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  • عاد را با دست حمال خذول  ** هم‌چو بره در کف مردی اکول  4675
  • For ‘Ád (and those like them) the wind is a treacherous carrier: (they are) as a lamb in the hands of a glutton,
  • هم‌چو فرزندش نهاده بر کنار  ** می‌برد تا بکشدش قصاب‌وار 
  • Which he lays in his lap as though it were his own child and carries away to slaughter like a butcher.
  • عاد را آن باد ز استکبار بود  ** یار خود پنداشتند اغیار بود 
  • That wind was (the punishment) for ‘Ád because of their pride: they indeed deemed it a friend, (but) it was (really) a stranger (foe).
  • چون بگردانید ناگه پوستین  ** خردشان بشکست آن بس القرین 
  • When of a sudden it turned its coat, that evil comrade shattered them piecemeal.
  • باد را بشکن که بس فتنه‌ست باد  ** پیش از آن کت بشکند او هم‌چو عاد 
  • Shatter (destroy) the wind—for the wind (of self-will) is a great temptation— ere it shatter thee, like ‘Ád.
  • هود دادی پند که ای پر کبر خیل  ** بر کند از دستتان این باد ذیل  4680
  • Húd admonished them, saying, “O prideful folk, this wind will tear out of your hands the skirt (to which ye are clinging).
  • لشکر حق است باد و از نفاق  ** چند روزی با شما کرد اعتناق 
  • The wind is God's army, and (only) in hypocrisy (deceit) has it embraced you for a few days.
  • او به سر با خالق خود راستست  ** چون اجل آید بر آرد باد دست 
  • Secretly it is loyal to its Creator: when the appointed term arrives, the wind will throw up its hands (and desert you).”
  • باد را اندر دهن بین ره‌گذر  ** هر نفس آیان روان در کر و فر 
  • See how the wind passes through the mouth, coming and going at every moment in advance and retreat.
  • حلق و دندان‌ها ازو آمن بود  ** حق چو فرماید به دندان در فتد 
  • The throat and teeth are in no danger from it; (but) when God commands, it attacks the teeth;
  • کوه گردد ذره‌ای باد و ثقیل  ** درد دندان داردش زار و علیل  4685
  • (And then) a (mere) atom of wind becomes (like) a mountain and heavy, and toothache keeps him (the sufferer) miserable and ill.
  • این همان بادست که امن می‌گذشت  ** بود جان کشت و گشت او مرگ کشت 
  • This is the same wind that used to pass by harmlessly: it was the life of the crops and it became the death of the crops.
  • دست آن کس که بکردت دست‌بوس  ** وقت خشم آن دست می‌گردد دبوس 
  • The hand of the person who (formerly) kissed thy hand—in the moment of anger that hand becomes a mace.
  • یا رب و یا رب بر آرد او ز جان  ** که ببر این باد را ای مستعان 
  • He (who has toothache) cries from his soul, “O Lord! O Lord! Take away this wind, O Thou whose aid is besought (by all)!
  • ای دهان غافل بدی زین باد رو  ** از بن دندان در استغفار شو 
  • O mouth, thou wert heedless of this wind: (now) go and betake thyself to asking pardon of God with utter abasement.”
  • چشم سختش اشک‌ها باران کند  ** منکران را درد الله‌خوان کند  4690
  • His hard eye (now) sheds tears like rain: (only) pain causes the unbelievers to call unto God.
  • چون دم مردان نپذرفتی ز مرد  ** وحی حق را هین پذیرا شو ز درد 
  • Since thou hast not received the breath (inspiration) of (holy) men from a (holy) man, hark, receive the Divine inspiration from pain.
  • باد گوید پیکم از شاه بشر  ** گه خبر خیر آورم گه شوم و شر 
  • The wind says, “I am a messenger from the King of mankind: now I bring good news, now calamitous and bad;
  • ز آنک مامورم امیر خود نیم  ** من چو تو غافل ز شاه خود کیم 
  • For I am subject to command, I am not in command of myself: when am I forgetful, like thee, of my King?
  • گر سلیمان‌وار بودی حال تو  ** چون سلیمان گشتمی حمال تو 
  • If thy (spiritual) state resembled that of Solomon, I should have carried thee as (I carried) Solomon.
  • عاریه‌ستم گشتمی ملک کفت  ** کردمی بر راز خود من واقفت  4695
  • I am (only) lent (to thee); I should have become a possession in thy hand: I should have made thee acquainted with my mystery.
  • لیک چون تو یاغیی من مستعار  ** می‌کنم خدمت ترا روزی سه چار 
  • But since thou art rebellious and I am (only) taken on loan to serve thee for three or four days,
  • پس چو عادت سرنگونی‌ها دهم  ** ز اسپه تو یاغیانه بر جهم 
  • Therefore I will lay thee low, like ‘Ád, and dash away in revolt from thy army,
  • تا به غیب ایمان تو محکم شود  ** آن زمان که ایمانت مایه‌ی غم شود 
  • In order that thy faith in the Unseen may become firm at the moment when thy faith is (only) a source of woe.”
  • آن زمان خود جملگان مؤمن شوند  ** آن زمان خود سرکشان بر سر دوند 
  • (For) at that moment, in sooth, all become believers: at that moment even the (most) headstrong run on their heads.
  • آن زمان زاری کنند و افتقار  ** هم‌چو دزد و راه‌زن در زیر دار  4700
  • At that moment they cry piteously and make humble supplication, like robbers and brigands under the gibbet.
  • لیک گر در غیب گردی مستوی  ** مالک دارین و شحنه‌ی خود توی 
  • But if you become upright in (your faith in) the Unseen, you are owner of the two worlds and a magistrate (exercising sovereign authority) over yourself.
  • شحنگی و پادشاهی مقیم  ** نه دو روزه و مستعارست و سقیم 
  • The abiding (spiritual) magistracy and kingship is not (something) taken on loan for two days and ailing (perishable).
  • رستی از بیگار و کار خود کنی  ** هم تو شاه و هم تو طبل خود زنی 
  • (Possessing that) you are delivered from strife and can act for yourself: you are king and at the same time beating your own drum.
  • چون گلو تنگ آورد بر ما جهان  ** خاک خوردی کاشکی حلق و دهان 
  • When the World squeezes our throats tightly, would that our gullets and mouths had eaten (only) earth!
  • این دهان خود خاک‌خواری آمدست  ** لیک خاکی را که آن رنگین شدست  4705
  • This mouth, indeed, has (always) been an eater of earth; but an earth that has been coloured.
  • این کباب و این شراب و این شکر  ** خاک رنگینست و نقشین ای پسر 
  • This roast-meat and this wine and this sugar are (merely) coloured and painted earth, O son.
  • چونک خوردی و شد آن لحم و پوست  ** رنگ لحمش داد و این هم خاک کوست 
  • When you have eaten or drunk (them) and they have become flesh and skin, He gives them the colour of flesh, but they are still the earth of (His) street.
  • هم ز خاکی بخیه بر گل می‌زند  ** جمله را هم باز خاکی می‌کند 
  • ’Tis from a bit of earth that He stitches the (body of) clay, and then makes the whole (fabric) a bit of earth again.
  • هندو و قفچاق و رومی و حبش  ** جمله یک رنگ‌اند اندر گور خوش 
  • Hindús and Qifcháq (Turks) and Greeks and Abyssinians— all have quite the same colour in the grave.
  • تا بدانی کان همه رنگ و نگار  ** جمله روپوشست و مکر و مستعار  4710
  • So you may know that all those colours and pictures are entirely a mask and deceit and borrowed (ephemeral).
  • رنگ باقی صبغة الله است و بس  ** غیر آن بر بسته دان هم‌چون جرس 
  • The only lasting colour is the dye of Allah: know that all the rest are tied (stuck) on (superficially) like a bell.
  • رنگ صدق و رنگ تقوی و یقین  ** تا ابد باقی بود بر عابدین 
  • The colour of sincerity and the colour of piety and intuitive faith will endure in the (devout) worshippers for evermore;
  • رنگ شک و رنگ کفران و نفاق  ** تا ابد باقی بود بر جان عاق 
  • And the colour of doubt and the colour of ingratitude and hypocrisy will endure in the undutiful soul for evermore;
  • چون سیه‌رویی فرعون دغا  ** رنگ آن باقی و جسم او فنا 
  • Like wicked Pharaoh's blackness of face, the colour whereof is enduring, though his body passes away.
  • برق و فر روی خوب صادقین  ** تن فنا شد وان به جا تو یومن دین  4715
  • (And so with) the radiance and glory in the beauteous faces of the sincere (believers): their bodies pass away, but that remains till the Day of Judgement.
  • زشت آن زشتست و خوب آن خوب و بس  ** دایم آن ضحاک و این اندر عبس 
  • The only ugly one is that (eternally) ugly one; the only beautiful one is that (eternally) beautiful one: this one is always laughing and that one scowling.
  • خاک را رنگ و فن و سنگی دهد  ** طفل‌خویان را بر آن جنگی دهد 
  • He (God) gives to earth a certain colour and variety and value, and causes childish folk to wrangle over it.
  • از خمیری اشتر وشیری پزند  ** کودکان از حرص آن کف می‌گزند 
  • (When) a piece of dough is baked in the shape of a camel or lion, (these) children bite their fingers (excitedly) in their greed for it.
  • شیر و اشتر نان شود اندر دهان  ** در نگیرد این سخن با کودکان 
  • The lion or camel turns to bread in the mouth, but it is futile to tell this to children.
  • کودک اندر جهل و پندار و شکیست  ** شکر باری قوت او اندکیست  4720
  • The child is in a (state of) ignorance and fancy and doubt: at any rate, thank God, his strength is (but) little.
  • طفل را استیزه و صد آفتست  ** شکر این که بی‌فن و بی‌قوتست 
  • The child is quarrelsome and very mischievous: thank God for his lack of skill and strength.
  • وای ازین پیران طفل ناادیب  ** گشته از قوت بلای هر رقیب 
  • (But) alas for these childish undisciplined elders who in their strength have become an affliction to every guardian!
  • چون سلاح و جهل جمع آید به هم  ** گشت فرعونی جهان‌سوز از ستم 
  • When weapons and ignorance are brought together, he (such an one) becomes in his tyranny a world-consuming Pharaoh.
  • شکر کن ای مرد درویش از قصور  ** که ز فرعونی رهیدی وز کفور 
  • O poor man, thank God for thy deficiency (of means), for (thereby) thou art delivered from being a Pharaoh and ungrateful (for Divine blessings).