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2067-2091

  • هر که او اندر نظر موصول شد ** این خبرها پیش او معزول شد
  • Whoever has been caused to attain unto sight, before him these matters of hearsay are idle.
  • چونک با معشوق گشتی همنشین ** دفع کن دلالگان را بعد ازین
  • When you have sat down beside your beloved, after this banish the dallálas (the old women who act as go-betweens).
  • هر که از طفلی گذشت و مرد شد ** نامه و دلاله بر وی سرد شد
  • When any one has passed beyond childhood and has become a man, the letter and the dallála become irksome to him.
  • نامه خواند از پی تعلیم را ** حرف گوید از پی تفهیم را 2070
  • He reads letters, (but only) for the purpose of teaching (others); he utters words, (but only) for the purpose of making (others) understand.
  • پیش بینایان خبر گفتن خطاست ** کان دلیل غفلت و نقصان ماست
  • ’Tis wrong to speak by hearsay in the presence of those who see (who are endowed with vision), for it is a proof of our heedlessness and deficiency.
  • پیش بینا شد خموشی نفع تو ** بهر این آمد خطاب انصتوا
  • In the presence of the seer silence is to your advantage: on this account came (from God) the allocution, Be ye silent.
  • گر بفرماید بگو بر گوی خوش ** لیک اندک گو دراز اندر مکش
  • If he (the seer) bid you speak, speak gladly, but say little and do not draw out (your words) to length;
  • ور بفرماید که اندر کش دراز ** هم‌چنان شرمین بگو با امر ساز
  • And if he bid you draw them out to length, speak with the same modesty (as before) and comply with his command,
  • همچنین که من درین زیبا فسون ** با ضیاء الحق حسام‌الدین کنون 2075
  • Even as I (am complying) now, in this goodly enchantment (this enchanting poem), with (the command of) Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq (the Radiance of God) Husámu’ddín.
  • چونک کوته می‌کنم من از رشد ** او به صد نوعم بگفتن می‌کشد
  • When I am cutting short (my discourse) concerning (the Way of) righteousness, he draws me on to speak by a hundred kinds (of contrivance).
  • ای حسام‌الدین ضیاء ذوالجلال ** چونک می‌بینی چه می‌جویی مقال
  • O Husámu’ddín, Radiance of the Almighty, inasmuch as thou art seeing, why dost thou seek speech (from me)?
  • این مگر باشد ز حب مشتهی ** اسقنی خمرا و قل لی انها
  • Perchance this demand (on thy part) may arise from (thy) love for the Desired One, (as the poet said), “Give me wine to drink and tell me that it is (wine).”
  • بر دهان تست این دم جام او ** گوش می‌گوید که قسم گوش کو
  • At this moment His cup is at thy mouth, (but thy) ear says, “Where is the ear's portion?”
  • قسم تو گرمیست نک گرمی و مست ** گفت حرص من ازین افزون‌ترست 2080
  • (O ear), thy portion is the heat (of love): lo, thou art heated and intoxicated. It replied, “My greed is greater than this.”
  • جواب گفتن مصطفی علیه‌السلام اعتراض کننده را
  • How Mustafá, on whom be peace, answered the objector.
  • در حضور مصطفای قندخو ** چون ز حد برد آن عرب از گفت و گو
  • When that Arab carried disputation beyond bounds in the presence of sweettempered Mustafá,
  • آن شه والنجم و سلطان عبس ** لب گزید آن سرد دم را گفت بس
  • That king of Wa ’l-Najm and that sultan of ‘Abas bit his lip (in anger) and said to the silly prater, “Enough!”
  • دست می‌زند بهر منعش بر دهان ** چند گویی پیش دانای نهان
  • He was putting his hand on his (the objector's) mouth to prevent him, (as though to say), “How long wilt thou speak in the presence of one who knows the occult?”
  • پیش بینا برده‌ای سرگین خشک ** که بخر این را به جای ناف مشک
  • Thou hast brought dry ordure to one endowed with vision, saying, “Buy this instead of a musk-bag.”
  • بعر را ای گنده‌مغز گنده‌مخ ** زیر بینی بنهی و گویی که اخ 2085
  • O thou of stinking brain and stinking marrow, thou placest camel's dung beneath thy nose and sayest, “Oh, delicious!”
  • اخ اخی برداشتی ای گیج گاج ** تا که کالای بدت یابد رواج
  • O squinting crazy fool, thou hast exclaimed in delight, “Oh, oh,” that thy bad wares may find a ready sale,
  • تا فریبی آن مشام پاک را ** آن چریده‌ی گلشن افلاک را
  • And that thou mayst deceive that pure organ of (spiritual) smell, that which pastures in the celestial rose-garden.
  • حلم او خود را اگر چه گول ساخت ** خویشتن را اندکی باید شناخت
  • Though his (the saint's) forbearance has feigned to be stupid, one must know one's self a little.
  • دیگ را گر باز ماند امشب دهن ** گربه را هم شرم باید داشتن
  • If to-night the mouth of the cooking-pot is left open, yet the cat must have discretion.
  • خویشتن گر خفته کرد آن خوب فر ** سخت بیدارست دستارش مبر 2090
  • If that glorious one (the saint) has feigned to be asleep, he is (really) very much awake: do not carry off his turban.
  • چند گویی ای لجوج بی‌صفا ** این فسون دیو پیش مصطفی
  • How long, O contumacious man devoid of (spiritual) excellence, wilt thou utter these Devil's enchantments in the presence of God's elect one?