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334-358

  • باز می‏مالید پر بر دست شاه ** بی‏زبان می‏گفت من کردم گناه‏
  • (Meanwhile) the falcon was rubbing its wings against the King's hand: without tongue it was saying, “I have sinned.”

  • پس کجا زارد کجا نالد لئیم ** گر تو نپذیری بجز نیک ای کریم‏ 335
  • Where then should the vile (sinner) plead piteously, where should he moan, if Thou wilt accept naught but good, O bountiful (King)?

  • لطف شه جان را جنایت جو کند ** ز آنکه شه هر زشت را نیکو کند
  • The King's grace makes the soul sin-seeking, because the King makes every foul thing fair.

  • رو مکن زشتی که نیکیهای ما ** زشت آمد پیش آن زیبای ما
  • Go, do not commit foulness, for (even) our fair deeds appear foul in the sight of our beauteous (Loved One).

  • خدمت خود را سزا پنداشتی ** تو لوای جرم از آن افراشتی‏
  • You deemed your service worthy: thereby you raised the banner of sin.

  • چون ترا ذکر و دعا دستور شد ** ز آن دعاکردن دلت مغرور شد
  • Forasmuch as praise and prayer were vouchsafed to you, through making that prayer your heart became vainglorious.

  • هم سخن دیدی تو خود را با خدا ** ای بسا کاو زین گمان افتد جدا 340
  • You regarded yourself as speaking (confidentially) with God. Oh, (there is) many a one that becomes separated (from God) by this opinion.

  • گر چه با تو شه نشیند بر زمین ** خویشتن بشناس و نیکوتر نشین‏
  • Although the King sit with you on the ground, know yourself and sit better (with more decorum and reverence).

  • باز گفت ای شه پشیمان می‏شوم ** توبه کردم نو مسلمان می‏شوم‏
  • The falcon said, “O King, I am penitent, I am converted, I am embracing Islam anew.

  • آن که تو مستش کنی و شیر گیر ** گر ز مستی کج رود عذرش پذیر
  • He whom Thou makest drunken and pot-valiant—if from drunkenness he walk crookedly, do Thou accept his excuse.

  • گر چه ناخن رفت چون باشی مرا ** بر کنم من پرچم خورشید را
  • Though my talons are gone, when thou art mine I tear off the forelock of the sun;

  • ور چه پرم رفت چون بنوازیم ** چرخ بازی گم کند در بازیم‏ 345
  • And though my wings are gone, when Thou art kind to me the heavenly sphere loses its play (ceases to revolve).

  • گر کمر بخشیم که را بر کنم ** گر دهی کلکی علمها بشکنم‏
  • If Thou bestow a belt on me, I will uproot the mountain; if Thou give me a pen, I will break the banners.

  • آخر از پشه نه کم باشد تنم ** ملک نمرودی به پر بر هم زنم‏
  • After all, my body is not inferior to (that of) a gnat: with my wings I confound the kingdom of Nimrod.

  • در ضعیفی تو مرا بابیل گیر ** هر یکی خصم مرا چون پیل گیر
  • Suppose me to be (as) the flocks of (small) birds in weakness, suppose every one of my enemies to be as the elephant,

  • قدر فندق افکنم بندق حریق ** بندقم در فعل صد چون منجنیق‏
  • (Yet if) I cast a baked (clay) pellet the size of a hazelnut, my pellet in its effect is like (equal to) a hundred mangonels (ballistas).”

  • موسی آمد در وغا با یک عصاش ** زد بر آن فرعون و بر شمشیرهاش‏ 350
  • Moses came to battle with his one rod and made an onset against Pharaoh and (all) his swords.

  • هر رسولی یک تنه کان در زده ست ** بر همه آفاق تنها بر زده ست‏
  • Every Prophet who by himself has knocked at that door (and besought God to help him) has alone (single-handed) fought (victoriously) against the whole world.

  • نوح چون شمشیر در خواهید ازو ** موج طوفان گشت از او شمشیر خو
  • When Noah begged of Him (God) a sword, through Him (at His command) the waves of the Flood became of sword-like temper.

  • احمدا خود کیست اسپاه زمین ** ماه بین بر چرخ و بشکافش جبین‏
  • O Ahmad (Mohammed), who (what) indeed are the armies of the earth? Behold the moon in heaven (and) split her brow,

  • تا بداند سعد و نحس بی‏خبر ** دور تست این دور نه دور قمر
  • In order that the ignorant astronomer may know that this cycle is thy cycle, not the cycle of the moon.

  • دور تست ایرا که موسای کلیم ** آرزو می‏برد زین دورت مقیم‏ 355
  • It is thy cycle, because (even) Moses, he who spoke (with God), was constantly yearning after this cycle of thine.

  • چون که موسی رونق دور تو دید ** کاندر او صبح تجلی می‏دمید
  • When Moses beheld the splendour of thy cycle, in which the dawn of Revelation was arising,

  • گفت یا رب آن چه دور رحمت است ** بر گذشت از رحمت آن جا رویت است‏
  • He said, “O Lord, what cycle of mercy is that? It is beyond mercy: there (in that cycle) is vision (of Thee).

  • غوطه ده موسای خود را در بحار ** از میان دوره‏ی احمد بر آر
  • Plunge Thy Moses in the seas (of Time) and bring him up (to the surface) from the midst of the cycle of Ahmad (Mohammed).”