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153-177

  • هم بدین نیت که این تن مرکبست  ** آنچ خو کردست آنش اصوبست 
  • With the intention (of acting on the principle) that (since) this body is your riding-beast that to which it is accustomed is best for it.
  • هین مگردان خو که پیش آید خلل  ** در دماغ و دل بزاید صد علل 
  • Beware, do not alter your habit, else mischief will ensure and a hundred maladies will be produced in brain and heart.”
  • این چنین تهدیدها آن دیو دون  ** آرد و بر خلق خواند صد فسون  155
  • Such menaces does the vile Devil employ, and he chants a hundred spells over the people.
  • خویش جالینوس سازد در دوا  ** تا فریبد نفس بیمار ترا 
  • He makes himself out to be a Galen (for skill) in medicine, that he may deceive your ailing soul.
  • کین ترا سودست از درد و غمی  ** گفت آدم را همین در گندمی 
  • “This,” says he, “is of use to you against any sorrow and pain.” He said the same thing to Adam about an ear of wheat.
  • پیش آرد هیهی و هیهات را  ** وز لویشه پیچد او لبهات را 
  • He utters (hypocritical expressions such as) “Ah, ah” and “Alas,” while he twists your lips with the farrier's barnacle,
  • هم‌چو لبهای فرس و در وقت نعل  ** تا نماید سنگ کمتر را چو لعل 
  • As (the farrier twists) the lips of a horse when shoeing it, in order that he (the Devil) may cause an inferior (worthless) stone to appear as a ruby.
  • گوشهاات گیرد او چون گوش اسب  ** می‌کشاند سوی حرص و سوی کسب  160
  • He takes hold of your ears as (though they were) the ears of a horse, pulling you towards greed and acquisition (of worldly goods).
  • بر زند بر پات نعلی ز اشتباه  ** که بمانی تو ز درد آن ز راه 
  • He claps on your foot a shoe of perplexity, by the pain of which you are left incapable of (advancing on) the Way.
  • نعل او هست آن تردد در دو کار  ** این کنم یا آن کنم هین هوش دار 
  • His shoe is that hesitation between the two works (of this world and of the world hereafter)—“Shall I do these or shall I do those?” Take heed!
  • آن بکن که هست مختار نبی  ** آن مکن که کرد مجنون و صبی 
  • Do that which is chosen by the Prophet, don't do that which (only) a madman or (foolish) boy ever did.
  • حفت الجنه بچه محفوف گشت  ** بالمکاره که ازو افزود کشت 
  • “Paradise is encompassed”—by what is it encompassed? By things disliked, from which there comes increase of the seed sown (for the future life).
  • صد فسون دارد ز حیلت وز دغا  ** که کند در سله گر هست اژدها  165
  • He (the Devil) hath a hundred spells of cunning and deceit, which would entrap (any one), even if he is (strong and wily as) a great serpent.
  • گر بود آب روان بر بنددش  ** ور بود حبر زمان برخنددش 
  • He (the Devil) will bind him, though he be (swift and elusive as) running water; he will make a mock of him, though he be the most learned man of the time.
  • عقل را با عقل یاری یار کن  ** امرهم شوری بخوان و کار کن 
  • (Therefore) associate your intelligence with the intelligence of a friend: recite (the text) their affairs are (carried on by) taking counsel with each other, and practise it.
  • نواختن مصطفی علیه‌السلام آن عرب مهمان را و تسکین دادن او را از اضطراب و گریه و نوحه کی بر خود می‌کرد در خجالت و ندامت و آتش نومیدی 
  • How Mustafá, on whom be peace, treated the Arab guest with loving kindness and calmed his distress and stilled the sobbing and lamentation for himself which he was making in his shame and penitence and fire of despair.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد آن عرب  ** ماند از الطاف آن شه در عجب 
  • This topic hath no end. The Arab was astounded by the kindnesses of that (spiritual) King.
  • خواست دیوانه شدن عقلش رمید  ** دست عقل مصطفی بازش کشید 
  • He was wellnigh becoming crazed, his reason fled (from him), but the hand (power) of Mustafá's reason drew him back.
  • گفت این سو آ بیامد آنچنان  ** که کسی برخیزد از خواب گران  170
  • He (Mustafá) said, “Come hither.” He came in such fashion as one rises up from heavy slumber.
  • گفت این سو آ مکن هین با خود آ  ** که ازین سو هست با تو کارها 
  • “Come hither,” said he, “do not (lose thy wits); hark, come to thyself, for there are (great) things to be done with thee here.”
  • آب بر رو زد در آمد در سخن  ** کای شهید حق شهادت عرضه کن 
  • He threw water on his face, and he (the infidel) began to speak, saying, “O witness of God, recite the Testimony (profession of the Faith),
  • تا گواهی بدهم و بیرون شوم  ** سیرم از هستی در آن هامون شوم 
  • That I may bear witness (to its truth) and go forth (from unbelief): I am weary of this (unreal) existence and will go into the wilderness (of reality).”
  • ما درین دهلیز قاضی قضا  ** بهر دعوی الستیم و بلی 
  • In this court of the Judge who pronounces the Decree we are (present) for the purpose of (making good) our claim (to fulfil the covenant signified by the words) “Am not I (your Lord)?” and “Yea”;
  • که بلی گفتیم و آن را ز امتحان  ** فعل و قول ما شهودست و بیان  175
  • For we said, “Yea,” and (since we are) on trial our acts and words are the (necessary) witnesses and evidence of that (assent).
  • از چه در دهلیز قاضی ای گواه  ** حبس باشی ده شهادت از پگاه 
  • Wherefore do we keep silence in the court of the Judge? Have not we come (here) to bear testimony?
  • چند در دهلیز قاضی ای گواه‌  ** حبس باشی ده شهادت از بگاه
  • How long, O witness, wilt thou remain under detention in the court of the Judge? Give thy testimony betimes.