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3512-3521

  • قبض و بسط چشم دل از ذوالجلال  ** دم به دم چون می‌کند سحر حلال 
  • Inasmuch as the closing and opening of the eye of the heart by the Almighty is continually working lawful magic,
  • زین سبب درخواست از حق مصطفی  ** زشت را هم زشت و حق را حق‌نما 
  • For this reason Mustafá (Mohammed) entreated God, saying, “Let the false appear as false and the true as true,
  • تا به آخر چون بگردانی ورق  ** از پشیمانی نه افتم در قلق 
  • So that at last, when Thou turnest the leaf, I may not (be stricken) by sorrow (and) fall into agitation.”
  • مکر که کرد آن عماد الملک فرد  ** مالک الملکش بدان ارشاد کرد  3515
  • (’Twas) the Lord of the Kingdom (that) guided the peerless ‘Imádu ’l- Mulk to the deception which he practised.
  • مکر حق سرچشمه‌ی این مکرهاست  ** قلب بین اصبعین کبریاست 
  • God's deception is the fountainhead of (all) these deceptions: the heart is between the two fingers of the (Divine) Majesty.
  • آنک سازد در دلت مکر و قیاس  ** آتشی داند زدن اندر پلاس 
  • He who creates deception and (false) analogy in your heart can (also) set the sackcloth (of deception) on fire.
  • رجوع کردن به قصه‌ی آن پای‌مرد و آن غریب وام‌دار و بازگشتن ایشان از سر گور خواجه و خواب دیدن پای‌مرد خواجه را الی آخره 
  • Return to the Story of the bailiff and the poor debtor: how they turned back from the Khwája's grave, and how the bailiff saw the Khwája in a dream, etc.
  • بی‌نهایت آمد این خوش سرگذشت  ** چون غریب از گور خواجه باز گشت 
  • This goodly episode is endless (too long to relate in full). When the poor stranger turned back from the Khwája's grave,
  • پای مردش سوی خانه‌ی خویش برد  ** مهر صد دینار را فا او سپرد 
  • The bailiff took him to his house and handed over to him the purse of a hundred dinars.
  • لوتش آورد و حکایت‌هاش گفت  ** کز امید اندر دلش صد گل شکفت  3520
  • He fetched viands for him and told him stories, so that from the (feeling of) hope (with which the bailiff inspired him) a hundred roses blossomed in his heart.
  • آنچ بعد العسر یسر او دیده بود  ** با غریب از قصه‌ی آن لب گشود 
  • He (the bailiff) opened his lips to relate the ease (prosperity) which he had experienced after difficulty (adversity).