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1168-1192

  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
  • شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود  ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود 
  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.
  • ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست  ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست 
  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel. 1170
  • تو مشو غره به علمش عهد جو  ** علم چون قشرست و عهدش مغز او 
  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’
  • در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد ارایت الذی ینهی عبدا اذا صلی 
  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.
  • وافیان را چون ببینی کرده سود  ** تو چو شیطانی شوی آنجا حسود 
  • Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.
  • هرکرا باشد مزاج و طبع سست  ** او نخواهد هیچ کس را تن‌درست 
  • If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.
  • گر نخواهی رشک ابلیسی بیا  ** از در دعوی به درگاه وفا 
  • When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self-assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’
  • چون وفاات نیست باری دم مزن  ** که سخن دعویست اغلب ما و من 
  • These words, (whilst they stay) in the breast, are an income consisting of (spiritual) kernels: in silence the spiritual kernel grows a hundredfold. 1175
  • این سخن در سینه دخل مغزهاست  ** در خموشی مغز جان را صد نماست 
  • When it (the word) comes on to the tongue, the kernel is expended: refrain from expending, in order that the goodly kernel may remain (with you).
  • چون بیامد در زبان شد خرج مغز  ** خرج کم کن تا بماند مغز نغز 
  • The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.
  • مرد کم گوینده را فکرست زفت  ** قشر گفتن چون فزون شد مغز رفت 
  • (When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.
  • پوست افزون بود لاغر بود مغز  ** پوست لاغر شد چو کامل گشت و نغز 
  • Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.
  • بنگر این هر سه ز خامی رسته را  ** جوز را و لوز را و پسته را 
  • Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous. 1180
  • هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود  ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود 
  • When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.
  • چونک در عهد خدا کردی وفا  ** از کرم عهدت نگه دارد خدا 
  • You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.
  • از وفای حق تو بسته دیده‌ای  ** اذکروا اذکرکم نشنیده‌ای 
  • Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.
  • گوش نه اوفوا به عهدی گوش‌دار  ** تا که اوفی عهدکم آید ز یار 
  • What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.
  • عهد و قرض ما چه باشد ای حزین  ** هم‌چو دانه‌ی خشک کشتن در زمین 
  • From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth. 1185
  • نه زمین را زان فروغ و لمتری  ** نه خداوند زمین را توانگری 
  • (’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof Thou didst create from non-existence.
  • جز اشارت که ازین می‌بایدم  ** که تو دادی اصل این را از عدم 
  • I ate, and (now) I bring the seed as a token, begging Thee to send to us such bounty (as before).’
  • خوردم و دانه بیاوردم نشان  ** که ازین نعمت به سوی ما کشان 
  • Abandon, then, the dry (verbal) prayer, O fortunate one; for the tree demands (presupposes) the scattering of seed.
  • پس دعای خشک هل ای نیک‌بخت  ** که فشاند دانه می‌خواهد درخت 
  • (But) if you have no seed, on account of that prayer God will bestow on you a palm-tree, saying, ‘How well did he labour!’
  • گر نداری دانه ایزد زان دعا  ** بخشدت نخلی که نعم ما سعی 
  • Like Mary: she had (heartfelt) pain, but no seed: an artful One made green that (withered) palm-tree (for her sake). 1190
  • هم‌چو مریم درد بودش دانه نی  ** سبز کرد آن نخل را صاحب‌فنی 
  • Because that noble Lady was loyal (to God), God gave unto her a hundred desires without desire on her part.
  • زانک وافی بود آن خاتون راد  ** بی‌مرادش داد یزدان صد مراد 
  • The company who have been loyal are given superiority over all (other) sorts (of men).
  • آن جماعت را که وافی بوده‌اند  ** بر همه اصنافشان افزوده‌اند