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1986-2010

  • فکر تو نقش است و فکر اوست جان ** نقد تو قلب است و نقد اوست کان‏
  • Your thought is the outward form, and his thought is the soul: your coin is false, and his coin is (pure as) the mine.
  • او تویی خود را بجو در اوی او ** کو و کو گو فاخته شو سوی او
  • You are (really) he: seek yourself in his “he” (personality). Say coo, coo: become a dove (flying) towards him.
  • ور نخواهی خدمت ابنای جنس ** در دهان اژدهایی همچو خرس‏
  • And if you are unwilling to serve the (holy) men of (human) kind, you are in the dragon's mouth, like the bear.
  • بو که استادی رهاند مر ترا ** و ز خطر بیرون کشاند مر ترا
  • It may be that a Master will deliver you and pull you out of danger.
  • زاریی می‏کن چو زورت نیست هین ** چون که کوری سر مکش از راه بین‏ 1990
  • As you have no strength, keep making a lamentation; since you are blind, take care, do not turn your head away from him that sees the road.
  • تو کم از خرسی نمی‏نالی ز درد ** خرس رست از درد چون فریاد کرد
  • You are less (worse) than the bear, (for) you are not wailing at the pain. The bear was freed from pain when it made an outcry.
  • ای خدا این سنگ دل را موم کن ** ناله‏ی ما را خوش و مرحوم کن‏
  • O God, make this stony heart (soft as) wax; make our wailing sweet (to Thee) and an object of (Thy) mercy!
  • گفتن نابینای سائل که دو کوری دارم‏
  • How a sightless beggar said, “I have two blindnesses.”
  • بود کوری کاو همی‏گفت الامان ** من دو کوری دارم ای اهل زمان‏
  • There was a blind man who used to say, “Pity! I have two blindnesses, O people of the time.
  • پس دو باره رحمتم آرید هان ** چون دو کوری دارم و من در میان‏
  • Therefore, hark ye, show unto me twice as much compassion, since I have two blindnesses, and I (live) between (them.)”
  • گفت یک کوریت می‏بینیم ما ** آن دگر کوری چه باشد وانما 1995
  • (Somebody) said, “We see one blindness of yours: what may the other blindness be? Explain.”
  • گفت زشت آوازم و ناخوش نوا ** زشت آوازی و کوری شد دوتا
  • He answered, “I have an ugly voice and unpleasing tones: ugliness of voice and blindness are double (blindness).
  • بانگ زشتم مایه‏ی غم می‏شود ** مهر خلق از بانگ من کم می‏شود
  • My ugly cry becomes the source of annoyance: the people's love is lessened by my cry.
  • زشت آوازم به هر جا که رود ** مایه‏ی خشم و غم و کین می‏شود
  • Whithersoever my ugly voice goes, it becomes the source of anger and annoyance and hatred.
  • بر دو کوری رحم را دوتا کنید ** این چنین ناگنج را گنجا کنید
  • Double your compassion for (these) two blindnesses: make room (in your hearts) for one who gets so little room.”
  • زشتی آواز کم شد زین گله ** خلق شد بر وی به رحمت یک دله‏ 2000
  • The ugliness of (his) voice was diminished by this plaint: the people became of one mind in (showing) compassion for him.
  • کرد نیکو چون بگفت او راز را ** لطف آواز دلش آواز را
  • When he had told the secret (and explained his meaning), his voice was made beautiful by the graciousness of the voice of his heart;
  • و انکه آواز دلش هم بد بود ** آن سه کوری دوری سرمد بود
  • But that one whose heart's voice also is bad—(for him) those three blindnesses are banishment everlasting (from the favour of God);
  • لیک وهابان که بی‏علت دهند ** بو که دستی بر سر زشتش نهند
  • Yet it may be that the bounteous (saints), who give without cause, will lay a hand (of blessing) upon his ugly head.
  • چون که آوازش خوش و مظلوم شد ** زو دل سنگین دلان چون موم شد
  • Since his (the blind beggar's) voice became sweet and pitiable, the hearts of the stony-hearted were made (soft) as wax thereby.
  • ناله‏ی کافر چو زشت است و شهیق ** ز آن نمی‏گردد اجابت را رفیق‏ 2005
  • Inasmuch as the infidel's lament is ugly and (like) braying, for that (reason) it meets with no (favourable) response.
  • اخسؤا بر زشت آواز آمده ست ** کاو ز خون خلق چون سگ بود مست‏
  • “Be silent” has come down (has been revealed in the Qur’án) against the ugly-voiced (infidel), for he was drunken with the people's blood, like a dog.
  • چون که ناله‏ی خرس رحمت کش بود ** ناله‏ات نبود چنین ناخوش بود
  • Inasmuch as the lament of the bear attracts compassion, (while) your lament is not like this, (but) is unpleasing,
  • دان که با یوسف تو گرگی کرده‏ای ** یا ز خون بی‏گناهی خورده‏ای‏
  • Know that you have behaved with wolfishness to (a) Joseph, or have drunk of the blood of an innocent.
  • توبه کن و ز خورده استفراغ کن ** ور جراحت کهنه شد رو داغ کن‏
  • Repent, and empty yourself of what you have drunk; and if your wound is old (and unhealed), go, cauterise (it).
  • تتمه‏ی حکایت خرس و آن ابله که بر وفای او اعتماد کرده بود
  • Continuation of the story of the bear and of the fool who had put trust in its good faith.
  • خرس هم از اژدها چون وارهید ** و آن کرم ز آن مرد مردانه بدید 2010
  • The bear, too, when it was delivered from the dragon and received such kindness from that brave man—