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4106-4115

  • With gold in their money-bags, they are seated expectantly (in the hope) that the gain may come and that he who persists (in waiting) may begin to squander (his gold).
  • زر در انبانها نشسته منتظر ** تا که سود آید ببذل آید مصر
  • When he sees a piece of merchandise exceeding (his own) in profit, his fondness for his own goods becomes chilled;
  • چون ببیند کاله‌ای در ربح بیش ** سرد گردد عشقش از کالای خویش
  • (For hitherto) he has remained enamoured of those, because he perceived no profit and advantage superior to his own goods.
  • گرم زان ماندست با آن کو ندید ** کاله‌های خویش را ربح و مزید
  • Similarly, (in the case of) knowledge and accomplishments and trades: (a man is engrossed with them) since he has not seen (anything) superior to them in excellence.
  • همچنین علم و هنرها و حرف ** چون بدید افزون از آنها در شرف
  • Whilst nothing is better than life, life is precious; when a better appears, the name of life becomes a slippery (futile) thing. 4110
  • تا به از جان نیست جان باشد عزیز ** چون به آمد نام جان شد چیز لیز
  • The lifeless doll is as (dear as) life to the child until he has grown up to manhood.
  • لعبت مرده بود جان طفل را ** تا نگشت او در بزرگی طفل‌زا
  • This imagination and fancy are (like) the doll: so long as you are (spiritually) a child, you have need of them;
  • این تصور وین تخیل لعبتست ** تا تو طفلی پس بدانت حاجتست
  • (But) when the spirit has escaped from childishness, it is in union (with God): it is done with sense-perception and imagination and fancy.
  • چون ز طفلی رست جان شد در وصال ** فارغ از حس است و تصویر و خیال
  • There is no confidant (familiar with this mystery), that I should speak without insincerity (reserve). I will keep silence, and God best knoweth the (true) accord.
  • نیست محرم تا بگویم بی‌نفاق ** تن زدم والله اعلم بالوفاق
  • The goods (of this world) and the body are snow melting away to naught; (yet) God is their purchaser, for God hath purchased. 4115
  • مال و تن برف‌اند ریزان فنا ** حق خریدارش که الله اشتری