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1523-1532

  • When you have become selfless, everything that you do (is a case of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, (and) you are safe.
  • چون شدی بی‌خود هر آنچ تو کنی  ** ما رمیت اذ رمیتی آمنی 
  • The responsibility lies on God, not on the trustee: ‘tis set forth plainly in (books of) jurisprudence.
  • آن ضمان بر حق بود نه بر امین  ** هست تفصیلش به فقه اندر مبین 
  • Every shop has a different (kind of) merchandise: the Mathnawi is the shop for (spiritual) poverty, O son. 1525
  • هر دکانی راست سودایی دگر  ** مثنوی دکان فقرست ای پسر 
  • In the shoemaker’s shop there is fine leather: if you see wood (there), it is (only) the mould for the shoe.
  • در دکان کفشگر چرمست خوب  ** قالب کفش است اگر بینی تو چوب 
  • The drapers have (in their shops) silk and dun-coloured cloth: if iron be (there), it is (only to serve) for a yard-measure.
  • پیش بزازان قز و ادکن بود  ** بهر گز باشد اگر آهن بود 
  • Our Mathnawi is the shop for Unity: anything that you see (there) except the One God) is (only) an idol.
  • مثنوی ما دکان وحدتست  ** غیر واحد هرچه بینی آن بتست 
  • Know that to praise an idol for the purpose of ensnaring the vulgar is just like (the Prophet’s reference to) “the most exalted Cranes.”
  • بت ستودن بهر دام عامه را  ** هم‌چنان دان کالغرانیق العلی 
  • He recited it those words) quickly in the Súra (entitled) Wa’l-Najm, but it was a temptation (of the Devil), it was not (really) part of the Súra. 1530
  • خواندش در سوره‌ی والنجم زود  ** لیک آن فتنه بد از سوره نبود 
  • Thereupon all the infidels prostrated themselves (in worship): ‘twas a mystery (of Divine Wisdom), too, that they knocked their heads upon the door.
  • جمله کفار آن زمان ساجد شدند  ** هم سری بود آنک سر بر در زدند 
  • After this there is a perplexing and abstruse argument stay with Solomon and do not stir up the demons!
  • بعد ازین حرفیست پیچاپیچ و دور  ** با سلیمان باش و دیوان را مشور