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  • من نیارم رو ز فرمان تافتن ** خصم خود را رو بیاور سوی من 4650
  • I dare not avert my face from the (Divine) command. Go, bring thy adversary before me.”

  • گفت قول تست برهان و درست ** خصم من بادست و او در حکم تست
  • It (the gnat) said, “Thy words are an argument (conclusive) and sound. My adversary is the Wind, and he is in thy jurisdiction.”

  • بانگ زد آن شه که ای باد صبا ** پشه افغان کرد از ظلمت بیا
  • The King shouted, “O East-wind, the gnat complains of thy injustice: come!

  • هین مقابل شو تو و خصم و بگو ** پاسخ خصم و بکن دفع عدو
  • Hark, come face to face with thy adversary and reply to thy adversary and rebut thy opponent.”

  • باد چون بشنید آمد تیز تیز ** پشه بگرفت آن زمان راه گریز
  • When the Wind heard (the summons), he came very rapidly: the gnat at once took to flight.

  • پس سلیمان گفت ای پشه کجا ** باش تا بر هر دو رانم من قضا 4655
  • Then Solomon said, “O gnat, where (art thou going)? Stop, that I may pass judgement on (you) both.”

  • گفت ای شه مرگ من از بود اوست ** خود سیاه این روز من از دود اوست
  • It (the gnat) answered, “O King, my death is from his being: verily, this day of mine is black from his smoke.

  • او چو آمد من کجا یابم قرار ** کو بر آرد از نهاد من دمار
  • Since he has come, where shall I find rest? for he wrings the (vital) breath out of my body.”

  • همچنین جویای درگاه خدا ** چون خدا آمد شود جوینده لا
  • Even such is the seeker of the Court of God: when God comes, the seeker is naughted.

  • گرچه آن وصلت بقا اندر بقاست ** لیک ز اول آن بقا اندر فناست
  • Although that union (with God) is immortality on immortality, yet at first that immortality (baqá) consists in dying to self (faná).

  • سایه‌هایی که بود جویای نور ** نیست گردد چون کند نورش ظهور 4660
  • The reflexions that are seeking the Light are naughted when His Light appears.

  • عقل کی ماند چو باشد سرده او ** کل شیء هالک الا وجهه
  • How should the reason remain when He bids it go?Everything is perishing except His Face.

  • هالک آید پیش وجهش هست و نیست ** هستی اندر نیستی خود طرفه‌ایست
  • Before His Face the existent and the non-existent perish: existence in nonexistence is in sooth a marvellous thing!

  • اندرین محضر خردها شد ز دست ** چون قلم اینجا رسیده شد شکست
  • In this place of presence (all) minds are lost beyond control; when the pen reaches this point, it breaks.

  • نواختن معشوق عاشق بیهوش را تا به هوش باز آید
  • How the Beloved caressed the senseless lover, that he might return to his senses.

  • می‌کشید از بیهشی‌اش در بیان ** اندک اندک از کرم صدر جهان
  • The Sadr-i Jahán, from kindness, was drawing him little by little from senselessness into (the capacity for) clear expression.

  • بانگ زد در گوش او شه کای گدا ** زر نثار آوردمت دامن گشا 4665
  • The Prince cried into his ear, “O beggar, I bring gold to scatter o’er thee; spread out thy skirt.

  • جان تو کاندر فراقم می‌طپید ** چونک زنهارش رسیدم چون رمید
  • Thy spirit, which was quivering (with distress) in separation. from me—since I have come to protect it, how has it fled?

  • ای بدیده در فراقم گرم و سرد ** با خود آ از بی‌خودی و باز گرد
  • O thou who hast suffered heat and cold in separation from me, come to thyself from selflessness and return!”

  • مرغ خانه اشتری را بی خرد ** رسم مهمانش به خانه می‌برد
  • The domestic fowl, in the manner of a host, foolishly brings a camel to her house.

  • چون به خانه مرغ اشتر پا نهاد ** خانه ویران گشت و سقف اندر فتاد
  • When the camel set foot in the hen’s house, the house was destroyed and the roof fell in.

  • خانه‌ی مرغست هوش و عقل ما ** هوش صالح طالب ناقه‌ی خدا 4670
  • The hen’s house is our (weak) intelligence and understanding the good intelligence is a seeker of God’s she-camel

  • ناقه چون سر کرد در آب و گلش ** نه گل آنجا ماند نه جان و دلش
  • When the she-camel put her head into its water and clay, neither its clay remained there (in existence) nor its soul and heart.

  • کرد فضل عشق انسان را فضول ** زین فزون‌جویی ظلومست و جهول
  • Pre-eminence in love made Man overweening: because of this desire for excess he is very unjust and very ignorant.

  • جاهلست و اندرین مشکل شکار ** می‌کشد خرگوش شیری در کنار
  • He is ignorant, and in this difficult chase the hare is clasping a lion in his arms.

  • کی کنار اندر کشیدی شیر را ** گر بدانستی و دیدی شیر را
  • How would he clasp the lion in his arms, if he knew and saw the lion?