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  • من درون خشت دیدم این قضا ** که در آیینه عیان شد مر ترا
  • I beheld in the brick this destiny which to thee became visible (only) in the mirror.
  • عاقل اول بیند آخر را بدل ** اندر آخر بیند از دانش مقل
  • The intelligent man sees with his heart the end (final result) at the first (in the beginning); he that is lacking in knowledge sees it (only) at the end.”
  • باز زاری کرد کای نیکوخصال ** مر مرا در سر مزن در رو ممال
  • Once more he (the doomed man) made lamentation, saying, “O thou who hast goodly qualities, do not beat me on the head, do not rub into my face (the sin I have committed).
  • از من آن آمد که بودم ناسزا ** ناسزایم را تو ده حسن الجزا
  • That (sin) issued from me because I was unworthy: do thou give good recompense to my unworthy (action).”
  • گفت تیری جست از شست ای پسر ** نیست سنت کید آن واپس به سر 3375
  • He (Moses) said, “An arrow sped from the (archer's) thumb-stall, my lad: ’tis not the rule that it should come back to the source (the place whence it started);
  • لیک در خواهم ز نیکوداوری ** تا که ایمان آن زمان با خود بری
  • But I will crave of (God's) good dispensation that thou mayst take the Faith away with thee at that time (of departing from the world).
  • چونک ایمان برده باشی زنده‌ای ** چونک با ایمان روی پاینده‌ای
  • When thou hast taken the Faith away (with thee), thou art living: when thou goest with the Faith, thou art enduring (for ever).”
  • هم در آن دم حال بر خواجه بگشت ** تا دلش شوریده و آوردند طشت
  • At the same instant the Khwája became indisposed, so that he felt qualms, and they brought the basin.
  • شورش مرگست نه هیضه‌ی طعام ** قی چه سودت دارد ای بدبخت خام
  • ’Tis the qualms of death, not indigestion: how should vomiting avail thee, O foolish ill-fortuned man?
  • چار کس بردند تا سوی وثاق ** ساق می‌مالید او بر پشت ساق 3380
  • Four persons carried him to his house: he was rubbing (one) leg on the back of (the other) leg.
  • پند موسی نشنوی شوخی کنی ** خویشتن بر تیغ پولادی زنی
  • (If) you hearken not to the counsel of (a) Moses and show disrespect, you dash yourself against a sword of steel.
  • شرم ناید تیغ را از جان تو ** آن تست این ای برادر آن تو
  • The sword feels no shame (to restrain it) from (taking) your life: this is your own (fault), O brother, your own (fault).
  • دعاکردن موسی آن شخص را تا بایمان رود از دنیا
  • How Moses prayed for that person, that he might depart from the world (die) in the Faith.
  • موسی آمد در مناجات آن سحر ** کای خدا ایمان ازو مستان مبر
  • At dawn Moses began (his) orison, saying, “O God, do not take the Faith from him, do not carry it away!
  • پادشاهی کن برو بخشا که او ** سهو کرد و خیره‌رویی و غلو
  • Act in royal fashion, forgive him, for he has erred and behaved with impudence and transgressed exceedingly.
  • گفتمش این علم نه درخورد تست ** دفع پندارید گفتم را و سست 3385
  • I said to him, ‘This knowledge is not meet for thee,’ (but) he deemed my words a thwarting (of his desire) and vain.”
  • دست را بر اژدها آنکس زند ** که عصا را دستش اژدرها کند
  • That one lays hands on the dragon (and that one alone) whose hand makes the rod a dragon.
  • سر غیب آن را سزد آموختن ** که ز گفتن لب تواند دوختن
  • To learn the secret of the Unseen is fitting for him (alone) who can seal his lips (and refrain) from speech.
  • درخور دریا نشد جز مرغ آب ** فهم کن والله اعلم بالصواب
  • None but the water-fowl is proper for the sea. Understand (this)—and God best knoweth the right course.
  • او به دریا رفت و مرغ‌آبی نبود ** گشت غرقه دست گیرش ای ودود
  • “He (the obstinate man) went into the sea, and he was not a water-fowl: he sank. Take his hand (succour him), O Loving One!”
  • اجابت کردن حق تعالی دعای موسی را علیه السلام
  • How God most High answered favourably the prayer of Moses, on whom be peace.
  • گفت بخشیدم بدو ایمان نعم ** ور تو خواهی این زمان زنده‌ش کنم 3390
  • He (God) said, “Yes, I bestow the Faith upon him, and if thou wish I will bring him to life at this moment;
  • بلک جمله مردگان خاک را ** این زمان زنده کنم بهر ترا
  • Nay, I will at this moment bring to life all the dead in the earth for thy sake.”
  • گفت موسی این جهان مردنست ** آن جهان انگیز کانجا روشنست
  • Moses said, “This is the world of dying: raise (them to) that (other) world, for that place is resplendent.
  • این فناجا چون جهان بود نیست ** بازگشت عاریت بس سود نیست
  • Inasmuch as this abode of mortality is not the world of (real) Being, the return to a borrowed (impermanent) thing is not much gain.
  • رحمتی افشان بر ایشان هم کنون ** در نهان‌خانه‌ی لدینا محضرون
  • Strew a gift of mercy upon them even now in the secret chamber of assembled in Our presence.”
  • تابدانی که زیان جسم و مال ** سود جان باشد رهاند از وبال 3395
  • (I have related this story) that you may know that loss of the body and of wealth is gain to the spirit and delivers it from bane.