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3030-3054

  • آنچ یعقوب از رخ یوسف بدید ** خاص او بد آن به اخوان کی رسید 3030
  • That which Jacob experienced from (beholding) the face of Joseph was peculiar to him: when did that (delight) come to his (Joseph's) brethren?
  • این ز عشقش خویش در چه می‌کند ** و آن بکین از بهر او چه می‌کند
  • This one (Jacob), from love of him (Joseph), puts himself in the pit, while that one (Joseph's brother) digs a pit for him (Joseph) in hatred.
  • سفره‌ی او پیش این از نان تهیست ** پیش یعقوبست پر کو مشتهیست
  • In the sight of this one (Joseph's brother) his (Joseph's) food-wallet is empty of bread; in the sight of Jacob it is full, for he is desiring eagerly.
  • روی ناشسته نبیند روی حور ** لا صلوة گفت الا بالطهور
  • None with face unwashed beholds the faces of the houris: he (the Prophet) said, “There is no ritual prayer without the ablution.”
  • عشق باشد لوت و پوت جانها ** جوع ازین رویست قوت جانها
  • Love is the meat and drink of souls; hunger, from this point of view, is the food of souls.
  • جوع یوسف بود آن یعقوب را ** بوی نانش می‌رسید از دور جا 3035
  • Jacob had hunger for Joseph; (hence) the smell of the bread was reaching him from afar.
  • آنک بستد پیرهن را می‌شتافت ** بوی پیراهان یوسف می‌نیافت
  • He that took the shirt (of Joseph) was hastening (on his way) and was not perceiving the scent of Joseph's shirt,
  • و آنک صد فرسنگ زان سو بود او ** چونک بد یعقوب می‌بویید بو
  • While he that was a hundred leagues (distant) from that quarter was smelling the perfume, since he was Jacob.
  • ای بسا عالم ز دانش بی‌نصیب ** حافظ علمست آنکس نه حبیب
  • Oh, there is many a learned man that hath no profit of (his) knowledge: that person is one who commits knowledge to memory, not one who loves (it).
  • مستمع از وی همی‌یابد مشام ** گرچه باشد مستمع از جنس عام
  • From him the hearer (but not the learned man himself) perceives the scent (of knowledge), though the hearer be of the common sort,
  • زانک پیراهان بدستش عاریه‌ست ** چون بدست آن نخاسی جاریه‌ست 3040
  • Because the shirt in his (the learned man's) hand is a borrowed thing, like a slave-girl in the hands of a slave-dealer.
  • جاریه پیش نخاسی سرسریست ** در کف او از برای مشتریست
  • The slave-girl is useless to the slave-dealer: she is in his hands (only) for the sake of the purchaser.
  • قسمت حقست روزی دادنی ** هر یکی را سوی دیگر راه نی
  • The dispensation of God is a bestowal of the allotted portion: no one's (portion) has access (can find its way) to another.
  • یک خیال نیک باغ آن شده ** یک خیال زشت راه این زده
  • A good fancy becomes that (blessed) man's garden (of Paradise); an ugly fancy waylays this (unblest) man (and brings him to perdition).
  • آن خدایی کز خیالی باغ ساخت ** وز خیالی دوزخ و جای گداخت
  • That Lord who hath made from one fancy the garden (of Paradise), and from one fancy Hell and the place of melting (torment)—
  • پس کی داند راه گلشنهای او ** پس کی داند جای گلخنهای او 3045
  • Then who (but He) should know the way to His roseries? Then who (but He) should know the way to His furnaces?
  • دیدبان دل نبیند در مجال ** کز کدامین رکن جان آید خیال
  • The sentry of the heart, while on his round, does not see from what corner of the soul the fancy comes.
  • گر بدیدی مطلعش را ز احتیال ** بند کردی راه هر ناخوش خیال
  • If he saw its rising-place, he would contrive to bar the way to every unlovely fancy;
  • کی رسد جاسوس را آنجا قدم ** که بود مرصاد و در بند عدم
  • (But) how should the foot of the scout reach that spot?—for it is the watchtower and mountain-fortress of Non-existence.
  • دامن فضلش بکف کن کوروار ** قبض اعمی این بود ای شهره‌یار
  • Blindly lay hold of the skirt of His grace: this is the blind man's seisin (act of taking legal possession), O king.
  • دامن او امر و فرمان ویست ** نیکبختی که تقی جان ویست 3050
  • His skirt is His command and behest: fortunate is he to whom piety is (as) his soul.
  • آن یکی در مرغزار و جوی آب ** و آن یکی پهلوی او اندر عذاب
  • The (blessed) one is in (the midst of) meadows and water-brooks, while the other (unblest) one beside him is in torment.
  • او عجب مانده که ذوق این ز چیست ** و آن عجب مانده که این در حبس کیست
  • He (the latter) remains in wonderment, saying, “Wherefore is this man's delight?” and the other remains in wonderment, saying, “In whose prison is this man?
  • هین چرا خشکی که اینجا چشمه هاست ** هین چرا زردی که اینجا صد دواست
  • Hark, why art thou parched?—for here are fountains. Hark, why art thou pale?—for here are a hundred remedies.
  • همنشینا هین در آ اندر چمن ** گوید ای جان من نیارم آمدن
  • Hark, neighbour, come into the garden!” He (the unblest man) says, “O (dear) soul, I cannot come.”
  • حکایت امیر و غلامش کی نماز باره بود وانس عظیم داشت در نماز و مناجات با حق
  • Story of the Amír and his slave who was very fond of the ritual prayer and had a great joy in the ritual prayer and in communing with God.