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2807-2816

  • Nay, from Thine eye come (wondrous) alchemies (transmutations): they turn the evil eye into the good eye.
  • بل ز چشمت کیمیاها می‌رسد  ** چشم بد را چشم نیکو می‌کند 
  • The King's eye hath smitten the eye of the falcon-heart, and its falcon-eye hath become mightily aspiring,
  • چشم شه بر چشم باز دل زدست  ** چشم بازش سخت با همت شدست 
  • So that, because of the great aspiration which it has gained from the (King's) look, the royal falcon will (now) catch (hunt) nothing but the fierce lion.
  • تا ز بس همت که یابید از نظر  ** می‌نگیرد باز شه جز شیر نر 
  • What (of the) lion? The spiritual royal falcon is Thy quarry and at the same time Thou art its prey. 2810
  • شیر چه کان شاه‌باز معنوی  ** هم شکار تست و هم صیدش توی 
  • The call uttered by the falcon-soul in the meadow of devotion is cries of “I love not them that set.”
  • شد صفیر باز جان در مرج دین  ** نعره‌های لا احب الافلین 
  • From Thy infinite bounty there came an (inward) eye to the falcon-soul that was flying for Thy sake.
  • باز دل را که پی تو می‌پرید  ** از عطای بی‌حدت چشمی رسید 
  • From Thee its nose gained (the inward sense of) smell, and its ear the (inward) hearing: to each sense was allotted a portion (of the spiritual sense that was) distributed (amongst them all).
  • یافت بینی بوی و گوش از تو سماع  ** هر حسی را قسمتی آمد مشاع 
  • Since Thou givest to each sense the means of access to the Unseen, that (spiritual) sense is not subject to the frailty of death and hoary eld.
  • هر حسی را چون دهی ره سوی غیب  ** نبود آن حس را فتور مرگ و شیب 
  • Thou art the Lord of the kingdom: Thou givest to the (spiritual) sense something (peculiar to itself), so that that sense exercises sovereignty over (all) the senses. 2815
  • مالک الملکی به حس چیزی دهی  ** تا که بر حس‌ها کند آن حس شهی 
  • Story of the night-thieves with whom Sultan Mahmúd fell in during the night (and joined them), saying, “I am one of you”; and how he became acquainted with their affairs, etc.
  • حکایت شب دزدان کی سلطان محمود شب در میان ایشان افتاد کی من یکی‌ام از شما و بر احوال ایشان مطلع شدن الی آخره 
  • While King Mahmúd was roaming about alone at night he encountered a band of thieves.
  • شب چو شه محمود برمی‌گشت فرد  ** با گروهی قوم دزدان باز خورد