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  • بر زن و بر فعل زن دل می‏نهید ** عقل ناقص و آن گهانی اعتماد
  • Will ye set your hearts (rely) on woman and the deeds of woman? (Will ye acknowledge her to be of) weak mind, and then (put) trust (in her)?
  • خویشتن را بر علی و بر نبی ** بسته است اندر زمانه بس غبی‏ 2195
  • Many a fool in the world has tacked himself on to ‘Alí and the Prophet—and there is many a fool in the world (who will believe him).”
  • هر که باشد از زنا و زانیان ** این برد ظن در حق ربانیان‏
  • Whoever is (born) of adultery and (is one) of the adulterous will think this concerning the men of God.
  • هر که بر گردد سرش از چرخها ** همچو خود گردنده بیند خانه را
  • Any one whose head is made giddy by (his own) gyrations sees the house turning round like himself.
  • آن چه گفت آن باغبان بو الفضول ** حال او بد، دور از اولاد رسول‏
  • What that vain talker, the gardener, said was (indicative of) his (own) condition; (it was) far from (being applicable to) the descendants of the Prophet.
  • گر نبودی او نتیجه مرتدان ** کی چنین گفتی برای خاندان‏
  • If he had not been the issue of apostates, how should he have spoken thus as regards (the Prophet's) House?
  • خواند افسونها شنید آن را فقیه ** در پیش رفت آن ستمکار سفیه‏ 2200
  • He used spells (guileful words), and the jurist hearkened to them. (Then) that insolent bully went after him (the Sharíf).
  • گفت ای خر اندر این باغت که خواند ** دزدی از پیغمبرت میراث ماند
  • He said, “O ass, who invited you into this orchard? Has robbery been left to you as an inheritance by the Prophet?
  • شیر را بچه همی‏ماند بدو ** تو به پیغمبر به چه مانی بگو
  • The lion's cub resembles him (the lion): in what do you resemble the Prophet? Tell (me that)!”
  • با شریف آن کرد مرد ملتجی ** که کند با آل یاسین خارجی‏
  • The man (the gardener) who had sought refuge (in craft) did to the Sharíf that which a Khárijite would do to the Family of Yá-sín (Mohammed).
  • تا چه کین دارند دایم دیو و غول ** چون یزید و شمر با آل رسول‏
  • (I marvel) what hatred devils and ghouls like Yazíd and Shimr always have towards the Prophet's Family.
  • شد شریف از زخم آن ظالم خراب ** با فقیه او گفت ما جستیم از آب‏ 2205
  • The Sharíf was devastated by the blows of that ruffian. He said to the jurist, “W have jumped out of the water.
  • پای دار اکنون که ماندی فرد و کم ** چون دهل شو زخم می‏خور بر شکم‏
  • Do thou stand fast, now that thou art left alone and deprived (of our support). Be as a drum, suffer blows on the belly!
  • گر شریف و لایق و هم دم نی‏ام ** از چنین ظالم تو را من کم نی‏ام‏
  • If I am not a Sharíf and worthy (of thee) and a (true) bosom-friend, (at any rate) I am no worse for thee than such a ruffian as this.”
  • شد از او فارغ بیامد کای فقیه ** چه فقیهی ای تو ننگ هر سفیه‏
  • He (the gardener) finished with him (the Sharíf), and came up, saying, “O jurist, what (sort of) jurist are you, O you disgrace to every fool?
  • فتوی‏ات این است ای ببریده دست ** کاندر آیی و نگویی امر هست‏
  • Is it your legal opinion, O convicted thief, that you may come (into my orchard) without asking leave?
  • این چنین رخصت بخواندی در وسیط ** یا بدست این مسئله اندر محیط 2210
  • Have you read such a license in the Wasít, or has this question been (so decided) in the Muhít?”
  • گفت حق استت بزن دستت رسید ** این سزای آن که از یاران برید
  • “You are right,” he replied; “beat (me): you have got the upper hand. This is the fit penalty for him that parts from friends.”
  • رجعت به قصه مریض و عیادت پیغامبر علیه السلام‏
  • Returning to the story of the sick man and the visit paid (to him) by the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace!
  • این عیادت از برای این صله است ** وین صله از صد محبت حامله است‏
  • This visiting of the sick is for the sake of this (spiritual) attachments, and this attachment is pregnant with a hundred lovingkindnesses.
  • در عیادت شد رسول بی‏ندید ** آن صحابی را به حال نزع دید
  • The peerless Prophet went to visit the sick man; he found that Companion at the last gasp.
  • چون شوی دور از حضور اولیا ** در حقیقت گشته‏ای دور از خدا
  • When you become far from the presence of the saints, you have in reality become far from God.
  • چون نتیجه هجر همراهان غم است ** کی فراق روی شاهان ز آن کم است‏ 2215
  • Inasmuch as the result of parting from fellow-travellers is sorrow, how is separation from the countenance of the kings (saints) less (grievous) than that?
  • سایه شاهان طلب هر دم شتاب ** تا شوی ز آن سایه بهتر ز آفتاب‏
  • Hasten every moment to seek the shadow (protection) of (those) kings, that by means of that shadow you may become superior to the sun.
  • گر سفر داری بدین نیت برو ** ور حضر باشد از این غافل مشو
  • If you have a journey (to make), go with this intention; and if it be (that you stay) at home, neglect not this.
  • گفتن شیخی بایزید را که کعبه منم گرد من طوافی می‏کن‏
  • How a certain Shaykh said to Báyazíd, “I am the Ka‘ba: perform a circumambulation round me.”
  • سوی مکه شیخ امت بایزید ** از برای حج و عمره می‏دوید
  • Báyazíd, the Shaykh of the community, was hurrying to Mecca for the greater pilgrimage (hajj) and the lesser (‘umra).