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2917-2926

  • I can side (only) with him who is predominant: I (must) fall in the direction to which the predominant one is pulling (me).
  • یار آن تانم بدن کو غالبست  ** آن طرف افتم که غالب جاذبست 
  • Since (according to thy assertion) God was desiring of me a firm belief (in Islam), what is the use of His desire when He does not succeed (in attaining His object)?
  • چون خدا می‌خواست از من صدق زفت  ** خواست او چه سود چون پیشش نرفت 
  • The carnal soul and the Devil have carried their will to success, while that act of (Divine) favour has been defeated and pulverised.
  • نفس و شیطان خواست خود را پیش برد  ** وآن عنایت قهر گشت و خرد و مرد 
  • (’Tis as if) thou hadst built a palace and pavilion and erected therein a hundred beautiful (ornamental) designs, 2920
  • تو یکی قصر و سرایی ساختی  ** اندرو صد نقش خوش افراختی 
  • And desired that that goodly place should be a mosque— and (then) some one else had come and made it a Christian monastery;
  • خواستی مسجد بود آن جای خیر  ** دیگری آمد مر آن را ساخت دیر 
  • Or (as if) thou hadst woven a piece of linen cloth, in order deftly to make it a coat for some one to wear,
  • یا تو بافیدی یکی کرباس تا  ** خوش بسازی بهر پوشیدن قبا 
  • And (when) thou wert desiring (it to be) a coat, a rival, from (motives of) hostility, made the linen stuff into a pair of trousers in spite of thee.
  • تو قبا می‌خواستی خصم از نبرد  ** رغم تو کرباس را شلوار کرد 
  • What resource has the linen, my dear friend, but to submit to the purpose of the one who is predominant?
  • چاره کرباس چه بود جان من ** جز زبون رای آن غالب شدن
  • (Since) he (the owner of the cloth) is reduced to submission, what is the crime of this linen? Who is he that is not dominated by the predominant? 2925
  • او زبون شد جرم این کرباس چیست  ** آنک او مغلوب غالب نیست کیست 
  • When some one has forced his way in against his (the householder's) will and planted a thornbush in his property and house,
  • چون کسی بی‌خواست او بر وی براند  ** خاربن در ملک و خانه‌ی او نشاند