** از حماقت چشم موش آسیا
  • O Moses (of this age), through foolishness the eye of a mill-mouse has fanatically set itself against thine eye.”
  • شیخ فرمود آن همه گفتار و قال ** من بحل کردم شما را آن حلال‏
  • The Shaykh said, “I forgive all that talk and palaver: it is lawful to you.
  • سر این آن بود کز حق خواستم ** لاجرم بنمود راه راستم‏ 440
  • The secret of this (matter) was that I besought God: consequently He showed me the right way,
  • گفت آن دینار اگر چه اندک است ** لیک موقوف غریو کودک است‏
  • And said, ‘Though that dinar is little, yet (the payment of) it is dependent on the boy's outcry.
  • تا نگرید کودک حلوا فروش ** بحر رحمت در نمی‏آید به جوش‏
  • Until the halwá-selling boy weeps, the sea of (My) mercy is not aroused’.”
  • ای برادر طفل طفل چشم تست ** کام خود موقوف زاری دان درست‏
  • O brother, the child (boy) is the child (pupil) of your eye: know surely that (the gaining of) your desire is dependent on (tears of) distress.
  • گر همی‏خواهی که آن خلعت رسد ** پس بگریان طفل دیده بر جسد
  • If you wish that that robe of honour (which you desire) should come (to you), then make the child (pupil) of your eye weep over your body.
  • ترسانیدن شخصی زاهد را که کم گری تا کور نشوی
  • How a certain person frightened an ascetic, saying, “Weep little, lest thou become blind.”