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519-543

  • On account of their destitution that Súfí flock, all of them, adopted (the expedient of) selling the ass,
  • از سر تقصیر آن صوفی رمه ** خر فروشی در گرفتند آن همه‏
  • Saying, “(In case) of necessity a carcase is lawful (food); (there is) many a vicious act that necessity made a virtuous one.” 520
  • کز ضرورت هست مرداری مباح ** بس فسادی کز ضرورت شد صلاح‏
  • They instantly sold the little ass; they fetched dainty viands and lit candles.
  • هم در آن دم آن خرک بفروختند ** لوت آوردند و شمع افروختند
  • Jubilation arose in the monastery: (they cried), “To-night there are dainties and music and dancing and voracity.
  • ولوله افتاد اندر خانقه ** کامشبان لوت و سماع است و شره‏
  • How much (more) of this (carrying the) wallet and this beggary? How much (more) of this patience and of this three-day fasting?
  • چند از این صبر و از این سه روزه چند ** چند از این زنبیل و این دریوزه چند
  • We also are of (God's) creatures, we have soul. Good luck (is ours) to-night: we have the guest (to entertain).”
  • ما هم از خلقیم و جان داریم ما ** دولت امشب میهمان داریم ما
  • Thereby they were sowing the seed of falsehood, for they deemed soul that which is not soul. 525
  • تخم باطل را از آن می‏کاشتند ** کان که آن جان نیست جان پنداشتند
  • And the traveller, too, was tired by the long journey and (gladly) saw that favour and fondness (with which they regarded him).
  • و آن مسافر نیز از راه دراز ** خسته بود و دید آن اقبال و ناز
  • The Súfís, one by one, caressed him: they were playing the game of (bestowing) pleasant attentions (on him).
  • صوفیانش یک به یک بنواختند ** نرد خدمتهای خوش می‏باختند
  • When he saw their affection towards him, he said, “If I don't make merry to-night, when (shall I do so)?”
  • گفت چون می‏دید میلانشان به وی ** گر طرب امشب نخواهم کرد کی‏
  • They ate the viands and began the samá‘ (musical dance); the monastery was filled with smoke and dust up to the roof—
  • لوت خوردند و سماع آغاز کرد ** خانقه تا سقف شد پر دود و گرد
  • The smoke of the kitchen, the dust of (raised by) beating the feet (dancing), the tumult (caused) by longing and ecstasy of spirit. 530
  • دود مطبخ گرد آن پا کوفتن ** ز اشتیاق و وجد جان آشوفتن‏
  • Now, waving their hands, they would beat (the ground with) their feet; now, in (religious) prostration, they would sweep the dais (with their foreheads).
  • گاه دست افشان قدم می‏کوفتند ** گه به سجده صفه را می‏روفتند
  • (Only) after long (waiting) does the Súfí gain his desire (the satisfaction of his appetite) from Fortune: for that reason the Súfí is a great eater;
  • دیر یابد صوفی آز از روزگار ** ز آن سبب صوفی بود بسیار خوار
  • Except, to be sure, the Súfí who has eaten his fill of the Light of God: he is free from the shame of beggary;
  • جز مگر آن صوفیی کز نور حق ** سیر خورد او فارغ است از ننگ دق‏
  • (But) of these Súfís there are (only) a few among thousands; the rest are living in (under the protection of) his (the perfect Súfí's spiritual) empire.
  • از هزاران اندکی زین صوفیند ** باقیان در دولت او می‏زیند
  • When the samá‘ had come (run its course) from beginning to end, the minstrel struck up a heavy (deep-sounding) strain. 535
  • چون سماع آمد از اول تا کران ** مطرب آغازید یک ضرب گران‏
  • He commenced (to sing), "The ass is gone, and the ass is gone": he made the whole (company) sharers in this ditty.
  • خر برفت و خر برفت آغاز کرد ** زین حراره جمله را انباز کرد
  • From this enthusiasm (they continued) beating their feet (dancing) to this ditty till dawn, clapping their hands (and singing), "The ass is gone, the ass is gone!"
  • زین حراره پای کوبان تا سحر ** کف‏زنان خر رفت و خر رفت ای پسر
  • By way of imitation that Súfí began (to sing) in (tones of) impassioned feeling this same (phrase), “The ass is gone.”
  • از ره تقلید آن صوفی همین ** خر برفت آغاز کرد اندر حنین‏
  • When the pleasure and excitement and music and dancing were over, day dawned and they all said, “Farewell!”
  • چون گذشت آن نوش و جوش و آن سماع ** روز گشت و جمله گفتند الوداع‏
  • The monastery was deserted, and the Súfí remained (alone): that traveller set about shaking the dust from his baggage. 540
  • خانقه خالی شد و صوفی بماند ** گرد از رخت آن مسافر می‏فشاند
  • He brought out the baggage from his cell, in order that he might tie it on the ass, (for he was) desirous of (finding) people to travel with.
  • رخت از حجره برون آورد او ** تا به خر بر بندد آن همراه جو
  • He was hurrying that he might overtake his fellow-travellers; he went into the stable but did not find the ass.
  • تا رسد در همرهان او می‏شتافت ** رفت در آخر خر خود را نیافت‏
  • He said, “The servant has taken it (the ass) to water, because it drank little water last night.”
  • گفت آن خادم به آبش برده است ** ز انکه خر دوش آب کمتر خورده است‏