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3039-3088

  • While thus meditating, the lion continued to smile visibly: do not trust the smiles of the lion!
  • شیر با این فکر می‌‌زد خنده فاش ** بر تبسمهای شیر ایمن مباش‌‌
  • Worldly wealth is (like) the smiles of God: it has made us drunken and vainglorious and threadbare (deprived of the means of salvation). 3040
  • مال دنیا شد تبسمهای حق ** کرد ما را مست و مغرور و خلق‌‌
  • Poverty and distress are better for thee, O lord, for (then) that smile will remove its lure.
  • فقر و رنجوری به استت ای سند ** کان تبسم دام خود را بر کند
  • How the lion made trial of the wolf and said, “Come forward, O wolf, and divide the prey amongst us.”
  • امتحان کردن شیر گرگ را و گفتن که پیش آی ای گرگ بخش کن صیدها را میان ما
  • The lion said, “O wolf, divide this (prey): O old wolf, make justice new (give it new life by thy example).
  • گفت شیر ای گرگ این را بخش کن ** معدلت را نو کن ای گرگ کهن‌‌
  • Be my deputy in the office of distributor, that it may be seen of what substance thou art.”
  • نایب من باش در قسمت‌‌گری ** تا پدید آید که تو چه گوهری‌‌
  • “O King,” said he, “the wild ox is thy share: he is big, and thou art big and strong and active.
  • گفت ای شه گاو وحشی بخش تست ** آن بزرگ و تو بزرگ و زفت و چست‌‌
  • The goat is mine, for the goat is middle and intermediate; do thou, O fox, receive the hare, and no mistake!” 3045
  • بز مرا که بز میانه ست و وسط ** روبها خرگوش بستان بی‌‌غلط
  • The lion said, “O wolf, how hast thou spoken? Say! When I am here, dost thou speak of ‘I’ and ‘thou’?
  • شیر گفت ای گرگ چون گفتی بگو ** چون که من باشم تو گویی ما و تو
  • Truly, what a cur the wolf must be, that he regarded himself in the presence of a lion like me who am peerless and unrivalled!”
  • گرگ خود چه سگ بود کاو خویش دید ** پیش چون من شیر بی‌‌مثل و ندید
  • (Then) he said, “Come forward, O thou self-esteeming ass!” He approached him, the lion seized him with his claws and rent him.
  • گفت پیش آ ای خری کاو خود بدید ** پیشش آمد پنجه زد او را درید
  • Inasmuch as he (the lion) did not see in him the kernel (real understanding) and right consideration of right conduct, he tore the skin off his head as a punishment.
  • چون ندیدش مغز و تدبیر رشید ** در سیاست پوستش از سر کشید
  • He said, “Since the sight of me did not transport thee out of thyself, a spirit like this (thine) must needs die miserably. 3050
  • گفت چون دید منت از خود نبرد ** این چنین جان را بباید زار مرد
  • Since thou wert not passing away (from thyself) in my presence, ’twas an act of grace to smite thy neck (behead thee).”
  • چون نبودی فانی اندر پیش من ** فضل آمد مر ترا گردن زدن‌‌
  • Everything is perishing except His face: unless thou art in His face (essence), do not seek to exist.
  • کل شی‌‌ء هالک جز وجه او ** چون نه‌‌ای در وجه او هستی مجو
  • When any one has passed away (from himself) in my face (essence), (the words) everything is perishing are not applicable (to him),
  • هر که اندر وجه ما باشد فنا ** کل شيء هالک نبود جزا
  • Because he is in except, he has transcended not (nonentity): whosoever is in except has not passed away (perished).
  • ز آن که در الاست او از لا گذشت ** هر که در الاست او فانی نگشت‌‌
  • Whosoever is uttering ‘I’ and ‘we’ at the door (of the Divine Court), he is turned back from the door and is continuing in not (nonentity). 3055
  • هر که بر در او من و ما می‌‌زند ** رد باب است او و بر لا می‌‌تند
  • The story of the person who knocked at a friend's door: his friend from within asked who he was: he said, “’Tis I,” and the friend answered, “Since thou art thou, I will not open the door: I know not any friend that is ‘I.’ Begone!”
  • قصه‌‌ی آن کس که در یاری بکوفت از درون گفت کیست گفت منم، گفت چون تو تویی در نمی‌‌گشایم هیچ کس را از یاران نمی‌‌شناسم که او من باشد
  • A certain man came and knocked at a friend's door: his friend asked him, “Who art thou, O trusty one?”
  • آن یکی آمد در یاری بزد ** گفت یارش کیستی ای معتمد
  • He answered, “I.” The friend said, “Begone, ’tis not the time (for thee to come in): at a table like this there is no place for the raw.”
  • گفت من، گفتش برو هنگام نیست ** بر چنین خوانی مقام خام نیست‌‌
  • Save the fire of absence and separation, who (what) will cook the raw one? Who (what) will deliver him from hypocrisy?
  • خام را جز آتش هجر و فراق ** کی پزد کی وا رهاند از نفاق‌‌
  • The wretched man went away, and for a year in travel (and) in separation from his friend he was burned with sparks of fire.
  • رفت آن مسکین و سالی در سفر ** در فراق دوست سوزید از شرر
  • That burned one was cooked: then he returned and again paced to and fro beside the house of his comrade. 3060
  • پخته گشت آن سوخته پس باز گشت ** باز گرد خانه‌‌ی همباز گشت‌‌
  • He knocked at the door with a hundred fears and respects, lest any disrespectful word might escape from his lips.
  • حلقه زد بر در به صد ترس و ادب ** تا بنجهد بی‌‌ادب لفظی ز لب‌‌
  • His friend called to him, “Who is at the door?” He answered, “’Tis thou art at the door, O charmer of hearts.”
  • بانگ زد یارش که بر در کیست آن ** گفت بر درهم تویی ای دلستان‌‌
  • “Now,” said the friend, “since thou art I, come in, O myself: there is not room in the house for two I's.
  • گفت اکنون چون منی ای من در آ ** نیست گنجایی دو من را در سرا
  • The double end of thread is not for the needle: inasmuch as thou art single, come into this needle.”
  • نیست سوزن را سر رشته دو تا ** چون که یکتایی درین سوزن در آ
  • ’Tis the thread that is connected with the needle: the eye of the needle is not suitable for the camel. 3065
  • رشته را با سوزن آمد ارتباط ** نیست در خور با جمل سم الخیاط
  • How should the existence (body) of the camel be fined down save by the shears of ascetic exercises and works?
  • کی شود باریک هستی جمل ** جز به مقراض ریاضات و عمل‌‌
  • For that, O reader, the hand (power) of God is necessary, for it is the Be, and it was (bringer into existence) of every (seemingly) impossible thing.
  • دست حق باید مر آن را ای فلان ** کاو بود بر هر محالی کن فکان‌‌
  • By His hand every impossible thing is made possible; by fear of Him every unruly one is made quiet.
  • هر محال از دست او ممکن شود ** هر حرون از بیم او ساکن شود
  • What of the man blind from birth and the leper? Even the dead is made living by the spell of the Almighty,
  • اکمه و ابرص چه باشد مرده نیز ** زنده گردد از فسون آن عزیز
  • And that non-existence which is more dead than the dead— compelled (helpless) in the hand of (under the power of) His bringing (it) into existence. 3070
  • و آن عدم کز مرده مرده‌‌تر بود ** در کف ایجاد او مضطر بود
  • Recite (the text), Every day He is (engaged) in some affair: do not deem Him idle and inactive.
  • کل يوم هو فی شأن بخوان ** مر و را بی‌‌کار و بی‌‌فعلی مدان‌‌
  • His least act, every day, is that He despatches three armies:
  • کمترین کاریش هر روز است آن ** کاو سه لشکر را کند این سو روان‌‌
  • One army from the loins (of the fathers) towards the mothers, in order that the plant may grow in the womb;
  • لشکری ز اصلاب سوی امهات ** بهر آن تا در رحم روید نبات‌‌
  • One army from the wombs to the Earth, that the world may be filled with male and female;
  • لشکری ز ارحام سوی خاکدان ** تا ز نر و ماده پر گردد جهان‌‌
  • One army from the Earth (to what is) beyond death, that every one may behold the beauty of (good) works. 3075
  • لشکری از خاک ز آن سوی اجل ** تا ببیند هر کسی حسن عمل‌‌
  • This discourse hath no end. Come, hasten (back) to those two sincere and devoted friends.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد هین بتاز ** سوی آن دو یار پاک پاک باز
  • Description of Unification.
  • صفت توحید
  • His friend said to him, “Come in, O thou who art entirely myself, not different like the rose and thorn in the garden.”
  • گفت یارش کاندر آ ای جمله من ** نی مخالف چون گل و خار چمن‌‌
  • The thread has become single. Do not now fall into error if thou seest that the letters K and N are two.’
  • رشته یکتا شد غلط کم شد کنون ** گر دو تا بینی حروف کاف و نون‌‌
  • K and N are pulling like a noose, that they may draw non-existence into great affairs.
  • کاف و نون همچون کمند آمد جذوب ** تا کشاند مر عدم را در خطوب‌‌
  • Hence the noose must be double in (the world of) forms, though those two (letters) are single in effect. 3080
  • پس دو تا باید کمند اندر صور ** گر چه یکتا باشد آن دو در اثر
  • Whether the feet be two or four, they traverse the road, like the double shears (which) makes (but) one cut.
  • گر دو پا گر چار پا ره را برد ** همچو مقراض دو تا یکتا برد
  • Look at those two fellow-washermen: there is apparently a difference between that one and this:
  • آن دو همبازان گازر را ببین ** هست در ظاهر خلافی ز آن و ز این‌‌
  • The one has thrown the cotton garments into the water, while the other partner is drying them.
  • آن یکی کرباس را در آب زد ** و آن دگر همباز خشکش می‌‌کند
  • Again the former makes the dry clothes wet: ’tis as though he were spitefully thwarting his opposite;
  • باز او آن خشک را تر می‌‌کند ** گوییا ز استیزه ضد بر می‌‌تند
  • Yet these two opposites, who seem to be at strife, are of one mind and acting together in agreement. 3085
  • لیک این دو ضد استیزه نما ** یکدل و یک کار باشد در رضا
  • Every prophet and every saint hath a way (of religious doctrine and practice), but it leads to God: all (the ways) are (really) one.
  • هر نبی و هر ولی را مسلکی است ** لیک تا حق می‌‌برد جمله یکی است‌‌
  • When slumber (heedlessness) overtook the concentration (attention) of the listener, the water carried the millstones away.
  • چون که جمع مستمع را خواب برد ** سنگهای آسیا را آب برد
  • The course of this water is above the mill: its going into the mill is for your sakes.
  • رفتن این آب فوق آسیاست ** رفتنش در آسیا بهر شماست‌‌