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880-889

  • Maybe, he sees in me faults I do not see in myself, O King.” 880
  • باشد او در من ببیند عیبها ** من نبینم در وجود خود شها
  • Any one saw his own faults before (seeing those of others) —how should he be unconcerned with correcting himself?
  • هر کسی گر عیب خود دیدی ز پیش ** کی بدی فارغ خود از اصلاح خویش‏
  • These people (of the world) take no heed of themselves, O father: consequently they blame one another.
  • غافلند این خلق از خود ای پدر ** لاجرم گویند عیب همدگر
  • O idolater (dualist), (if) I do not behold my own face (reality), I behold thy face and thou beholdest mine.
  • من نبینم روی خود را ای شمن ** من ببینم روی تو تو روی من‏
  • He that beholds his own face (reality)—his light is greater than the light of the creatures (of God).
  • آن کسی که او ببیند روی خویش ** نور او از نور خلقان است بیش‏
  • Though he die, his sight is everlasting, because his sight is the sight of the Creator. 885
  • گر بمیرد دید او باقی بود ** ز انکه دیدش دید خلاقی بود
  • That light by which he sensibly beholds his own face (reality) before him, is not the light of sense.
  • نور حسی نبود آن نوری که او ** روی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو
  • The King said, “Now tell his (your fellow-servant's) faults, just as he spoke of yours,
  • گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگو ** آن چنان که گفت او از عیب تو
  • That I may know whether you are solicitous for me and a (good) house-steward of my property and business.”
  • تا بدانم که تو غم خوار منی ** کدخدای ملکت و کار منی‏
  • He replied, “O King, I will tell his faults, though he is to me a pleasing fellow-servant.
  • گفت ای شه من بگویم عیبهاش ** گر چه هست او مر مرا خوش خواجه‏تاش‏