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  • آن یکی گفتش که از بد گوهری ** یاد ناوردی تو حق مادری‏
  • Some one said to him, “From evil nature you have not borne in mind what is due to motherhood.
  • هی تو مادر را چرا کشتی بگو ** او چه کرد آخر بگو ای زشت خو
  • Hey, tell (me) why you killed your mother. What did she do? Pray, tell (me), O foul villain!”
  • گفت کاری کرد کان عار وی است ** کشتمش کان خاک ستار وی است‏
  • He said, “She did a deed that is a disgrace to her; I killed her because that earth (her grave) is her coverer (hides her shame).”
  • گفت آن کس را بکش ای محتشم ** گفت پس هر روز مردی را کشم‏ 780
  • The other said, “O honoured sir, kill that one (who was her partner in guilt).” “Then,” he replied, “I should kill a man every day.
  • کشتم او را رستم از خونهای خلق ** نای او برم به است از نای خلق‏
  • I killed her, I was saved from shedding the blood of a multitude: ’tis better that I cut her throat than the throats of (so many) people.”
  • نفس تست آن مادر بد خاصیت ** که فساد اوست در هر ناحیت‏
  • That mother of bad character, whose wickedness is in every quarter, is your fleshly soul.
  • هین بکش او را که بهر آن دنی ** هر دمی قصد عزیزی می‏کنی‏
  • Come, kill it, for on account of that vile (creature) you are every moment assailing one who is venerable.
  • از وی این دنیای خوش بر تست تنگ ** از پی او با حق و با خلق جنگ‏
  • Through it this fair world is narrow (distressful) to you, for its sake (you are at) war with God and man.
  • نفس کشتی باز رستی ز اعتذار ** کس ترا دشمن نماند در دیار 785
  • (If) you have killed the fleshly soul, you are delivered from (the necessity of) excusing yourself: nobody in the world remains your enemy.
  • گر شکال آرد کسی بر گفت ما ** از برای انبیا و اولیا
  • If any one should raise a difficulty about my words in regard to the prophets and saints,
  • کانبیا را نه که نفس کشته بود ** پس چراشان دشمنان بود و حسود
  • (And should say), “Had not the prophets a killed (mortified) fleshly soul? Why, then, had they enemies and enviers?”—
  • گوش کن تو ای طلب‏کار صواب ** بشنو این اشکال و شبهت را جواب‏
  • Give ear, O seeker of truth, and hear the answer to this difficulty and doubt.
  • دشمن خود بوده‏اند آن منکران ** زخم بر خود می‏زدند ایشان چنان‏
  • Those unbelievers were (really) enemies to themselves: they were striking at themselves such blows (as they struck).
  • دشمن آن باشد که قصد جان کند ** دشمن آن نبود که خود جان می‏کند 790
  • An enemy is one who attempts (another's) life; he that is himself destroying his own life is not an enemy (to others).
  • نیست خفاشک عدوی آفتاب ** او عدوی خویش آمد در حجاب‏
  • The little bat is not an enemy to the sun: it is an enemy to itself in the veil (of its own blindness).
  • تابش خورشید او را می‏کشد ** رنج او خورشید هرگز کی کشد
  • The glow of the sun kills it; how should the sun ever suffer annoyance from it?
  • دشمن آن باشد کز او آید عذاب ** مانع آید لعل را از آفتاب‏
  • An enemy is one from whom torment proceeds, (one who) hinders the ruby from (receiving the rays of) the sun.
  • مانع خویشند جمله‏ی کافران ** از شعاع جوهر پیغمبران‏
  • All the infidels hinder themselves from (receiving) the rays of the prophets' (spiritual) jewel.
  • کی حجاب چشم آن فردند خلق ** چشم خود را کور و کژ کردند خلق‏ 795
  • How should (unbelieving) people veil the eyes of that peerless one (the prophet or saint)? The people have (only) blinded and distorted their own eyes.
  • چون غلام هندویی کاو کین کشد ** از ستیزه‏ی خواجه خود را می‏کشد
  • (They are) like the Indian slave who bears a grudge and kills himself to spite his master:
  • سر نگون می‏افتد از بام سرا ** تا زیانی کرده باشد خواجه را
  • He falls headlong from the roof of the house (in the hope) that he may have done some harm to his master.
  • گر شود بیمار دشمن با طبیب ** ور کند کودک عداوت با ادیب‏
  • If the sick man become an enemy to the physician, or if the boy show hostility to the teacher,
  • در حقیقت ره زن جان خودند ** راه عقل و جان خود را خود زدند
  • In truth they act as brigands against themselves: they themselves waylay their own mind and spirit.
  • گازری گر خشم گیرد ز آفتاب ** ماهیی گر خشم می‏گیرد ز آب‏ 800
  • If a fuller take offence at the sun, if a fish is taking offence at the water,
  • تو یکی بنگر که را دارد زیان ** عاقبت که بود سیاه اختر از آن‏
  • Just once consider whom that (anger) injures, and whose star is eclipsed by it in the end.