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  • در سخن آباد این دم راه شد ** گفت امکان نیست چون بیگاه شد
  • The way is now made (open for entering) into the realm of Discourse (Exposition); (but) ‘tis impossible to speak (on the subject), since there is no time (to do so at present).
  • پوستها گفتیم و مغز آمد دفین ** گر بمانیم این نماند همچنین
  • We have told the husks (externals), but the kernel (the inner meaning) is buried; if we remain (alive), this will not remain (concealed) as it is now.
  • رد کردن معشوقه عذر عاشق را و تلبیس او را در روی او مالیدن
  • How the beloved rejected the excuses of the lover and rubbed his duplicity into him.
  • در جوابش بر گشاد آن یار لب ** کز سوی ما روز سوی تست شب 320
  • The loved one opened her lips to answer him, saying, “On my side it is day, and on thy side it is night.
  • حیله‌های تیره اندر داوری ** پیش بینایان چرا می‌آوری
  • Why in contention dost thou bring forward dark evasions be fore those who see (the truth plainly)?
  • هر چه در دل داری از مکر و رموز ** پیش ما رسواست و پیدا هم‌چو روز
  • To us, all the deceit and dissimulations that thou hast in thy heart are manifest and clear as day.
  • گر بپوشیمش ز بنده‌پروری ** تو چرا بی‌رویی از حد می‌بری
  • If we, in kindness to our servant, cover it up, why dost thou carry shamelessness beyond the limit?
  • از پدر آموز که آدم در گناه ** خوش فرود آمد به سوی پایگاه
  • Learn from thy Father; for in (the hour of) sin Adam came down willingly to the vestibule
  • چون بدید آن عالم الاسرار را ** بر دو پا استاد استغفار را 325
  • When he beheld that Knower of secrets, he stood up on his feet to ask forgiveness.
  • بر سر خاکستر انده نشست ** از بهانه شاخ تا شاخی نجست
  • He seated himself on the ashes of contrition: he did not jump from one branch of idle pleading to another
  • ربنا انا ظلمنا گفت و بس ** چونک جانداران بدید از پیش و پس
  • He said only, ‘O Lord, verily we have done wrong,’ when he saw the (angelic) life-guards in front and behind.
  • دید جانداران پنهان هم‌چو جان ** دورباش هر یکی تا آسمان
  • He saw the life-guards who are invisible, as the spirit is—each one’s mace (reaching) to the sky—-
  • که هلا پیش سلیمان مور باش ** تا بنشکافد ترا این دورباش
  • Saying, ‘Hola! be (as) the ant before Solomon, lest this mace cleave thee asunder.
  • جز مقام راستی یک دم مه‌ایست ** هیچ لالا مرد را چون چشم نیست 330
  • Do not for one moment stand (anywhere) but in the place of truth: a man hath no guardian like the (seeing) eye.
  • کور اگر از پند پالوده شود ** هر دمی او باز آلوده شود
  • (Even) if the blind man be purified by admonition, he continually becomes polluted again.
  • آدما تو نیستی کور از نظر ** لیک اذا جاء القضا عمی البصر
  • O Adam, thou art not blind of vision, but when the Divine destiny comes, the sight becomes blind.’”
  • عمرها باید به نادر گاه‌گاه ** تا که بینا از قضا افتد به چاه
  • Lifetimes are needed—(so) rarely and occasionally (does it happen)—for the seeing man to fall by destiny into the pit.
  • کور را خود این قضا همراه اوست ** که مرورا اوفتادن طبع و خوست
  • As regards the blind man, this destiny in sooth is his companion on the way; for ‘tis his nature and disposition to fall.
  • در حدث افتد نداند بوی چیست ** از منست این بوی یا ز آلودگیست 335
  • He falls into the filth and does not know what the smell is; (he asks himself), “Is this smell from me or from (my) being polluted?”
  • ور کسی بر وی کند مشکی نثار ** هم ز خود داند نه از احسان یار
  • And likewise, if any one sprinkle some musk over him, he thinks it (comes) from himself and not from the kindness of his friend.
  • پس دو چشم روشن ای صاحب‌نظر ** مر ترا صد مادرست و صد پدر
  • Therefore to you, O man of vision, two clear eyes are (as) a hundred mothers and a hundred fathers;
  • خاصه چشم دل آن هفتاد توست ** وین دو چشم حس خوشه‌چین اوست
  • Especially the eye of the heart (the spiritual eye), which is seventy-fold and of which these two sensible eyes are (only) the gleaners.
  • ای دریغا ره‌زنان بنشسته‌اند ** صد گره زیر زبانم بسته‌اند
  • Oh, alas, the highwaymen are seated (and lying in wait for me): they have tied a hundred knots beneath my tongue.
  • پای‌بسته چون رود خوش راهوار ** بس گران بندیست این معذور دار 340
  • How should the smooth-paced horse move well, when his leg is tied? This is a very heavy chain: hold me excused!
  • این سخن اشکسته می‌آید دلا ** کین سخن درست غیرت آسیا
  • These words (of mine) are coming (forth) brokenly, O heart; for these words are pearls, and (the Divine) jealousy is the mill (which breaks them);
  • در اگر چه خرد و اشکسته شود ** توتیای دیده‌ی خسته شود
  • (But), though the pearls be broken into small fragments, they become tutty (collyrium) for the sore eye (of the spirit).
  • ای در از اشکست خود بر سر مزن ** کز شکستن روشنی خواهی شدن
  • O pearl, do not beat thy head (in grief) at thy being broken, for through being broken thou wilt become (radiant) light.
  • همچنین اشکسته بسته گفتنیست ** حق کند آخر درستش کو غنیست
  • It (the word) has to be uttered thus brokenly and in bandages: God, who is Self-sufficient, will make it whole at last.
  • گندم ار بشکست و از هم در سکست ** بر دکان آمد که نک نان درست 345
  • If wheat is broken and torn asunder (in the mill), it appears in the (baker’s) shop, saying, “Look! a perfect loaf!”
  • تو هم ای عاشق چو جرمت گشت فاش ** آب و روغن ترک کن اشکسته باش
  • “Thou too, O lover, since thy crime has become manifest, abandon water and oil (specious varnish) and be broken (contrite).
  • آنک فرزندان خاص آدم‌اند ** نفحه‌ی انا ظلمنا می‌دمند
  • Those who are the elect children of Adam sigh forth (the confession), ‘verily we have done wrong.’
  • حاجت خود عرضه کن حجت مگو ** هم‌چو ابلیس لعین سخت‌رو
  • Submit thy petition, do not argue like the accursed hard- faced (impudent) Iblis.
  • سخت‌رویی گر ورا شد عیب‌پوش ** در ستیز و سخت‌رویی رو بکوش
  • If impudence concealed his fault, go, exert thyself in (showing) obstinacy and impudence!
  • آن ابوجهل از پیمبر معجزی ** خواست هم‌چون کینه‌ور ترکی غزی 350
  • Abu Jahl, like a vindictive Ghuzz Turcoman, demanded a miracle from the Prophet;
  • لیک آن صدیق حق معجز نخواست ** گفت این رو خود نگوید جز که راست
  • But that Siddiq of God (Abu Bakr) did not crave a miracle: he said, ‘Verily, this face speaks naught but truth.’
  • کی رسد هم‌چون توی را کز منی ** امتحان هم‌چو من یاری کنی
  • How should it beseem one like thee, from egoism, to make trial of a beloved like me?”
  • گفتن آن جهود علی را کرم الله وجهه کی اگر اعتماد داری بر حافظی حق از سر این کوشک خود را در انداز و جواب گفتن امیرالمومنین او را
  • How the Jew said to ‘Alí, may God honour his person, "If thou hast confidence in God's protection, cast thyself down from the top of this kiosk"; and how the Prince of the Faithful answered him.
  • مرتضی را گفت روزی یک عنود ** کو ز تعظیم خدا آگه نبود
  • One day a contumacious man, who was ignorant of the reverence due to God, said to Murtazá (‘Alí),
  • بر سر بامی و قصری بس بلند ** حفظ حق را واقفی ای هوشمند
  • On the top of an exceedingly high terrace or pavilion, “Art thou conscious of God's protection, O intelligent man?”
  • گفت آری او حفیظست و غنی ** هستی ما را ز طفلی و منی 355
  • “Yes,” he replied; “He is the Protector and the Self-sufficient for (preserving) my existence from (the time of) infancy and conception.”
  • گفت خود را اندر افکن هین ز بام ** اعتمادی کن بحفظ حق تمام
  • He (the Jew) said, “Come, cast thyself down from the roof, put an entire confidence in the protection of God,
  • تا یقین گرددمرا ایقان تو ** و اعتقاد خوب با برهان تو
  • So that thy sure faith and thy goodly proven conviction may become evident to me.”
  • پس امیرش گفت خامش کن برو ** تا نگردد جانت زین جرات گرو
  • Then the Prince said to him, “Be silent, go, lest for this boldness thy soul be pawned (given over to perdition).”
  • کی رسد مر بنده را که با خدا ** آزمایش پیش آرد ز ابتلا
  • How is it right for a servant (of God) to venture on an experiment with God by making trial (of Him)?
  • بنده را کی زهره باشد کز فضول ** امتحان حق کند ای گیج گول 360
  • How should a servant (of God) have the stomach vaingloriously to put Him to the test, O mad fool?
  • آن خدا را می‌رسد کو امتحان ** پیش آرد هر دمی با بندگان
  • To God (alone) belongs that (right), who brings forward a test for His servants at every moment,
  • تا به ما ما را نماید آشکار ** که چه داریم از عقیده در سرار
  • In order that He may show us plainly to ourselves (and reveal) what beliefs we hold in secret.
  • هیچ آدم گفت حق را که ترا ** امتحان کردم درین جرم و خطا
  • Did Adam ever say to God, “I made trial of Thee in (committing) this sin and trespass,
  • تا ببینم غایت حلمت شها ** اه کرا باشد مجال این کرا
  • That I might see the utmost limit of Thy clemency, O King?” Ah, who would be capable of (seeing) this, who?
  • عقل تو از بس که آمد خیره‌سر ** هست عذرت از گناه تو بتر 365
  • Forasmuch as your understanding is confused, your excuse is worse than your crime.
  • آنک او افراشت سقف آسمان ** تو چه دانی کردن او را امتحان
  • How can you make trial of Him who raised aloft the vault of heaven?
  • ای ندانسته تو شر و خیر را ** امتحان خود را کن آنگه غیر را
  • O you that have not known good and evil, (first) make trial of yourself, and then of others.