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  • غافلی هم حکمتست و این عمی ** تا بماند لیک تا این حد چرا
  • True, (this) heedlessness and this blindness is (a manifestation of) Divine Wisdom, in order that he (the heedless man) may endure; but why (be heedless) to such an extent as this?
  • غافلی هم حکمتست و نعمتست ** تا نپرد زود سرمایه ز دست
  • True, heedlessness is (a manifestation of) Divine Wisdom and Bounty, in order that (his) stock-in-trade may not suddenly fly out of (his) hand;
  • لیک نی چندانک ناسوری شود ** زهر جان و عقل رنجوری شود 2610
  • But not (heedlessness) so great that it becomes an incurable sore and a poison to the spirit and intellect of one who is sick.
  • خود کی یابد این چنین بازار را ** که به یک گل می‌خری گلزار را
  • Who, really, can find bazaars like this where with a single rose thou art buying (whole) roseries;
  • دانه‌ای را صد درختستان عوض ** حبه‌ای را آمدت صد کان عوض
  • (Where) a hundred groves come (are offered) to thee in exchange for one seed, a hundred mines in exchange for one groat?
  • کان لله دادن آن حبه است ** تا که کان‌الله له آید به دست
  • Kána lilláh is the giving of that groat, in order that kána ’lláh lahú may come into (thy) hand;
  • زآنک این هوی ضعیف بی‌قرار ** هست شد زان هوی رب پایدار
  • For this weak unstable hú (personality) was brought into being by the steadfast (permanent) hú of the Lord.
  • هوی فانی چونک خود فا او سپرد ** گشت باقی دایم و هرگز نمرد 2615
  • When the hú that passes away has surrendered itself to Him, it becomes everlasting and never dies.
  • هم‌چو قطره‌ی خایف از باد و ز خاک ** که فنا گردد بدین هر دو هلاک
  • (’Tis) like a drop of water (which is) afraid of wind (air) and earth; for by means of these twain it is made to pass away (and perish.
  • چون به اصل خود که دریا بود جست ** از تف خورشید و باد و خاک رست
  • When it has leaped (thrown itself) into the sea, which was its source, it is delivered from the heat of the sun and from wind and earth.
  • ظاهرش گم گشت در دریا و لیک ** ذات او معصوم و پا بر جا و نیک
  • Its outward form has disappeared in the sea, but its essence is inviolate and permanent and goodly.
  • هین بده ای قطره خود را بی‌ندم ** تا بیابی در بهای قطره یم
  • Hark, O (thou who art like a) drop, give thyself up without repenting, that in recompense for the drop thou mayst gain the Ocean.
  • هین بده ای قطره خود را این شرف ** در کف دریا شو آمن از تلف 2620
  • Hark, O drop, bestow on thyself this honour, and in the hand of the Sea become safe from destruction.
  • خود کرا آید چنین دولت به دست ** قطره‌ای را بحری تقاضاگر شدست
  • Whom indeed should fortune like this befall? A Sea has become the suitor for a drop.
  • الله الله زود بفروش و بخر ** قطره‌ای ده بحر پر گوهر ببر
  • In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take (in return) the Sea which is full of pearls.
  • الله الله هیچ تاخیری مکن ** که ز بحر لطف آمد این سخن
  • In God's name, in God's name, do not make any postponement, for these words (of Moses) come from the Sea of Grace.
  • لطف اندر لطف این گم می‌شود ** که اسفلی بر چرخ هفتم می‌شود
  • (All other) grace is lost (vanishes away) in (comparison with) this grace, that one of the lowest is going up to the Seventh Heaven.
  • هین که یک بازی فتادت بوالعجب ** هیچ طالب این نیابد در طلب 2625
  • Hark, for a marvellous falcon has fallen to thee: no seeker will find it in (his) search.”
  • گفت با هامان بگویم ای ستیر ** شاه را لازم بود رای وزیر
  • He (Pharaoh) said, “I will tell Hámán, O veiled (modest) one: the counsel of the vizier is necessary to the king.”
  • گفت با هامان مگو این راز را ** کور کمپیری چه داند باز را
  • She said, “Do not tell Hámán this secret: what should a blind decrepit old woman know about a falcon?”
  • قصه‌ی باز پادشاه و کمپیر زن
  • Story of the king's falcon and the decrepit old woman.
  • باز اسپیدی به کمپیری دهی ** او ببرد ناخنش بهر بهی
  • (If) you give a white falcon to a decrepit old woman, she will clip its talons for the sake of (its supposed) welfare.
  • ناخنی که اصل کارست و شکار ** کور کمپیری ببرد کوروار
  • The blind old woman will blindly clip the talons which are the source of its usefulness in the chase,
  • که کجا بودست مادر که ترا ** ناخنان زین سان درازست ای کیا 2630
  • Saying, “Where has thy mother been, that thy talons are so long, O prince?”
  • ناخن و منقار و پرش را برید ** وقت مهر این می‌کند زال پلید
  • She clipped its talons and beak and wings: the filthy old hag does this at the time of (at the time when she is moved by) affection.
  • چونک تتماجش دهد او کم خورد ** خشم گیرد مهرها را بر درد
  • When she gives it tutmáj, it will not eat; (then) she is enraged and tears up her feelings of affection,
  • که چنین تتماج پختم بهر تو ** تو تکبر می‌نمایی و عتو
  • Saying, “I have cooked such (fine) tutmáj for thee, and thou art showing pride and insolence.
  • تو سزایی در همان رنج و بلا ** نعمت و اقبال کی سازد ترا
  • Thou deservest to be in that trouble and affliction: how should happiness and prosperity be suitable for thee?”
  • آن تتماجش دهد کین را بگیر ** گر نمی‌خواهی که نوشی زان فطیر 2635
  • She gives it the tutmáj broth, saying, “Take this, if thou dost not wish to eat of the pastry.”
  • آب تتماجش نگیرد طبع باز ** زال بترنجد شود خشمش دراز
  • The falcon's nature does not accept (rejects) tutmáj broth: the old woman frowns, and her anger is prolonged.
  • از غضب شربای سوزان بر سرش ** زن فرو ریزد شود کل مغفرش
  • In her rage the woman pours down the burning hot soup on its head: the crown of its head is made bald.
  • اشک از آن چشمش فرو ریزد ز سوز ** یاد آرد لطف شاه دل‌فروز
  • On account of the burning pain the tears pour down from its eye: it remembers the kindness of the heart-delighting king.
  • زان دو چشم نازنین با دلال ** که ز چهره‌ی شاد دارد صد کمال
  • (Tears pour) from those two charming coquettish eyes, which possess a hundred perfections (derived) from the countenance of the king.
  • چشم مازاغش شده پر زخم زاغ ** چشم نیک از چشم بد با درد و داغ 2640
  • Its eye that turned not aside (ma zágh) has become full of wounds inflicted by the crow (zágh): the good eye is (smitten) with pain and anguish by the evil eye.
  • چشم دریا بسطتی کز بسط او ** هر دو عالم می‌نماید تار مو
  • (It hath) an eye with the (vast) range of the sea, (an eye) from the (immense) range whereof both the worlds appear (no bigger than) a thread of hair.
  • گر هزاران چرخ در چشمش رود ** هم‌چو چشمه پیش قلزم گم شود
  • If thousands of spheres should enter into its eye, they would vanish like a fountain before the ocean.
  • چشم بگذشته ازین محسوسها ** یافته از غیب‌بینی بوسها
  • The eye that has passed beyond these objects of sense-perception and won kisses from vision of the Unseen—
  • خود نمی‌یابم یکی گوشی که من ** نکته‌ای گویم از آن چشم حسن
  • Verily, I do not find a single ear to which I should tell a mystery concerning that beauteous eye.
  • می‌چکید آن آب محمود جلیل ** می‌ربودی قطره‌اش را جبرئیل 2645
  • (If) the lauded and august water were to trickle (from that eye), Gabriel would (eagerly) carry off its drops,
  • تا بمالد در پر و منقال خویش ** گر دهد دستوریش آن خوب کیش
  • That he might rub them on his wings and beak, if that person of goodly practice give him permission.
  • باز گوید خشم کمپیر ار فروخت ** فر و نور و علم و صبرم را نسوخت
  • The falcon says, “If the anger of the old crone has blazed forth, (yet) it has not consumed my glory and splendour and self-denial and knowledge.
  • باز جانم باز صد صورت تند ** زخم بر ناقه نه بر صالح زند
  • The falcon, (which is) my spirit, will still weave a hundred forms: the blow falls on the she-camel, not on Sálih.
  • صالح از یک‌دم که آرد با شکوه ** صد چنان ناقه بزاید متن کوه
  • At a single awful breath that Sálih heaves, the back (womb) of the mountain will bring to birth a hundred such she-camels.”
  • دل همی گوید خموش و هوش دار ** ورنه درانید غیرت پود و تار 2650
  • (My) heart is saying, “Be silent and observe discretion; otherwise, the (Divine) jealousy will end the warp and woof (of thy existence).”
  • غیرتش را هست صد حلم نهان ** ورنه سوزیدی به یک دم صد جهان
  • His jealousy hath a hundred hidden clemencies; else in one moment it would consume a hundred worlds.
  • نخوت شاهی گرفتش جای پند ** تا دل خود را ز بند پند کند
  • Kingly pride seized the place of (left no room for) admonition in him (Pharaoh), so that he wrenched his heart away from the bonds of admonition,
  • که کنم بار رای هامان مشورت ** کوست پشت ملک و قطب مقدرت
  • Saying, “I will take counsel with Hámán, for he is the support of the kingdom and the pivot of power.”
  • مصطفی را رای‌زن صدیق رب ** رای‌زن بوجهل را شد بولهب
  • The Lord's veracious witness was the counsellor of Mustafá (Mohammed); Bú Lahab became the counsellor of Bú Jahl.
  • عرق جنسیت چنانش جذب کرد ** کان نصیحتها به پیشش گشت سرد 2655
  • The homogeneity rooted in his nature drew him (towards Hámán) so (strongly) that those admonishments (of Ásiya) became irksome to him.
  • جنس سوی جنس صد پره پرد ** بر خیالش بندها را بر درد
  • Congener flies to congener with a hundred wings and rives (all) bounds asunder in the fancy (desire) for him (who is congenial).
  • قصه‌ی آن زن کی طفل او بر سر ناودان غیژید و خطر افتادن بود و از علی کرم‌الله وجهه چاره جست
  • Story of the woman whose child crawled to the top of the water-spout and was in danger of falling; (whereupon) she besought help of ‘Alí Murtadá, may God ennoble his person.
  • یک زنی آمد به پیش مرتضی ** گفت شد بر ناودان طفلی مرا
  • A woman came to Murtadá (‘Alí) and said, “A child belonging to me has gone up on to the water-spout.