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2905-2914

  • Thou, O Purchaser, art dominant over (all) attractors: it would be fitting if Thou redeem the helpless.” 2905
  • غالبی بر جاذبان ای مشتری  ** شاید ار درماندگان را وا خری 
  • He turned his face to the King as a thirsty man to a cloud— he who on the Night of Power was the Full-moon's own.
  • رو به شه آورد چون تشنه به ابر  ** آنک بود اندر شب قدر آن بدر 
  • Since his tongue and his spirit were His (the King's), (he was not afraid, for) he who is His may converse with Him boldly.
  • چون لسان وجان او بود آن او  ** آن او با او بود گستاخ‌گو 
  • He said, “We have been bound (in chains) like the spirit in its prison of clay: Thou art the Sun (illuminator) of the spirit on the Day of Judgement.
  • گفت ما گشتیم چون جان بند طین  ** آفتاب جان توی در یوم دین 
  • O King whose course is concealed (from view), the time is come for Thee graciously to make a movement (sign) with Thy beard in clemency.
  • وقت آن شد ای شه مکتوم‌سیر  ** کز کرم ریشی بجنبانی به خیر 
  • Each one (of us) has displayed his specialty: all those talents have (only) increased (our) ill-fortune. 2910
  • هر یکی خاصیت خود را نمود  ** آن هنرها جمله بدبختی فزود 
  • Those talents have bound our necks, by those high attainments we are (thrown) headlong and (laid) low.
  • آن هنرها گردن ما را ببست  ** زان مناصب سرنگوساریم و پست 
  • (Our) talent is a cord of palm-fibre on our neck: there is no help (to be gained) from those accomplishments on the day of death.”
  • آن هنر فی جیدنا حبل مسد  ** روز مردن نیست زان فنها مدد 
  • (None of them avails) save only the specialty of that man endowed with goodly perceptions whose eye was recognising the Sultan in the (darkness of) night.
  • جز همان خاصیت آن خوش‌حواس  ** که به شب بد چشم او سلطان‌شناس 
  • All those talents were (as) ghouls (waylaying travellers) on the road, except (that of) the eye which was aware of the King.
  • آن هنرها جمله غول راه بود  ** غیر چشمی کو ز شه آگاه بود