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2037-2086

  • There is rain for the sake of nurture; there is (also) rain for the sake of decay.
  • هست باران از پی پروردگی ** هست باران از پی پژمردگی‌‌
  • Marvellous is the benefit of the rain of springtime, (but) to the garden the autumnal rain is like a (consuming) fever.
  • نفع باران بهاران بو العجب ** باغ را باران پاییزی چو تب‌‌
  • That vernal (rain) makes it tenderly nurtured (flourishing), while this autumnal (rain) makes it sickly and wan.
  • آن بهاری ناز پروردش کند ** وین خزانی ناخوش و زردش کند
  • Similarly know that cold and wind and sun are at variance (produce various effects); and find the clue. 2040
  • همچنین سرما و باد و آفتاب ** بر تفاوت دان و سر رشته بیاب‌‌
  • Even so in the Unseen World there are these different sorts, (consisting) in loss and gain and in profit and defraudment (damage).
  • همچنین در غیب انواع است این ** در زیان و سود و در ربح و غبین‌‌
  • This breath of the Abdál (saints) is from that (spiritual) springtide: from it there grows a green garden in heart and soul.
  • این دم ابدال باشد ز آن بهار ** در دل و جان روید از وی سبزه‌‌زار
  • From their breaths there comes (is produced) in him who is fortunate the (same) effect (as that) of the spring rain on the tree.
  • فعل باران بهاری با درخت ** آید از انفاسشان در نیک بخت‌‌
  • If there be in the place a dry tree, do not deem its defect to be due to the life quickening wind.
  • گر درخت خشک باشد در مکان ** عیب آن از باد جان افزا مدان‌‌
  • The wind did its own work and blew on: he that had a soul chose it in preference to his soul. 2045
  • باد کار خویش کرد و بروزید ** آن که جانی داشت بر جانش گزید
  • On the meaning of the Tradition, “Take advantage of the coolness of the spring season, etc.”
  • در معنی این حدیث که اغتنموا برد الربیع الی آخره‌‌
  • The Prophet said, “Give heed, my friends! Do not cover your bodies from the cold of spring,
  • گفت پیغمبر ز سرمای بهار ** تن مپوشانید یاران زینهار
  • For it does to your spirits the same thing that spring does to the trees;
  • ز آن که با جان شما آن می‌‌کند ** کان بهاران با درختان می‌‌کند
  • But flee from the cold of autumn, for it does what autumn did to the garden and the vines.”
  • لیک بگریزید از سرد خزان ** کان کند کاو کرد با باغ و رزان‌‌
  • The traditionists have referred this (saying) to the outward (sense), and have been content with that same (outward) form.
  • راویان این را به ظاهر برده‌‌اند ** هم بر آن صورت قناعت کرده‌‌اند
  • That class (of people) were ignorant of the spirit: they saw the mountain, they did not see the mine in the mountain. 2050
  • بی‌‌خبر بودند از جان آن گروه ** کوه را دیده ندیده کان بکوه‌‌
  • In the sight of God that “autumn” is the flesh (nafs) and (its) desires: the reason and the spirit are the essence of spring and are everlasting life.
  • آن خزان نزد خدا نفس و هواست ** عقل و جان عین بهار است و بقاست‌‌
  • Thou hast a partial reason hidden (within thee): (now) in this world seek one whose reason is perfect.
  • مر ترا عقل است جزوی در نهان ** کامل العقلی بجو اندر جهان‌‌
  • Through his whole thy part is made whole (and perfect): Universal Reason is like a shackle on the neck of the flesh.
  • جزو تو از کل او کلی شود ** عقل کل بر نفس چون غلی شود
  • Therefore, according to the (right) interpretation, it (the meaning) is this, that the holy breaths are like spring and the life of leaf and vine.
  • پس به تاویل این بود کانفاس پاک ** چون بهار است و حیات برگ و تاک‌‌
  • Against the sayings of the saints, whether soft or rough, do not thou cover thy body, for they are the support of thy religion. 2055
  • از حدیث اولیا نرم و درشت ** تن مپوشان ز آن که دینت راست پشت‌‌
  • Whether he (the saint) speak hot or cold, receive (his words) with joy: in order that thou mayst escape from the hot and cold (of Nature) and from Hell-fire.
  • گرم گوید سرد گوید خوش بگیر ** تا ز گرم و سرد بجهی وز سعیر
  • His “hot” and “cold” is life's new season of spring, the source of sincerity and faith and service.
  • گرم و سردش نو بهار زندگی است ** مایه‌‌ی صدق و یقین و بندگی است‌‌
  • Inasmuch as the garden of the spirits is living through him, and the sea of (his) heart is filled with these pearls,
  • ز آن که زو بستان جانها زنده است ** این جواهر بحر دل آگنده است‌‌
  • Thousands of griefs lie (heavy) on a wise man's heart, if from the garden of his heart (even) a toothpick fail (be missing).
  • بر دل عاقل هزاران غم بود ** گر ز باغ دل خلالی کم شود
  • How the Siddíqa (‘Á’isha), may God be well-pleased with her, asked Mustafá (Mohammed), God bless him and give him peace, saying, “What was the inner meaning of to-day's rain?”
  • پرسیدن صدیقه (س) از پیامبر (ص) که سر باران امروزینه چه بود
  • The Siddíqa said, “O (thou who art the) cream of existence, what was the (true) reason of to-day's rain? 2060
  • گفت صدیقه که ای زبده‌‌ی وجود ** حکمت باران امروزین چه بود
  • Was it (one) of the rains of mercy, or (was it) for the sake of menace and the justice of (Divine) Majesty?
  • این ز بارانهای رحمت بود یا ** بهر تهدید است و عدل کبریا
  • Was it from the favour of the vernal attributes, or from a baneful autumnal attribute?”
  • این از آن لطف بهاریات بود ** یا ز پاییزی پر آفات بود
  • He said, “This (rain) was for the purpose of allaying the grief that is upon the race of Adam in calamity.
  • گفت این از بهر تسکین غم است ** کز مصیبت بر نژاد آدم است‌‌
  • If man were to remain in that fire (of grief), much ruin and loss would befall.
  • گر بر آن آتش بماندی آدمی ** بس خرابی در فتادی و کمی‌‌
  • This world would at once become desolate: (all) selfish desires would go forth from men.” 2065
  • این جهان ویران شدی اندر زمان ** حرصها بیرون شدی از مردمان‌‌
  • Forgetfulness (of God), O beloved, is the pillar (prop) of this world: (spiritual) intelligence is a bane to this world.
  • استن این عالم ای جان غفلت است ** هوشیاری این جهان را آفت است‌‌
  • Intelligence belongs to that (other) world, and when it prevails, this world is overthrown.
  • هوشیاری ز آن جهان است و چو آن ** غالب آید پست گردد این جهان‌‌
  • Intelligence is the sun and cupidity the ice; intelligence is the water and this world the dirt.
  • هوشیاری آفتاب و حرص یخ ** هوشیاری آب و این عالم وسخ‌‌
  • A little trickle (of intelligence) is coming from yonder world, that cupidity and envy may not roar (too loudly) in this world.
  • ز آن جهان اندک ترشح می‌‌رسد ** تا نغرد در جهان حرص و حسد
  • If the trickle from the Unseen should become greater, in this world neither virtue nor vice will be left. 2070
  • گر ترشح بیشتر گردد ز غیب ** نی هنر ماند در این عالم نه عیب‌‌
  • This (topic) has no bound. Go to the starting-point, go back to the tale of the minstrel.
  • این ندارد حد سوی آغاز رو ** سوی قصه‌‌ی مرد مطرب باز رو
  • The remainder of the story of the old harper and the explanation of its issue (moral)
  • بقیه‌‌ی قصه‌‌ی پیر چنگی و بیان مخلص آن‌‌
  • That minstrel by whom the world was filled with rapture, from whose voice wondrous phantasies grew (arose in the minds of those who heard him),
  • مطربی کز وی جهان شد پر طرب ** رسته ز آوازش خیالات عجب‌‌
  • At whose song the bird of the soul would take wing, and at whose note the mind of the spirit would be distraught—
  • از نوایش مرغ دل پران شدی ** وز صدایش هوش جان حیران شدی‌‌
  • When time passed and he grew old, from weakness the falcon, his soul, became a catcher of gnats.
  • چون بر آمد روزگار و پیر شد ** باز جانش از عجز پشه‌‌گیر شد
  • His back became bent like the back of a wine-jar, the brows over his eyes like a crupper-strap. 2075
  • پشت او خم گشت همچون پشت خم ** ابروان بر چشم همچون پالدم‌‌
  • His charming soul-refreshing voice became ugly and worth nothing to any one.
  • گشت آواز لطیف جان فزاش ** زشت و نزد کس نیرزیدی به لاش‌‌
  • The tone that had (once) been the envy of Zuhra (Venus) was now like the bray of an old donkey.
  • آن نوای رشک زهره آمده ** همچو آواز خر پیری شده‌‌
  • Truly, what sweet one is there that did not become unsweet, or what roof that did not become a carpet?—
  • خود کدامین خوش که او ناخوش نشد ** یا کدامین سقف کان مفرش نشد
  • Except the voices of holy men in their breasts, from the repercussion of whose breath is the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
  • غیر آواز عزیزان در صدور ** که بود از عکس دمشان نفخ صور
  • (Theirs is) the heart by which (all) hearts are made drunken, (theirs is) the nonexistence whereby these existences of ours are made existent. 2080
  • اندرونی کاندرونها مست از اوست ** نیستی کاین هستهامان هست از اوست‌‌
  • He (the saint) is the amber (magnet) of (all) thought and of every voice; he is the (inward) delight of revelation and inspiration and (Divine) mystery.
  • کهربای فکر و هر آواز او ** لذت الهام و وحی و راز او
  • When the minstrel grew older and feeble, through not earning (anything) he became indebted for a single loaf of bread.
  • چون که مطرب پیرتر گشت و ضعیف ** شد ز بی‌‌کسبی رهین یک رغیف‌‌
  • He said, “Thou hast given me long life and respite: O God, Thou hast bestowed (many) favours on a vile wretch.
  • گفت عمر و مهلتم دادی بسی ** لطفها کردی خدایا با خسی‌‌
  • For seventy years I have been committing sin, (yet) not for one day hast Thou withheld Thy bounty from me.
  • معصیت ورزیده‌‌ام هفتاد سال ** باز نگرفتی ز من روزی نوال‌‌
  • I (can) earn nothing: to-day I am Thy guest, I will play the harp for Thee, I am Thine.” 2085
  • نیست کسب امروز مهمان توام ** چنگ بهر تو زنم آن توام‌‌
  • He took up his harp and went in search of God to the graveyard of Medina, crying “Alas!”
  • چنگ را برداشت و شد الله جو ** سوی گورستان یثرب آه گو