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129-178

  • Everything that is said by one who has not returned to consciousness, if he constrains himself or boastfully exaggerates, is unseemly.
  • کل شی‌‌ء قاله غیر المفیق ** إن تکلف أو تصلف لا یلیق‌‌
  • How should I—not a vein of mine is sensible—describe that Friend who hath no peer? 130
  • من چه گویم یک رگم هشیار نیست ** شرح آن یاری که او را یار نیست‌‌
  • The description of this severance and this heart's blood do thou at present leave over till another time.”
  • شرح این هجران و این خون جگر ** این زمان بگذار تا وقت دگر
  • He said: “Feed me, for I am hungry, and make haste, for Time is a cutting sword.
  • قال أطعمنی فإنی جائع ** و اعتجل فالوقت سیف قاطع‌‌
  • The Súfí is the son of the (present) time, O comrade: it is not the rule of the Way to say ‘To-morrow.’
  • صوفی ابن الوقت باشد ای رفیق ** نیست فردا گفتن از شرط طریق‌‌
  • Art not thou indeed a Súfí, then? That which is (in hand) is reduced to naught by postponing the payment.”
  • تو مگر خود مرد صوفی نیستی ** هست را از نسیه خیزد نیستی‌‌
  • I said to him: “It is better that the secret of the Friend should be disguised: do thou hearken (to it as implied) in the contents of the tale. 135
  • گفتمش پوشیده خوشتر سر یار ** خود تو در ضمن حکایت گوش دار
  • It is better that the lovers' secret should be told in the talk of others.”
  • خوشتر آن باشد که سر دلبران ** گفته آید در حدیث دیگران‌‌
  • He said: “Tell this openly and nakedly: talk of religion is better overt than covert.
  • گفت مکشوف و برهنه گوی این ** آشکارا به که پنهان ذکر دین‌‌
  • Lift the veil and speak nakedly, for I do not wear a shirt when I sleep with the Adored One.”
  • پرده بردار و برهنه گو که من ** می‌‌نخسبم با صنم با پیرهن‌‌
  • I said: “If He should become naked in (thy) vision, neither wilt thou remain nor thy bosom nor thy waist.
  • گفتم ار عریان شود او در عیان ** نی تو مانی نی کنارت نی میان‌‌
  • Ask thy wish, but ask with measure: a blade of straw will not support the mountain. 140
  • آرزو می‌‌خواه لیک اندازه خواه ** بر نتابد کوه را یک برگ کاه‌‌
  • If the Sun, by whom this world is illumined, should approach a little (nearer), all will be burned.
  • آفتابی کز وی این عالم فروخت ** اندکی گر پیش آید جمله سوخت‌‌
  • Do not seek trouble and turmoil and bloodshed: say no more concerning the Sun of Tabriz!”
  • فتنه و آشوب و خون‌‌ریزی مجوی ** بیش از این از شمس تبریزی مگوی‌‌
  • This (mystery) hath no end: tell of the beginning. Go, relate the conclusion of this tale.
  • این ندارد آخر از آغاز گوی ** رو تمام این حکایت باز گوی‌‌
  • How that saint demanded of the king to be alone for the purpose of discovering her malady.
  • خلوت طلبیدن آن ولی از پادشاه جهت دریافتن رنج کنیزک‌‌
  • He said: “O king, make the house empty; send away both kinsfolk and strangers.
  • گفت ای شه خلوتی کن خانه را ** دور کن هم خویش و هم بیگانه را
  • Let no one listen in the entrance-halls, that I may ask certain things of this handmaiden.” 145
  • کس ندارد گوش در دهلیزها ** تا بپرسم زین کنیزک چیزها
  • The house was left empty, and not one inhabitant (remained): nobody save the physician and that sick girl.
  • خانه خالی ماند و یک دیار نی ** جز طبیب و جز همان بیمار نی‌‌
  • Very gently he said (to her), “Where is thy native town? for the treatment suitable to the people of each town is separate.
  • نرم نرمک گفت شهر تو کجاست ** که علاج اهل هر شهری جداست‌‌
  • And in that town who is related to thee? With what hast thou kinship and affinity?”
  • و اندر آن شهر از قرابت کیستت ** خویشی و پیوستگی با چیستت‌‌
  • He laid his hand on her pulse and put questions, one by one, about the injustice of Heaven.
  • دست بر نبضش نهاد و یک به یک ** باز می‌‌پرسید از جور فلک‌‌
  • When a thorn darts into any one's foot, he sets his foot upon his knee, 150
  • چون کسی را خار در پایش جهد ** پای خود را بر سر زانو نهد
  • And keeps searching for its head with the point of a needle, and if he does not find it, he keeps moistening it (the place) with his lip.
  • وز سر سوزن همی‌‌جوید سرش ** ور نیابد می‌‌کند با لب ترش‌‌
  • A thorn in the foot is so hard to find: how (then) is it with a thorn in the heart? Answer (that)!
  • خار در پا شد چنین دشوار یاب ** خار در دل چون بود واده جواب‌‌
  • If every base fellow had seen the thorn in the heart, when would sorrows gain the upper hand over any one?
  • خار در دل گر بدیدی هر خسی ** دست کی بودی غمان را بر کسی‌‌
  • Somebody sticks a thorn under a donkey's tail: the donkey does not know how to get rid of it: he starts jumping.
  • کس به زیر دم خر خاری نهد ** خر نداند دفع آن بر می‌‌جهد
  • He jumps, and the thorn strikes more firmly (pierces deeper): it needs an intelligent person to extract a thorn. 155
  • بر جهد و ان خار محکمتر زند ** عاقلی باید که خاری بر کند
  • In order to get rid of the thorn, the donkey from irritation and pain went on kicking and dealing blows in a hundred places,
  • خر ز بهر دفع خار از سوز و درد ** جفته می‌‌انداخت صد جا زخم کرد
  • (But) that thorn-removing physician was an expert: putting his hand on one spot after another, he tested (it).
  • آن حکیم خارچین استاد بود ** دست می‌‌زد جا به جا می‌‌آزمود
  • He inquired of the girl concerning her friends, by way of narrative,
  • ز ان کنیزک بر طریق داستان ** باز می‌‌پرسید حال دوستان‌‌
  • And she disclosed to the physician (many) circumstances touching her home and (former) masters and town and dwelling.
  • با حکیم او قصه‌‌ها می‌‌گفت فاش ** از مقام و خاجگان و شهر تاش‌‌
  • He listened to her story (while) he continued to observe her pulse and its beating, 160
  • سوی قصه گفتنش می‌‌داشت گوش ** سوی نبض و جستنش می‌‌داشت هوش‌‌
  • So that at whosoever's name her pulse should begin to throb, (he might know that) that person is the object of her soul's desire in the world.
  • تا که نبض از نام کی گردد جهان ** او بود مقصود جانش در جهان‌‌ا ن‌‌
  • He reckoned up the friends and town; then he mentioned another town by name.
  • دوستان شهر او را بر شمرد ** بعد از آن شهری دگر را نام برد
  • He said: “When you went forth from your own town, in which town did you live mostly?”
  • گفت چون بیرون شدی از شهر خویش ** در کدامین شهر بوده ستی تو بیش‌‌
  • She mentioned the name of a certain town and from that too she passed on (to speak of another, and meanwhile) there was no change in the colour of her face or in her pulse.
  • نام شهری گفت وز آن هم در گذشت ** رنگ روی و نبض او دیگر نگشت‌‌
  • Masters and towns, one by one, she told of, and about dwelling-place and bread and salt. 165
  • خواجگان و شهرها را یک به یک ** باز گفت از جای و از نان و نمک‌‌
  • She told stories of many a town and many a house, (and still) no vein of her quivered nor did her cheek grow pale.
  • شهر شهر و خانه خانه قصه کرد ** نی رگش جنبید و نی رخ گشت زرد
  • Her pulse remained in its normal state, unimpaired, till he asked about Samarcand, the (city) sweet as candy.
  • نبض او بر حال خود بد بی‌‌گزند ** تا بپرسید از سمرقند چو قند
  • (Thereat) her pulse jumped and her face went red and pale (by turns), for she had been parted from a man of Samarcand, a goldsmith.
  • نبض جست و روی سرخ و زرد شد ** کز سمرقندی زرگر فرد شد
  • When the physician found out this secret from the sick (girl), he discerned the source of that grief and woe.
  • چون ز رنجور آن حکیم این راز یافت ** اصل آن درد و بلا را باز یافت‌‌
  • He said: “Which is his quarter in passing (through the town)?” “Sar-i Pul (Bridgehead),” she replied, “and Ghátafar street.” 170
  • گفت کوی او کدام است در گذر ** او سر پل گفت و کوی غاتفر
  • Said he: “I know what your illness is and I will at once display the arts of magic in delivering you.
  • گفت دانستم که رنجت چیست زود ** در خلاصت سحرها خواهم نمود
  • Be glad and care-free and have no fear, for I will do to you that which rain does to the meadow.
  • شاد باش و فارغ و ایمن که من ** آن کنم با تو که باران با چمن‌‌
  • I will be anxious for you, be not you anxious: I am kinder to you than a hundred fathers.
  • من غم تو می‌‌خورم تو غم مخور ** بر تو من مشفق‌‌ترم از صد پدر
  • Beware! tell not this secret to any one, not though the king should make much inquiry from you.
  • هان و هان این راز را با کس مگو ** گر چه از تو شه کند بس جستجو
  • When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly.” 175
  • چون که اسرارت نهان در دل شود ** آن مرادت زودتر حاصل شود
  • The Prophet said that any one who hides his inmost thought will soon attain to the object of his desire.
  • گفت پیغمبر که هر که سر نهفت ** زود گردد با مراد خویش جفت‌‌
  • When the seed is hidden in the earth, its inward secret becomes the verdure of the garden.
  • دانه چون اندر زمین پنهان شود ** سر آن سر سبزی بستان شود
  • If gold and silver were not hidden, how would they get nourishment (grow and ripen) in the mine?
  • زر و نقره گر نبودندی نهان ** پرورش کی یافتندی زیر کان‌‌