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  • گوشه‌ای خالی شد و او با عیال ** رفت آنجا جای تنگ و بی مجال
  • A nook was cleared, and he with his family went thither: (’twas) a narrow place and without room to turn.
  • چون ملخ بر همدگر گشته سوار ** از نهیب سیل اندر کنج غار 635
  • Mounted upon one another, like locusts, (and crowded) from terror of the flood into the corner of the cavern,
  • شب همه شب جمله گویان ای خدا ** این سزای ما سزای ما سزا
  • During the night, the whole night, they all (were) crying, “O God, this serves us right, serves us right, serves us right.”
  • این سزای آنک شد یار خسان ** یا کسی کرداز برای ناکسان
  • This is what is deserved by him that consorted with the vile, or showed worthiness for the sake of the unworthy.
  • این سزای آنک اندر طمع خام ** ترک گوید خدمت خاک کرام
  • This is what is deserved by him that in vain desire gives up paying homage to the dust of the noble.
  • خاک پاکان لیسی و دیوارشان ** بهتر از عام و رز و گلزارشان
  • That you lick the dust and the wall of the pure (elect) is better (for you) than the vulgar and their vines and rose-gardens.
  • بنده‌ی یک مرد روشن‌دل شوی ** به که بر فرق سر شاهان روی 640
  • That you become a slave to a man of enlightened heart is better (for you) than that you should walk upon the crown of the head of kings.
  • از ملوک خاک جز بانگ دهل ** تو نخواهی یافت ای پیک سبل
  • From the kings of earth you will get nothing but the (empty) noise of a drum, O courier of (many) roads.
  • شهریان خود ره‌زنان نسبت بروح ** روستایی کیست گیج و بی فتوح
  • Even the townsmen are brigands in comparison with the Spirit. Who is the countryman? The fool that is without spiritual gifts.
  • این سزای آنک بی تدبیر عقل ** بانگ غولی آمدش بگزید نقل
  • This is what is deserved by him who, (when) the cry of a ghoul came to him, without rational foresight chose to move (towards the ghoul).
  • چون پشیمانی ز دل شد تا شغاف ** زان سپس سودی ندارد اعتراف
  • When repentance has gone from the (core of the) heart to the pericardium after that it is of no use to acknowledge (one's sin).
  • آن کمان و تیر اندر دست او ** گرگ را جویان همه شب سو بسو 645
  • (With) the bow and arrow in his hand, he (was) seeking the wolf all night to and fro.
  • گرگ بر وی خود مسلط چون شرر ** گرگ جویان و ز گرگ او بی‌خبر
  • The wolf, in sooth, was given power over him, like sparks of fire: (he was) seeking the wolf (outside), and (was) unaware of the wolf (within himself).
  • هر پشه هر کیک چون گرگی شده ** اندر آن ویرانه‌شان زخمی زده
  • Every gnat, every flea, had become as a wolf and inflicted a wound upon them in that ruined place.
  • فرصت آن پشه راندن هم نبود ** از نهیب حمله‌ی گرگ عنود
  • There was no opportunity even of driving away those gnats, because of (their) dread of an attack by the contumacious wolf,
  • تا نباید گرگ آسیبی زند ** روستایی ریش خواجه بر کند
  • Lest the wolf should inflict some damage, (and then) the countryman would tear out the Khwája's beard.
  • این چنین دندان‌کنان تا نیمشب ** جانشان از ناف می‌آمد به لب 650
  • In this wise (they were) gnashing their teeth till midnight: their souls were coming (up) from the navel to the lip.
  • ناگهان تمثال گرگ هشته‌ای ** سر بر آورد از فراز پشته‌ای
  • Suddenly the figure of a deserted (solitary) wolf raised its head (appeared) from the top of a hillock.
  • تیر را بگشاد آن خواجه ز شست ** زد بر آن حیوان که تا افتاد پست
  • The Khwája loosed the arrow from the thumbstall and shot at the animal, so that it fell to the ground.
  • اندر افتادن ز حیوان باد جست ** روستایی های کرد و کوفت دست
  • In falling, wind escaped from the animal: the countryman uttered a wail and beat his hands,
  • ناجوامردا که خرکره‌ی منست ** گفت نه این گرگ چون آهرمنست
  • (Crying), “O ungenerous (wretch), it is my ass-colt!” “Nay,” said he, “this is the devilish wolf.
  • اندرو اشکال گرگی ظاهرست ** شکل او از گرگی او مخبرست 655
  • The features of wolfishness are apparent in it; its form makes (one) acquainted with its wolfishness.”
  • گفت نه بادی که جست از فرج وی ** می‌شناسم همچنانک آبی ز می
  • “Nay,” he said, “I know the wind that escaped from its arse as well as (I know) water from wine.
  • کشته‌ای خرکره‌ام را در ریاض ** که مبادت بسط هرگز ز انقباض
  • Thou hast killed my ass-colt in the meadows—mayst thou never be released from anguish!”
  • گفت نیکوتر تفحص کن شبست ** شخصها در شب ز ناظر محجبست
  • “Make a better investigation,” he replied; “it is night, and at night material objects are screened from the beholder.
  • شب غلط بنماید و مبدل بسی ** دید صایب شب ندارد هر کسی
  • Night causes many a thing to appear wrong and changed (from its proper aspect): not every one has the (power of) seeing correctly by night.
  • هم شب و هم ابر و هم باران ژرف ** این سه تاریکی غلط آرد شگرف 660
  • (Now there is) both night and clouds and heavy rain withal: these three darknesses produce great error.”
  • گفت آن بر من چو روز روشنست ** می‌شناسم باد خرکره‌ی منست
  • He said, “To me ’tis as (manifest as) bright day: I know (it), it is the wind of my ass-colt.
  • در میان بیست باد آن باد را ** می‌شناسم چون مسافر زاد را
  • Amongst twenty winds I know that wind as the traveller (knows) his provisions for the journey.”
  • خواجه بر جست و بیامد ناشکفت ** روستایی را گریبانش گرفت
  • The Khwája sprang up, and losing patience he seized the countryman by his collar,
  • کابله طرار شید آورده‌ای ** بنگ و افیون هر دو با هم خورده‌ای
  • Crying, “O fool and cutpurse, thou hast shown hypocrisy: thou hast eaten both beng and opium together.
  • در سه تاریکی شناسی باد خر ** چون ندانی مر مرا ای خیره‌سر 665
  • Amidst three darknesses thou knowest the wind of the ass: how dost not thou know me, O giddy-head?
  • آنک داند نیمشب گوساله را ** چون نداند همره ده‌ساله را
  • He that knows a colt at midnight, how should he not know his own ten years' comrade?”
  • خویشتن را عارف و واله کنی ** خاک در چشم مروت می‌زنی
  • Thou art feigning to be a gnostic and distraught (with love of God): thou art throwing dust in the eyes of generosity,
  • که مرا از خویش هم آگاه نیست ** در دلم گنجای جز الله نیست
  • Saying, “I have no consciousness even of myself: in my heart there is no room for aught but God.
  • آنچ دی خوردم از آنم یاد نیست ** این دل از غیر تحیر شاد نیست
  • I have no recollection of what I ate yesterday: this heart takes joy in nothing except bewilderment.
  • عاقل و مجنون حقم یاد آر ** در چنین بی‌خویشیم معذور دار 670
  • I am sane and maddened by God: remember (this), and (since I am) in such a state of selflessness, hold me excusable.
  • آنک مرداری خورد یعنی نبید ** شرع او را سوی معذوران کشید
  • He that eats carrion, that is to say, (drinks) date-wine—the (religious) Law enrols him amongst those who are excused.
  • مست و بنگی را طلاق و بیع نیست ** همچو طفلست او معاف و معتقیست
  • The drunkard and eater of beng has not (the right of) divorce or barter; he is even as a child: he is a person absolved and emancipated.
  • مستیی کید ز بوی شاه فرد ** صد خم می در سر و مغز آن نکرد
  • The intoxication that arises from the scent of the unique King—a hundred vats of wine never wrought that (intoxication) in head and brain.
  • پس برو تکلیف چون باشد روا ** اسب ساقط گشت و شد بی دست و پا
  • To him (the God-intoxicated man), then, how should the obligation (to keep the Law) be applicable? The horse is fallen (out of account) and has become unable to move.
  • بار کی نهد در جهان خرکره را ** درس کی دهد پارسی بومره را 675
  • Who in the world would lay a load upon the ass-colt? Who would give lessons in Persian to Bú Murra?
  • بار بر گیرند چون آمد عرج ** گفت حق لیس علی الاعمی حرج
  • When lameness comes, the load is taken off: God hath said,It is no sin in the blind.
  • سوی خود اعمی شدم از حق بصیر ** پس معافم از قلیل و از کثیر
  • I have become blind in regard to myself, seeing by (the grace of) God: therefore I am absolved from the small (obligation) and from the great.”
  • لاف درویشی زنی و بی‌خودی ** های هوی مستیان ایزدی
  • Thou braggest of thy dervishhood and selflessness, (thou utterest) the wailful cries of those intoxicated with God,
  • که زمین را من ندانم ز آسمان ** امتحانت کرد غیرت امتحان
  • Saying, “I know not earth from heaven.” The (Divine) jealousy hath tried thee, tried thee (and found thee wanting).
  • باد خرکره‌ی چنین رسوات کرد ** هستی نفی ترا اثبات کرد 680
  • Thus hath the wind of thy ass-colt put thee to shame, thus hath it affirmed the existence of thy self-negation.
  • این چنین رسوا کند حق شید را ** این چنین گیرد رمیده‌صید را
  • In this wise doth God expose hypocrisy, in this wise doth He catch the quarry that has started away.
  • صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
  • There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”
  • گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
  • If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).