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2852-2901

  • مادر و بابای ما را آن حسود ** تاج و پیرایه بچالاکی ربود
  • That envious one nimbly snatched away our mother's and father's crown and ornament.
  • کردشان آنجا برهنه و زار و خوار ** سالها بگریست آدم زار زار
  • There he made them naked and wretched and despicable: (many) years did Adam weep bitterly,
  • که ز اشک چشم او رویید نبت ** که چرا اندر جریده‌ی لاست ثبت
  • So that (sweet) herbs grew from the tears of his eyes: (he wept, wondering) why he was inscribed in the scroll of lá (negation).
  • تو قیاسی گیر طراریش را ** که چنان سرور کند زو ریش را 2855
  • Judge thou of his (the Devil's) impudent cheatery from the fact that on account of him such a prince (as Adam) rends his beard (in sorrow).
  • الحذر ای گل‌پرستان از شرش ** تیغ لا حولی زنید اندر سرش
  • Beware, O clay-worshippers, of his malice: smite the sword of lá hawl on his head!
  • کو همی‌بیند شما را از کمین ** که شما او را نمی‌بینید هین
  • For he sees you from ambush, so that ye see him not. Take care!
  • دایما صیاد ریزد دانه‌ها ** دانه پیدا باشد و پنهان دغا
  • The fowler scatters grain incessantly: the grain is visible, but the deceit is hidden.
  • هر کجا دانه بدیدی الحذر ** تا نبندد دام بر تو بال و پر
  • Wherever you see the grain, beware, lest the trap confine your wings and pinions,
  • زانک مرغی کو بترک دانه کرد ** دانه از صحرای بی تزویر خورد 2860
  • Because the bird that takes leave of (relinquishes) the grain (bait), eats grain from the spacious field (of Reality) that is without imposture.
  • هم بدان قانع شد و از دام جست ** هیچ دامی پر و بالش را نبست
  • With that (grain) it is contented, and escapes the trap: no trap confines its wings and pinions.
  • وخامت کار آن مرغ کی ترک حزم کرد از حرص و هوا
  • The banefulness of the action of the bird that abandons prudence from (motives of) greed and vain desire.
  • باز مرغی فوق دیواری نشست ** دیده سوی دانه دامی ببست
  • Again, a bird settles on a wall and fastens its eyes upon the grain in a trap.
  • یک نظر او سوی صحرا می‌کند ** یک نظر حرصش به دانه می‌کشد
  • Now it looks towards the open country, (while) now its greed leads it to look at the grain.
  • این نظر با آن نظر چالیش کرد ** ناگهانی از خرد خالیش کرد
  • This look struggles with that look and suddenly makes it (the bird) empty of wisdom.
  • باز مرغی کان تردد را گذاشت ** زان نظر بر کند و بر صحرا گماشت 2865
  • Again, a bird that has abandoned that vacillation turns its gaze away from that (grain) and fixes it upon the open fields.
  • شاد پر و بال او بخا له ** تا امام جمله آزادان شد او
  • Glad (glistening) are its wings and pinions: how goodly it is, since it has become the leader of all the free.
  • هر که او را مقتدا سازد برست ** در مقام امن و آزادی نشست
  • Every one who makes it his model is saved and sits in the abode of security and freedom,
  • زانک شاه حازمان آمد دلش ** تا گلستان و چمن شد منزلش
  • Because his heart has become the king of the prudent, so that the rosery and garden (of Paradise) has become his dwelling-place.
  • حزم ازو راضی و او راضی ز حزم ** این چنین کن گر کنی تدبیر و عزم
  • Prudence is pleased with him, and he pleased with Prudence: do likewise, if you would act with foresight and resolution.
  • بارها در دام حرص افتاده‌ای ** حلق خود را در بریدن داده‌ای 2870
  • Many a time have you fallen into the snare of greed and given up your throat to be cut;
  • بازت آن تواب لطف آزاد کرد ** توبه پذرفت و شما را شاد کرد
  • Again He that graciously disposes (hearts) to repentance hath set you free and accepted your repentance and made you glad.
  • گفت ان عدتم کذا عدنا کذا ** نحن زوجنا الفعال بالجزا
  • He hath said, “If ye return thus, We will return thus: We have wedded the actions to the retribution.
  • چونک جفتی را بر خود آورم ** آید آن را جفتش دوانه لاجرم
  • When I bring one mate to Myself, the other mate inevitably comes running (after it).
  • جفت کردیم این عمل را با اثر ** چون رسد جفتی رسد جفتی دگر
  • We have mated this action with the effect: when one mate arrives, another mate arrives.”
  • چون رباید غارتی از جفت شوی ** جفت می‌آید پس او شوی‌جوی 2875
  • When a raider carries off the husband from the wife, the wife comes after him, seeking her husband.
  • بار دیگر سوی این دام آمدیت ** خاک اندر دیده‌ی توبه زدیت
  • Once more ye have come towards this snare and have thrown dust in the eyes of repentance.
  • بازتان تواب بگشاد از گره ** گفت هین بگریز روی این سو منه
  • Again that Forgiving One hath loosed that knot for you and hath said, “Beware! Flee! Set not your face in this direction!”
  • باز چون پروانه‌ی نسیان رسید ** جانتان را جانب آتش کشید
  • Again, when the mandate of forgetfulness arrived, it drew your soul towards the Fire.
  • کم کن ای پروانه نسیان و شکی ** در پر سوزیده بنگر تو یکی
  • O you moth, do not show any forgetfulness and doubt: look once at your burnt wing!
  • چون رهیدی شکر آن باشد که هیچ ** سوی آن دانه نداری پیچ پیچ 2880
  • Since you are saved, the thanksgiving is this, that you should have no inclination towards that grain,
  • تا ترا چون شکر گویی بخشد او ** روزیی بی دام و بی خوف عدو
  • In order that, when you say thanks, He may bestow on you the daily bread that is without snare and without fear of the enemy.
  • شکر آن نعمت که‌تان آزاد کرد ** نعمت حق را بباید یاد کرد
  • In thanksgiving for the bounty shown in setting you free, it behoves you to commemorate the bounty of God.
  • چند اندر رنجها و در بلا ** گفتی از دامم رها ده ای خدا
  • How oft in sorrows and in tribulation have you cried, “O God, deliver me from the snare,
  • تا چنین خدمت کنم احسان کنم ** خاک اندر دیده‌ی شیطان زنم
  • That I may do suchlike service (to Thee) and practise beneficence and throw dust in the eyes of the Devil!”
  • حکایت نذر کردن سگان هر زمستان کی این تابستان چون بیاید خانه سازیم از بهر زمستان را
  • Story of the vow made by the dogs every winter that when next summer comes they will build a house for the winter.
  • سگ زمستان جمع گردد استخوانش ** زخم سرما خرد گرداند چنانش 2885
  • In winter the bones of the dog are drawn together: the blows of the frost make him so small
  • کو بگوید کین قدر تن که منم ** خانه‌ای از سنگ باید کردنم
  • That he says, “Having such a little body, I must build a stone house.
  • چونک تابستان بیاید من بچنگ ** بهر سرما خانه‌ای سازم ز سنگ
  • When summer comes, I will build with my claws a stone house against the cold.”
  • چونک تابستان بیاید از گشاد ** استخوانها پهن گردد پوست شاد
  • (But) when summer comes, his bones expand from the relief (which he feels), and his skin grows sleek,
  • گوید او چون زفت بیند خویش را ** در کدامین خانه گنجم ای کیا
  • And, when he sees himself stout, he says, “In what house should I find room, O noble sir?”
  • زفت گردد پا کشد در سایه‌ای ** کاهلی سیری غری خودرایه‌ای 2890
  • He grows stout and slinks into a shady place—a lazy, full-fed, cowardly, self-opinionated (creature)!
  • گویدش دل خانه‌ای ساز ای عمو ** گوید او در خانه کی گنجم بگو
  • His heart (conscience) says to him, “Build a house, O uncle!” He says, “How shall I find room in the house? Tell (me that).”
  • استخوان حرص تو در وقت درد ** درهم آید خرد گردد در نورد
  • In the hour of pain the bones of your greed shrink together and diminish in compass,
  • گویی از توبه بسازم خانه‌ای ** در زمستان باشدم استانه‌ای
  • And you say penitently, “I will build a house: it will be a resting-place (refuge) for me in winter”;
  • چون بشد درد و شدت آن حرص زفت ** همچو سگ سودای خانه از تو رفت
  • (But) when the pain is gone and your greed has grown stout, the desire for the house departs from you, just as (in the case of) the dog.
  • شکر نعمت خوشتر از نعمت بود ** شکرباره کی سوی نعمت رود 2895
  • Thanksgiving for the bounty is sweeter than the bounty (itself): how should he that is addicted to thanksgiving go towards (direct his attention to) the bounty?
  • شکر جان نعمت و نعمت چو پوست ** ز آنک شکر آرد ترا تا کوی دوست
  • Thanksgiving is the soul of the bounty, and the bounty is as the husk, because thanksgiving brings you to the abode of the Beloved.
  • نعمت آرد غفلت و شکر انتباه ** صید نعمت کن بدام شکر شاه
  • Bounty produces heedlessness, and thanksgiving alertness: hunt after bounty with the snare of thanksgiving to the King.
  • نعمت شکرت کند پرچشم و میر ** تا کنی صد نعمت ایثار فقیر
  • The bounty of thanksgiving will make you contented and princely, so that you will bestow a hundred bounties on the poor.
  • سیر نوشی از طعام و نقل حق ** تا رود از تو شکم‌خواری و دق
  • You will eat your fill of the viands and dessert of God, so that hunger and begging will depart from you.
  • منع کردن انبیا را از نصیحت کردن و حجت آوردن جبریانه
  • How the unbelievers stopped the prophets, on whom be peace, from giving admonition and brought forward Necessitarian arguments.
  • قوم گفتند ای نصوحان بس بود ** اینچ گفتید ار درین ده کس بود 2900
  • The people (of Sabá) said, “O admonishers, what ye have said is enough, if there be any one in this village.
  • قفل بر دلهای ما بنهاد حق ** کس نداند برد بر خالق سبق
  • God hath set a lock upon our hearts; none can prevail against the Creator.