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4761-4785

  • راتبه‌ی جانی ز شاه بی‌ندید  ** دم به دم در جان مستش می‌رسید 
  • And the spiritual ration from the peerless King was arriving in his intoxicated soul at every moment.
  • آن نه که ترسا و مشرک می‌خورند  ** زان غذایی که ملایک می‌خورند 
  • ’Twas not that (material food) which polytheists and Christians eat, (but) part of the (spiritual) food which the angels eat.
  • اندرون خویش استغنا بدید  ** گشت طغیانی ز استغنا پدید 
  • He felt self-sufficiency within himself, and from self-sufficiency emerged a feeling of insolent pride.
  • که نه من هم شاه و هم شه‌زاده‌ام  ** چون عنان خود بدین شه داده‌ام 
  • “Am not I,” said he, “both a king and a king's son? How have I let this King take control of me?
  • چون مرا ماهی بر آمد با لمع  ** من چرا باشم غباری را تبع  4765
  • Now that a resplendent moon has risen for me, why should I be following a (cloud of) dust?
  • آب در جوی منست و وقت ناز  ** ناز غیر از چه کشم من بی‌نیاز 
  • The water is (running) in my river-bed, and ’tis time to show disdain: wherefore should I who want nothing endure disdain from another?
  • سر چرا بندم چو درد سر نماند  ** وقت روی زرد و چشم تر نماند 
  • Why should I bandage my head when my headache is gone? The time for pale face and tearful eye is past.
  • چون شکرلب گشته‌ام عارض قمر  ** باز باید کرد دکان دگر 
  • Since my lips have become (sweet) as sugar and my cheeks (bright) as the moon, I must open another (independent) shop.”
  • زین منی چون نفس زاییدن گرفت  ** صد هزاران ژاژ خاییدن گرفت 
  • When his carnal soul began to spawn from this egoism, he began to chew a hundred thousand thistles (cherish absurd fancies).
  • صد بیابان زان سوی حرص و حسد  ** تا بدان‌جا چشم بد هم می‌رسد  4770
  • Even the evil eye can traverse a hundred deserts to reach the object of its greed and envy:
  • بحر شه که مرجع هر آب اوست  ** چون نداند آنچ اندر سیل و جوست 
  • How, (then), should the sea of the King, to which every water returns, be ignorant of what is (contained) in torrent and river?
  • شاه را دل درد کرد از فکر او  ** ناسپاسی عطای بکر او 
  • The King's heart was pained by his (the prince's) thoughts and the ingratitude (shown) for his virgin (ever new) munificence.
  • گفت آخر ای خس واهی‌ادب  ** این سزای داد من بود ای عجب 
  • He said (to himself), “Prithee, O base ill-mannered fellow, was this what my bounty deserved? Marvellous!
  • من چه کردم با تو زین گنج نفیس  ** تو چه کردی با من از خوی خسیس 
  • (Look) how I have dealt with thee in (lavishing) this precious treasure! (Look) how thou hast dealt with me in thy mean-spiritedness!
  • من ترا ماهی نهادم در کنار  ** که غروبش نیست تا روز شمار  4775
  • I have put in thy bosom a moon that will never set till the Day of Reckoning,
  • در جزای آن عطای نور پاک  ** تو زدی در دیده‌ی من خار و خاک 
  • And in requital for that gift of pure light thou hast thrown thorns and earth in mine eye.
  • من ترا بر چرخ گشته نردبان  ** تو شده در حرب من تیر و کمان 
  • I have become for thee a ladder to Heaven, and thou hast become a bow and arrow in combat with me.”
  • درد غیرت آمد اندر شه پدید  ** عکس درد شاه اندر وی رسید 
  • Pangs of jealousy arose in (the heart of) the King: the reflexion of the King's pangs entered into him (the prince).
  • مرغ دولت در عتابش بر طپید  ** پرده‌ی آن گوشه گشته بر درید 
  • The bird of his felicity fluttered violently in reproaching him and tore the veil (exposed the disgrace) of him who had sought seclusion (made himself independent of the King).
  • چون درون خود بدید آن خوش‌پسر  ** از سیه‌کاری خود گرد و اثر  4780
  • When the comely youth felt within himself the dust and (disturbing) effects of his wicked behaviour,
  • از وظیفه‌ی لطف و نعمت کم شده  ** خانه‌ی شادی او پر غم شده 
  • (And saw that) the allowance of favour and bounty had failed and that the house of his joy was filled with sorrow,
  • با خود آمد او ز مستی عقار  ** زان گنه گشته سرش خانه‌ی خمار 
  • He came to himself (recovered) from the intoxication caused by the wine (of egoism); (but) in consequence of that sin his head became the abode of crop-sickness.
  • خورده گندم حله زو بیرون شده  ** خلد بر وی بادیه و هامون شده 
  • He had eaten the wheat (the forbidden fruit), his celestial robe had been stripped off him, and Paradise had become for him a desert and sandy plain.
  • دید کان شربت ورا بیمار کرد  ** زهر آن ما و منیها کار کرد 
  • He perceived that that (intoxicating) draught had made him ill and that the poison of those egoistic pretensions had done its work.
  • جان چون طاوس در گل‌زار ناز  ** هم‌چو چغدی شد به ویرانه‌ی مجاز  4785
  • His soul that was (formerly) like a peacock in the (eternal) garden of delight (now) became like an owl in the wilderness of unreality.