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  • زن بر قاضی در آمد با زنان  ** مر زنی را کرد آن زن ترجمان  4555
  • The wife came before the cadi with (some other) women: she made a certain woman her interpreter,
  • تا بنشناسد ز گفتن قاضیش  ** یاد ناید از بلای ماضیش 
  • Lest the cadi should recognise her by her speech and remember his past misfortune.
  • هست فتنه غمره‌ی غماز زن  ** لیک آن صدتو شود ز آواز زن 
  • The coquettish glances of a woman are fascinating, but that (fascination) is increased a hundredfold by her voice.
  • چون نمی‌توانست آوازی فراشت  ** غمزه‌ی تنهای زن سودی نداشت 
  • Since she durst not raise (utter) a sound, the wife's ogling looks alone were of no avail.
  • گفت قاضی رو تو خصمت را بیار  ** تا دهم کار ترا با او قرار 
  • “Go,” said the cadi, “and fetch the defendant, that I may settle thy quarrel with him.”
  • جوحی آمد قاضیش نشناخت زود  ** کو به وقت لقیه در صندوق بود  4560
  • (When) Júhí arrived, the cadi did not recognise him at once, for at (their first) meeting he was in the chest.
  • زو شنیده بود آواز از برون  ** در شری و بیع و در نقص و فزون 
  • He had (only) heard his voice outside, during the buying and selling and chaffering.
  • گفت نفقه‌ی زن چرا ندهی تمام  ** گفت از جان شرع را هستم غلام 
  • He said (to Júhí), “Why won't you give your wife all the money she needs for expenses?” He replied, “I am devoted with (heart and) soul to the religious law,
  • لیک اگر میرم ندارم من کفن  ** مفلس این لعبم و شش پنج زن 
  • But if I die I do not possess (enough to pay for) the shroud: I am bankrupt in this game, I have gambled everything away.”
  • زین سخن قاضی مگر بشناختش  ** یاد آورد آن دغل وان باختش 
  • From (hearing) these words the cadi, as it happened, recognised him and called to mind his roguery and the trick he had played.
  • گفت آن شش پنج با من باختی  ** پار اندر شش درم انداختی  4565
  • “You played that game with me,” he said: “last year you put me out of action.
  • نوبت من رفت امسال آن قمار  ** با دگر کس باز دست از من بدار 
  • My turn is past: this year try that gamble on some one else and keep your hands off me!”
  • از شش و از پنج عارف گشت فرد  ** محترز گشتست زین شش پنج نرد 
  • The knower of God has been isolated from the six (directions) and the five (senses): (necessarily, therefore), he has become on his guard against the sixes and fives of the backgammon (played by the World and the Devil).
  • رست او از پنج حس و شش جهت  ** از ورای آن همه کرد آگهت 
  • He has escaped from the five senses and the six directions: he has made you acquainted with (what lies) beyond all that.
  • شد اشاراتش اشارات ازل  ** جاوز الاوهام طرا و اعتزل 
  • His intimations are the intimations of Eternity: he has transcended all conceptions and withdrawn himself apart.
  • زین چه شش گوشه گر نبود برون  ** چون بر آرد یوسفی را از درون  4570
  • Unless he is outside of this hexagonal well, how should he bring up a Joseph from the inside (of it)?
  • واردی بالای چرخ بی ستن  ** جسم او چون دلو در چه چاره کن 
  • He is one who goes to draw water above the unpillared firmament, (while) his body, like a bucket, is (low down) in the well, helping (to rescue the fallen).
  • یوسفان چنگال در دلوش زده  ** رسته از چاه و شه مصری شده 
  • The Josephs cling to his bucket, escape from the well, and become kings of Egypt.
  • دلوهای دیگر از چه آب‌جو  ** دلو او فارغ ز آب اصحاب‌جو 
  • The other buckets seek water from the well: his bucket has no concern with the water, it seeks (only) friends (in trouble).
  • دلوها غواص آب از بهر قوت  ** دلو او قوت و حیات جان حوت 
  • The (other) buckets plunge into the water for food: his bucket is the food and life of the soul of the fish.
  • دلوها وابسته‌ی چرخ بلند  ** دلو او در اصبعین زورمند  4575
  • The (other) buckets are attached to the lofty wheel (of Fortune): his bucket is (held) in two Almighty fingers.
  • دلو چه و حبل چه و چرخ چی  ** این مثال بس رکیکست ای اچی 
  • What bucket and what cord and what wheel? This is a very weak comparison, O pasha.
  • از کجا آرم مثالی بی‌شکست  ** کفو آن نه آید و نه آمدست 
  • (But) whence shall I get a comparison that is without frailty? One to match him (the knower of God) will not come, and never has come, (to hand).
  • صد هزاران مرد پنهان در یکی  ** صد کمان و تیر درج ناوکی 
  • (He is) a hundred thousand men concealed in a single man, a hundred bows and arrows enclosed in a single blowpipe;
  • ما رمیت اذ رمیتی فتنه‌ای  ** صد هزاران خرمن اندر حفنه‌ای 
  • A (type of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, a temptation (for the ignorant), a hundred thousand stacks (of grain) in a handful.
  • آفتابی در یکی ذره نهان  ** ناگهان آن ذره بگشاید دهان  4580
  • (He is) a sun hidden in a mote: suddenly that mote opens its mouth (and reveals the sun).
  • ذره ذره گردد افلاک و زمین  ** پیش آن خورشید چون جست از کمین 
  • The heavens and the earth crumble to atoms before that Sun when he springs forth from ambush.
  • این چنین جانی چه درخورد تنست  ** هین بشو ای تن ازین جان هر دو دست 
  • How is a spirit like this meet for (confinement in) the body? Hark, O body, wash thy hands of this spirit!
  • ای تن گشته وثاق جان بسست  ** چند تاند بحر درمشکی نشست 
  • O body that hast become the spirit's dwelling-place, ’tis enough: how long can the Sea abide in a water-skin?
  • ای هزاران جبرئیل اندر بشر  ** ای مسیحان نهان در جوف خر 
  • O thou who art a thousand Gabriels in (the form of) man, O thou who art (many) Messiahs inside the ass (of Jesus),
  • ای هزاران کعبه پنهان در کنیس  ** ای غلط‌انداز عفریت و بلیس  4585
  • O thou who art a thousand Ka‘bas concealed in a church, O thou who causest ‘ifrít and devil to fall into error,
  • سجده‌گاه لامکانی در مکان  ** مر بلیسان را ز تو ویران دکان 
  • Thou art the spaceless Object of worship in space: the devils have their shop destroyed by thee,
  • که چرا من خدمت این طین کنم  ** صورتی را نم لقب چون دین کنم 
  • (For they say), “How should I pay homage to this clay? How should I bestow on a (mere) form a title signifying (my) obedience (adoration)?”
  • نیست صورت چشم را نیکو به مال  ** تا ببینی شعشعه‌ی نور جلال 
  • He is not the form (in which he appears): rub thine eye well, that thou mayst behold (in him) the radiance of the light of (Divine) glory!
  • باز آمدن به شرح قصه‌ی شاه‌زاده و ملازمت او در حضرت شاه 
  • Resuming the explanation of the Story of the (eldest) prince and his constant attendance at the court of the King.
  • شاه‌زاده پیش شه حیران این  ** هفت گردون دیده در یک مشت طین 
  • The prince in the presence of the King was bewildered by this (mystery): he beheld the Seven Heavens in a handful of clay.
  • هیچ ممکن نه ببحثی لب گشود  ** لیک جان با جان دمی خامش نبود  4590
  • Nowise was it possible (for him) to open his lips in discussion, but never for a moment did soul cease to converse with soul.
  • آمده در خاطرش کین بس خفیست  ** این همه معنیست پس صورت ز چیست 
  • It came into his mind that ’twas exceedingly mysterious— “all this is reality: whence, then, comes the form (appearance)?”
  • صورتی از صورتت بیزار کن  ** خفته‌ای هر خفته را بیدار کن 
  • (’Tis) a form that frees thee from (the illusion of) form, a sleeper that awakens every one who is asleep (to the Truth).
  • آن کلامت می‌رهاند از کلام  ** وان سقامت می‌جهاند از سقام 
  • The words (spoken by him) deliver (thee) from words (of idle disputation), and the sickness (of love inspired by him) lets thee escape from the sickness (of sensuality).
  • پس سقام عشق جان صحتست  ** رنجهااش حسرت هر راحتست 
  • Therefore the sickness of love is the (very) soul of health: its pains are the envy of every pleasure.
  • ای تن اکنون دست خود زین جان بشو  ** ور نمی‌شویی جز این جانی بجو  4595
  • O body, now wash thy hands of this (animal) soul, or if thou wilt not wash (thy hands of it), seek another soul than this!
  • حاصل آن شه نیک او را می‌نواخت  ** او از آن خورشید چون مه می‌گداخت 
  • In short, the King cherished him (the prince) fondly, and in (the beams of) that Sun he was melting away like the moon.
  • آن گداز عاشقان باشد نمو  ** هم‌چو مه اندر گدازش تازه‌رو 
  • The melting (wasting) away of lovers is (the cause of their spiritual) growth: like the moon, he (the lover) hath a fresh (shining) face whilst he is melting away.
  • جمله رنجوران دوا دارند امید  ** نالد این رنجور کم افزون کنید 
  • All the sick hope to be cured, but this sick one sobs, crying, “Increase my sickness!
  • خوش‌تر از این سم ندیدم شربتی  ** زین مرض خوش‌تر نباشد صحتی 
  • I have found no drink sweeter than this poison: no state of health can be sweeter than this disease.
  • زین گنه بهتر نباشد طاعتی  ** سالها نسبت بدین دم ساعتی  4600
  • No act of piety can be better than this sin: years in comparison with this moment are (but) an hour.”
  • مدتی بد پیش این شه زین نسق  ** دل کباب و جان نهاده بر طبق 
  • In this fashion he remained with this King for a long while, his heart (roasted like) kabáb and his soul laid on the tray (of self-devotion).
  • گفت شه از هر کسی یک سر برید  ** من ز شه هر لحظه قربانم جدید 
  • He said, “The King beheads every one once, (but) I am sacrificed anew by the King at every instant.
  • من فقیرم از زر از سر محتشم  ** صد هزاران سر خلف دارد سرم 
  • I am poor in gold, but rich in heads (lives): my head (life) hath a hundred heads to take its place.
  • با دو پا در عشق نتوان تاختن  ** با یکی سر عشق نتوان باختن 
  • No one can run in (the path of) Love with two feet: no one can play (the game of) Love with one head;