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  • لیک الله الله ای قوم جلیل ** تا نباشد خوردتان فرزند پیل
  • But, for God's sake, for God's sake, O illustrious company, let not your food be the young of the elephant!
  • پیل هست این سو که اکنون می‌روید ** پیل‌زاده مشکرید و بشنوید
  • The elephant is in this direction that ye are now going; do not tear in pieces the elephant's offspring, but hearken (to me).
  • پیل‌بچگانند اندر راهتان ** صید ایشان هست بس دلخواهتان 75
  • The young elephants are on your road: to hunt them down is what your hearts desire exceedingly.
  • بس ضعیف‌اند و لطیف و بس سمین ** لیک مادر هست طالب در کمین
  • They are very weak and tender and very fat, but their mother is searching (after them and) lying in wait.
  • از پی فرزند صد فرسنگ راه ** او بگردد در حنین و آه آه
  • She will roam a hundred leagues' distance in quest of her children, moaning and making lament.
  • آتش و دود آید از خرطوم او ** الحذر زان کودک مرحوم او
  • Fire and smoke issue from her trunk: beware of (hurting) those pitied (cherished) children of hers!”
  • اولیا اطفال حق‌اند ای پسر ** غایبی و حاضری بس با خبر
  • O son, the saints are God's children: (both) in (their) absence and presence (He is) well aware (of what befalls them).
  • غایبی مندیش از نقصانشان ** کو کشد کین از برای جانشان 80
  • Do not deem absence (from Him) to be the result of imperfection on their part, for He takes vengeance for the sake of their spirits (which are one with Him).
  • گفت اطفال من‌اند این اولیا ** در غریبی فرد از کار و کیا
  • He said, “These saints are My children in exile, sundered from (My) dominion and glory;
  • از برای امتحان خوار و یتیم ** لیک اندر سر منم یار و ندیم
  • (They are) despised and orphaned for the sake of probation, but secretly I am their friend and intimate.
  • پشت‌دار جمله عصمتهای من ** گوییا هستند خود اجزای من
  • All of them are supported by My protections: you may say they are in sooth parts of Me.
  • هان و هان این دلق‌پوشان من‌اند ** صد هزار اندر هزار و یک تن‌اند
  • Take heed! Take heed! These are My dervishes; they are a hundred thousand thousand and (yet) they are one body.”
  • ورنه کی کردی به یک چوبی هنر ** موسیی فرعون را زیر و زبر 85
  • Else, how should a Moses have overthrown Pharaoh by means of one goodly rod?
  • ورنه کی کردی به یک نفرین بد ** نوح شرق و غرب را غرقاب خود
  • Else, how should Noah have submerged East and West in his Flood by means of one evil curse?
  • بر نکندی یک دعای لوط راد ** جمله شهرستانشان را بی مراد
  • One prayer of the generous Lot would not have rased (to the ground) all their (his people's) city (and left them) in despair.
  • گشت شهرستان چون فردوسشان ** دجله‌ی آب سیه رو بین نشان
  • Their city, resembling Paradise, became a lake of black water: go, behold the sign!
  • سوی شامست این نشان و این خبر ** در ره قدسش ببینی در گذر
  • This sign and this information (admonition) lies in the direction of Syria: you will see it as you pass on the way to Jerusalem.
  • صد هزاران ز انبیای حق‌پرست ** خود بهر قرنی سیاستها بدست 90
  • Hundreds of thousands of prophets who worshipped God— truly there have been chastisements (inflicted by them) in every generation.
  • گر بگویم وین بیان افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که کهها خون شود
  • If I should tell on and if this narration should increase (in length), not only (men's) hearts but the (very) mountains would bleed.
  • خون شود کهها و باز آن بفسرد ** تو نبینی خون شدن کوری و رد
  • The mountains bleed and again become solid, (but) you do not see them bleed: you are blind and reprobate.
  • طرفه کوری دوربین تیزچشم ** لیک از اشتر نبیند غیر پشم
  • A marvellous blind man, (who is) far-sighted and keen-eyed, but sees naught of the camel except the hair!
  • مو بمو بیند ز صرفه حرص انس ** رقص بی مقصود دارد همچو خرس
  • Man, from the parsimony of greed, inspects hair by hair: like a bear, he keeps dancing to no purpose.
  • رقص آنجا کن که خود را بشکنی ** پنبه را از ریش شهوت بر کنی 95
  • Dance (only) where you break (mortify) yourself and (when you) tear away the cotton from the sore of lust.
  • رقص و جولان بر سر میدان کنند ** رقص اندر خون خود مردان کنند
  • (Holy) men dance and wheel on the (spiritual) battle-field: they dance in their own blood.
  • چون رهند از دست خود دستی زنند ** چون جهند از نقص خود رقصی کنند
  • When they are freed from the hand (dominion) of self, they clap a hand; when they escape from their own imperfection, they make a dance.