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1146-1170

  • عقل بفروش و هنر حیرت بخر ** رو به خواری نه بخارا ای پسر
  • Sell intellect and talent and buy bewilderment (in God): betake thyself to lowliness, O son, not to Bukhárá!
  • ما چه خود را در سخن آغشته‌ایم ** کز حکایت ما حکایت گشته‌ایم
  • Why have I steeped myself in the discourse, so that from story-telling I have become a story?
  • من عدم و افسانه گردم در حنین ** تا تقلب یابم اندر ساجدین
  • I become naught and (unsubstantial as) a fable in making moan (to God), in order that I may gain influence over (the hearts of) them that prostrate themselves in prayer.
  • این حکایت نیست پیش مرد کار ** وصف حالست و حضور یار غار
  • This (story of Moses and Pharaoh) is not a story in the eyes of the man of experience: it is a description of an actual (spiritual) state, and it is (equivalent to) the presence of the Friend of the Cave.
  • آن اساطیر اولین که گفت عاق ** حرف قرآن را بد آثار نفاق 1150
  • That (phrase) “stories of the ancients,” which the disobedient (infidels) applied to the words of the Qur’án, was a mark of (their) hypocrisy.
  • لامکانی که درو نور خداست ** ماضی و مستقبل و حال از کجاست
  • The man transcending space, in whom is the Light of God— whence (what concern of his) is the past, the future, or the present?
  • ماضی و مستقبلش نسبت به تست ** هر دو یک چیزند پنداری که دوست
  • His being past or future is (only) in relation to thee: both are one thing, and thou thinkest they are two.
  • یک تنی او را پدر ما را پسر ** بام زیر زید و بر عمرو آن زبر
  • One individual is to him father and to us son: the roof is below Zayd and above ‘Amr.
  • نسبت زیر و زبر شد زان دو کس ** سقف سوی خویش یک چیزست بس
  • The relation of “below” and “above” arises from those two persons: as regards itself, the roof is one thing only.
  • نیست مثل آن مثالست این سخن ** قاصر از معنی نو حرف کهن 1155
  • These expressions are not (exactly) similar to that (doctrine of spiritual timelessness): they are a comparison: the old words fall short of the new meaning.
  • چون لب جو نیست مشکا لب ببند ** بی لب و ساحل بدست این بحر قند
  • Since there is no river-marge, close thy lips, O waterskin: this Sea of candy hath (ever) been without marge or shore.
  • فرستادن فرعون به مداین در طلب ساحران
  • How Pharaoh sent (messengers) to the cities in search of the magicians.
  • چونک موسی بازگشت و او بماند ** اهل رای و مشورت را پیش خواند
  • When Moses had returned (home) and he (Pharaoh) remained (with his own people), he called his advisers and counsellors to his presence.
  • آنچنان دیدند کز اطراف مصر ** جمع آردشان شه و صراف مصر
  • They deemed it right that the King and Ruler of Egypt should assemble them (the magicians) from all parts of Egypt.
  • او بسی مردم فرستاد آن زمان ** هر نواحی بهر جمع جادوان
  • Thereupon he sent many men in every direction to collect the sorcerers.
  • هر طرف که ساحری بد نامدار ** کرد پران سوی او ده پیک کار 1160
  • In whatsoever region there was a renowned magician, he set flying towards him ten active couriers.
  • دو جوان بودند ساحر مشتهر ** سحر ایشان در دل مه مستمر
  • There were two youths, famous magicians: their magic penetrated into the heart of the moon.
  • شیر دوشیده ز مه فاش آشکار ** در سفرها رفته بر خمی سوار
  • They milked the moon publicly and openly; in their journeys they went mounted on a wine-jar.
  • شکل کرباسی نموده ماهتاب ** آن بپیموده فروشیده شتاب
  • They caused the moonshine to appear like a piece of linen: they measured and sold it speedily,
  • سیم برده مشتری آگه شده ** دست از حسرت به رخها بر زده
  • And took the silver away: the purchaser, on becoming aware (of the fraud), would smite his hand upon his cheeks in grief.
  • صد هزاران همچنین در جادوی ** بوده منشی و نبوده چون روی 1165
  • They were the inventors of a hundred thousand such (tricks) in sorcery, and were not (following others) like the rhyme-letter.
  • چون بدیشان آمد آن پیغام شاه ** کز شما شاهست اکنون چاره‌خواه
  • When the King's message reached them, (to this effect): “The king is now desiring help from you,
  • از پی آنک دو درویش آمدند ** بر شه و بر قصر او موکب زدند
  • Because two dervishes have come and marched in force against the King and his palace.
  • نیست با ایشان بغیر یک عصا ** که همی‌گردد به امرش اژدها
  • They have naught with them except one rod, which becomes a dragon at his (Moses') command.
  • شاه و لشکر جمله بیچاره شدند ** زین دو کس جمله به افغان آمدند
  • The King and the whole army are helpless: all have been brought to lamentation by these two persons.
  • چاره‌ای می‌باید اندر ساحری ** تا بود که زین دو ساحر جان بری 1170
  • A remedy must be sought in magic, that maybe thou wilt save (their) lives from these two enchanters—”