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2539-2563

  • This King of Tirmid was apprehensive of (being attacked by) him, and his apprehension was increased by the artifice of Dalqak.
  • این شه ترمد ازو در وهم بود  ** وز فن دلقک خود آن وهمش فزود 
  • He said, “Be quick! Tell (me) what is the matter. Who is the cause of your being so perturbed and agitated?” 2540
  • گفت زوتر بازگو تا حال چیست  ** این چنین آشوب و شور تو ز کیست 
  • He replied, “I heard in the country that the king had proclaimed on every highway
  • گفت من در ده شنیدم آنک شاه  ** زد منادی بر سر هر شاه‌راه 
  • That he required some one to run to Samarcand in three days and would bestow (his) treasures (on the courier).
  • که کسی خواهم که تازد در سه روز  ** تا سمرقند و دهم او را کنوز 
  • I hurried to you in order to say that I am not able to do it.
  • من شتابیدم بر تو بهر آن  ** تا بگویم که ندارم آن توان 
  • For one like me such agility is impossible: at all events do not expect this of me.”
  • این چنین چستی نیاید از چو من  ** باری این اومید را بر من متن 
  • “Curse your hurry!” cried the king; “for (in consequence of it) a hundred confusions have arisen in the city. 2545
  • گفت شه لعنت برین زودیت باد  ** که دو صد تشویش در شهر اوفتاد 
  • (Is it only) for this trifle, O half-baked fool, (that) you have set fire to this meadow and hay?”
  • از برای این قدر خام‌ریش  ** آتش افکندی درین مرج و حشیش 
  • (This is) like (the behaviour of) these raw (ignorant) persons (who come) with drum and banner, saying, “We are couriers (speeding) in (the path of spiritual) poverty and non-existence,”
  • هم‌چو این خامان با طبل و علم  ** که الاقانیم در فقر و عدم 
  • (Who) boast far and wide of being Shaykhs and make out that they have (attained to) the rank of Báyazíd,
  • لاف شیخی در جهان انداخته  ** خویشتن را بایزیدی ساخته 
  • And, having (as they claim) travelled away from themselves and become united (with God), open a conventicle (for disciples) in the abode of pretension.
  • هم ز خود سالک شده واصل شده  ** محفلی واکرده در دعوی‌کده 
  • (While) the bridegroom's house is full of turmoil and trouble, the girl's family know nothing about it. 2550
  • خانه‌ی داماد پرآشوب و شر  ** قوم دختر را نبوده زین خبر 
  • (The bridegroom's people raise) an outcry, saying, “Half the affair is concluded: the conditions that are (necessary) on our side have been fulfilled.
  • ولوله که کار نیمی راست شد  ** شرطهایی که ز سوی ماست شد 
  • We have swept and garnished the rooms and have risen up (from our labour) intoxicated and glad with this ardent desire (to receive the bride).”
  • خانه‌ها را روفتیم آراستیم  ** زین هوس سرمست و خوش برخاستیم 
  • Has any message come from over there? “No.” Has any bird come hither from that roof? “No.”
  • زان طرف آمد یکی پیغام نی  ** مرغی آمد این طرف زان بام نی 
  • After (all) these missives (which ye have sent) one on the top of another, has any answer reached you from that neighbourhood?
  • زین رسالات مزید اندر مزید  ** یک جوابی زان حوالیتان رسید 
  • “No; but our Friend is acquainted with this (matter), because inevitably there is a way from heart to heart.” 2555
  • نی ولیکن یار ما زین آگهست  ** زانک از دل سوی دل لا بد رهست 
  • Why, then, is the way devoid of (any) answer to (your) letter from the Friend who is (the object of) your hope?
  • پس از آن یاری که اومید شماست  ** از جواب نامه ره خالی چراست 
  • There are a hundred signs (of response), (both) secret and manifest; but desist, do not lift the curtain from this door.
  • صد نشانست از سرار و از جهار  ** لیک بس کن پرده زین در بر مدار 
  • Return to the story of that foolish Dalqak who brought tribulation on himself by his silly meddling.
  • باز رو تا قصه‌ی آن دلق گول  ** که بلا بر خویش آورد از فضول 
  • Afterwards the vizier said to him (the king), “O Pillar of the Truth, hear a word from thy humble slave.
  • پس وزیرش گفت ای حق را ستن  ** بشنو از بنده‌ی کمینه یک سخن 
  • Dalqak came from the country on some (wicked) enterprise; (but now) his mind is changed and he has repented. 2560
  • دلقک از ده بهر کاری آمدست  ** رای او گشت و پشیمانش شدست 
  • He is making the old (corruption) new with water and oil (varnish), he is evading (punishment) by means of buffoonery.
  • ز آب و روغن کهنه را نو می‌کند  ** او به مسخرگی برون‌شو می‌کند 
  • He has displayed the scabbard and concealed the sword: he must be tortured without mercy.
  • غمد را بنمود و پنهان کرد تیغ  ** باید افشردن مرورا بی‌دریغ 
  • Unless you break the pistachio or walnut, it will neither reveal its heart (kernel) nor give any oil.
  • پسته را یا جوز را تا نشکنی  ** نی نماید دل نی بدهد روغنی