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  • گفت یا رب تا به صد سال و فزون ** این چنینم ده بریز از من تو خون
  • “O Lord,” cried she, “give me such-like (afflictions) for a hundred years and more! Do Thou shed my blood!”
  • اندر آن باغ او چو آمد پیش پیش ** دید در وی جمله فرزندان خویش
  • When she advanced into that garden, she saw there all her children.
  • گفت از من کم شد از تو گم نشد ** بی دو چشم غیب کس مردم نشد 3415
  • She said, “They were lost to me, (but) they were not lost to Thee.” Without (possessing) the two eyes of the Unseen, no one becomes the Man (pupil of the eye).
  • تو نکردی فصد و از بینی دوید ** خون افزون تا ز تب جانت رهید
  • You did not let blood (by cupping), and (therefore) the superfluous blood ran from your nose, to the end that your life might be saved from fever.
  • مغز هر میوه بهست از پوستش ** پوست دان تن را و مغز آن دوستش
  • The core of every fruit is better than its rind: deem the body to be the rind, and its friend (the spirit) to be the core.
  • مغز نغزی دارد آخر آدمی ** یکدمی آن را طلب گر زان دمی
  • After all, Man has a goodly core: seek it for one moment, if you are of (if you belong to those inspired by) that (Divine) breath.
  • در آمدن حمزه رضی الله عنه در جنگ بی زره
  • How Hamza, may God be well-pleased with him, came to battle without a coat of mail.
  • اندر آخر حمزه چون در صف شدی ** بی زره سرمست در غزو آمدی
  • Whenever at the end (of his life) Hamza went into the ranks (on the battlefield), he would enter the fray (like one) intoxicated, without a coat of mail.
  • سینه باز و تن برهنه پیش پیش ** در فکندی در صف شمشیر خویش 3420
  • Advancing with open breast and naked body, he would throw himself into the sword-bearing ranks.
  • خلق پرسیدند کای عم رسول ** ای هزبر صف‌شکن شاه فحول
  • The people asked him, saying, “O uncle of the Prophet, O Lion that breakest the ranks (of the foemen), O prince of the champions,
  • نه تو لا تلقوا بایدیکم الی ** تهلکه خواندی ز پیغام خدا
  • Hast not thou read in the Message of God (theQur’án) ‘Do not cast yourselves with your own hands into destruction’?
  • پس چرا تو خویش را در تهلکه ** می در اندازی چنین در معرکه
  • Then why art thou casting thyself thus into destruction on the field of battle?
  • چون جوان بودی و زفت و سخت‌زه ** تو نمی‌رفتی سوی صف بی زره
  • When thou wert young and robust and strongly-knit, thou didst not go into the battle-line without a coat of mail.
  • چون شدی پیر و ضعیف و منحنی ** پرده‌های لا ابالی می‌زنی 3425
  • Now that thou hast become old and infirm and bent, thou art knocking at the curtains (doors) of recklessness,
  • لا ابالی‌وار با تیغ و سنان ** می‌نمایی دار و گیر و امتحان
  • And with sword and spear, like one who recks of naught, thou art grappling and struggling and making trial (of thyself).
  • تیغ حرمت می‌ندارد پیر را ** کی بود تمییز تیغ و تیر را
  • The sword hath no respect for the old: how should sword and arrow possess discernment?”
  • زین نسق غمخوارگان بی‌خبر ** پند می‌دادند او را از غیر
  • In this manner were the ignorant sympathisers giving him counsel zealously.
  • جواب حمزه مر خلق را
  • The reply of Hamza to the people.
  • گفت حمزه چونک بودم من جوان ** مرگ می‌دیدم وداع این جهان
  • Hamza said, “When I was young, I used to regard farewell to this world as death.
  • سوی مردن کس برغبت کی رود ** پیش اژدرها برهنه کی شود 3430
  • How should any one go to death eagerly? How should he come naked (unarmed) to meet the dragon?
  • لیک از نور محمد من کنون ** نیستم این شهر فانی را زبون
  • But now, through the Light of Mohammed, I am not subject to this city (the world) that is passing away.
  • از برون حس لشکرگاه شاه ** پر همی‌بینم ز نور حق سپاه
  • Beyond (the realm of) the senses, I behold the camp of the (Divine) King thronged with the army of the Light of God,
  • خیمه در خیمه طناب اندر طناب ** شکر آنک کرد بیدارم ز خواب
  • Tent on tent and tent-rope on tent-rope. Thanks be to Him who awakened me from slumber!”
  • آنک مردن پیش چشمش تهلکه‌ست ** امر لا تلقوا بگیرد او به دست
  • That one in whose eyes death is destruction—he takes hold of (clings to) the (Divine) command, “Do not cast (yourselves into destruction)”;
  • و آنک مردن پیش او شد فتح باب ** سارعوا آید مرورا در خطاب 3435
  • And that one to whom death is the opening of the gate—for him in the (Divine) Allocution (the Qur’án) there is (the command), “Vie ye with each other in hastening.”
  • الحذر ای مرگ‌بینان بارعوا ** العجل ای حشربینان سارعوا
  • Beware, O ye who regard death! Surpass one another (in dread of death)! Quick, O ye who regard the Resurrection! Vie ye with each other in hastening!
  • الصلا ای لطف‌بینان افرحوا ** البلا ای قهربینان اترحوا
  • Welcome, O ye who regard the (Divine) grace! Rejoice! Woe (to you), O ye who regard the (Divine) wrath! Be sorrowful!