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  • پا بکش در کشتی و می‌رو روان ** چون سوی معشوق جان جان روان
  • Set your foot into the ship and keep going quickly, like the soul going towards the soul's Beloved.
  • دست نه و پای نه رو تا قدم ** آن چنانک تاخت جانها از عدم
  • (With) no hands and no feet, go to Eternity in the same fashion as that in which the spirits sped from non-existence.
  • بردریدی در سخن پرده‌ی قیاس ** گر نبودی سمع سامع را نعاس
  • If there had not been somnolence (dullness and inattention) in the hearer's hearing, the veil of logical reasoning would have been torn asunder in the discourse.
  • ای فلک بر گفت او گوهر ببار ** از جهان او جهانا شرم دار 560
  • O Heaven, shower pearls on his (the Shaykh's) rede! O World, have shame of (be abashed by) his world!
  • گر بباری گوهرت صد تا شود ** جامدت بیننده و گویا شود
  • If thou wilt shower (pearls), thy substance will become (increased in splendour) hundredfold: thy inorganic (matter) will become seeing and speaking.
  • پس نثاری کرده باشی بهر خود ** چونک هر سرمایه‌ی تو صد شود
  • Therefore thou wilt have scattered a largesse for thine own sake, inasmuch as every stock of thine will be centupled.
  • قصه‌ی هدیه فرستادن بلقیس از شهر سبا سوی سلیمان علیه‌السلام
  • Story of Bilqís' sending a gift from the city of Sabá to Solomon, on whom be peace.
  • هدیه‌ی بلقیس چل استر بدست ** بار آنها جمله خشت زر بدست
  • The gift of Bilqís was forty mules: their whole load consisted of bricks of gold.
  • چون به صحرای سلیمانی رسید ** فرش آن را جمله زر پخته دید
  • When he (the envoy) reached the open plain, belonging to Solomon, he saw that its carpet was (made) entirely of solid gold.
  • بر سر زر تا چهل منزل براند ** تا که زر را در نظر آبی نماند 565
  • He rode on gold for the distance of forty stages, till gold had no more esteem in his sight.
  • بارها گفتند زر را وا بریم ** سوی مخزن ما چه بیگار اندریم
  • (Many) times they said, “Let us take the gold back to the treasury: what a (fruitless) quest are we (engaged) in!
  • عرصه‌ای کش خاک زر ده دهیست ** زر به هدیه بردن آنجا ابلهیست
  • A spacious land of which the soil is pure gold—to bring gold thither as a gift is folly.”
  • ای ببرده عقل هدیه تا اله ** عقل آنجا کمترست از خاک راه
  • O thou who hast brought intelligence to God as a gift, there intelligence is less (in value) than the dust of the road.
  • چون کساد هدیه آنجا شد پدید ** شرمساریشان همی واپس کشید
  • When the worthlessness of the gift became apparent there (in Solomon's kingdom), shamefacedness was drawing them back (towards Bilqís);
  • باز گفتند ار کساد و ار روا ** چیست بر ما بنده فرمانیم ما 570
  • (But) again they said, “Whether it be worthless or valuable, what matter to us? We are slaves (bound) to (obey) the command.
  • گر زر و گر خاک ما را بردنیست ** امر فرمان‌ده به جا آوردنیست
  • Whether we have to bring gold or earth, the command of the one who gives the command is to be executed.
  • گر بفرمایند که واپس برید ** هم به فرمان تحفه را باز آورید
  • If they command you to bring it back (to Bilqís), (then) take the gift back according to the command.”
  • خنده‌ش آمد چون سلیمان آن بدید ** کز شما من کی طلب کردم ثرید
  • When Solomon beheld that (gift), he laughed, saying, “When did I seek tharíd from you?
  • من نمی‌گویم مرا هدیه دهید ** بلک گفتم لایق هدیه شوید
  • I do not bid you bestow gifts on me; nay, I bid you be worthy of the gifts (which I bestow);
  • که مرا از غیب نادر هدیه‌هاست ** که بشر آن را نیارد نیز خواست 575
  • For I have rare gifts (coming) from the Unseen, which human beings durst not even ask for.
  • می‌پرستید اختری کو زر کند ** رو باو آرید کو اختر کند
  • Ye worship the star (planet) that makes gold: turn your faces towards Him that makes the star.
  • می‌پرستید آفتاب چرخ را ** خوار کرده جان عالی‌نرخ را
  • Ye worship the sun in heaven, having despised the Spirit (which is) of high price.
  • آفتاب از امر حق طباخ ماست ** ابلهی باشد که گوییم او خداست
  • The sun, by command of God, is our cook: ’twere folly that we should say it is God.
  • آفتابت گر بگیرد چون کنی ** آن سیاهی زو تو چون بیرون کنی
  • If thy sun be eclipsed, what wilt thou do? How wilt thou expel that blackness from it?
  • نه به درگاه خدا آری صداع ** که سیاهی را ببر وا ده شعاع 580
  • Wilt not thou bring thy headache (trouble and pain) to the court of God, saying, ‘Take the blackness away, give back the radiance!’
  • گر کشندت نیم‌شب خورشید کو ** تا بنالی یا امان خواهی ازو
  • If they would kill thee at midnight, where is the sun, that thou shouldst wail (in supplication) and beg protection of it?