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3521-3530

  • Go to them that are your mates, (them) that are enamoured of your discourse and thirsting for it.
  • رو بر آنها که هم جفت تواند ** عاشقان و تشنه‏ی گفت تواند
  • One who keeps watch is superior to those who slumber: the (spiritual) fish have no need of one who keeps watch.
  • پاسبان بر خوابناکان بر فزود ** ماهیان را پاسبان حاجت نبود
  • Those who wear clothes look to the launderer, (but) the soul of the naked hath (Divine) illumination as its adornment.
  • جامه پوشان را نظر بر گازر است ** جان عریان را تجلی زیور است‏
  • Either withdraw (and turn) aside from the naked, or like them become free from body-garments.
  • یا ز عریانان به یک سو باز رو ** یا چو ایشان فارغ از تن جامه شو
  • And if you cannot become wholly naked, make your garments less, so that you may tread the middle path. 3525
  • ور نمی‏تانی که کل عریان شوی ** جامه کم کن تا ره اوسط روی‏
  • How the dervish excused himself to the Shaykh.
  • عذر گفتن فقیر به شیخ‏
  • Then the dervish told the Shaykh how the case stood, and coupled excuses with the discharge of that obligation.
  • پس فقیر آن شیخ را احوال گفت ** عذر را با آن غرامت کرد جفت‏
  • To the Shaykh's questions he gave answer good and right, like the answers of Khadir—
  • مر سؤال شیخ را داد او جواب ** چون جوابات خضر خوب و صواب‏
  • (Namely) those answers to the questions of Moses which Khadir, (inspired) by the all-knowing Lord, set forth to him,
  • آن جوابات سؤالات کلیم ** کش خضر بنمود از رب علیم‏
  • (So that) his difficulties became solved, and he (Khadir) gave to him (Moses) the key to every question (in a way) beyond telling.
  • گشت مشکلهاش حل و افزون زیاد ** از پی هر مشکلش مفتاح داد
  • The dervish also had (a spiritual) inheritance from Khadir; (hence) he bent his will to answering the Shaykh. 3530
  • از خضر درویش هم میراث داشت ** در جواب شیخ همت بر گماشت‏