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297-346

  • Know that here (where the saints abide) the (meaning of) “fat” is that the soul becomes fat (flourishing), and (know that) here the plight of the desperate is made good.
  • چربش اینجا دان که جان فربه شود ** کار نااومید اینجا به شود
  • How the smitten would assemble every morning at the door of the (monastic) cell of Jesus, on whom be peace, craving to be healed through his prayer.
  • جمع آمدن اهل آفت هر صباحی بر در صومعه‌ی عیسی علیه السلام جهت طلب شفا به دعای او
  • The table of the spiritual is (like) the cell of Jesus: O afflicted one, beware, beware! Do not forsake this door!
  • صومعه‌ی عیسیست خوان اهل دل ** هان و هان ای مبتلا این در مهل
  • From all sides the people would gather—blind and lame and palsied and clothed in rags—
  • جمع گشتندی ز هر اطراف خلق ** از ضریر و لنگ و شل و اهل دلق
  • At the door of the cell of Jesus in the morning, that he by his breath might deliver them from tribulation. 300
  • بر در آن صومعه‌ی عیسی صباح ** تا بدم اوشان رهاند از جناح
  • As soon as he finished his litanies, that man of goodly religion (Jesus) would go forth at morning tide,
  • او چو فارغ گشتی از اوراد خویش ** چاشتگه بیرون شدی آن خوب‌کیش
  • And would see troops of afflicted feeble folk seated at the door in hope and expectancy.
  • جوق جوقی مبتلا دیدی نزار ** شسته بر در در امید و انتظار
  • (Then) he would say, “O ye that are smitten, the wants of all you here present have been granted by God.
  • گفتی ای اصحاب آفت از خدا ** حاجت این جملگانتان شد روا
  • Hark, set off and go without pain or trouble towards the forgiveness and kindness of God.”
  • هین روان گردید بی رنج و عنا ** سوی غفاری و اکرام خدا
  • All, like tethered camels whose knees you unbind with foresight, 305
  • جملگان چون اشتران بسته‌پای ** که گشایی زانوی ایشان برای
  • At his prayer would begin to run on their feet, hastening gladly and joyously to their homes.
  • خوش دوان و شادمانه سوی خان ** از دعای او شدندی پا دوان
  • (So too) thou hast experienced many maladies in thyself, and hast gained health from these kings of religion (the saints).
  • آزمودی تو بسی آفات خویش ** یافتی صحت ازین شاهان کیش
  • How oft hath thy limping been turned into a smooth (easy) gait, how oft hath thy soul been made void of grief and pain!
  • چند آن لنگی تو رهوار شد ** چند جانت بی غم و آزار شد
  • O heedless one, tie a string to thy foot, that thou mayst not become lost to (unconscious of) thyself even, O sluggard!
  • ای مغفل رشته‌ای بر پای بند ** تا ز خود هم گم نگردی ای لوند
  • Thy ingratitude and forgetfulness did not call to mind thy (former) drinking of honey. 310
  • ناسپاسی و فراموشی تو ** یاد ناورد آن عسل‌نوشی تو
  • Necessarily, that way (by which spiritual blessings were conveyed) became barred to thee, since the hearts of the “men of heart” were made sore by thee.
  • لاجرم آن راه بر تو بسته شد ** چون دل اهل دل از تو خسته شد
  • Quickly overtake them and ask pardon of God; weep lamentably like a cloud,
  • زودشان در یاب و استغفار کن ** همچو ابری گریه‌های زار کن
  • In order that their rose-garden may open its blossoms to thee, and that the ripe fruits may burst and reveal themselves.
  • تا گلستانشان سوی تو بشکفد ** میوه‌های پخته بر خود وا کفد
  • Pace round that same door: do not be less than a dog, if thou hast become (associated as) a fellow-servant with the dog of the Cave,
  • هم بر آن در گرد کم از سگ مباش ** با سگ کهف ار شدستی خواجه‌تاش
  • Because even dogs admonish dogs, saying, “Fix thy heart on thy first home, 315
  • چون سگان هم مر سگان را ناصح‌اند ** که دل اندر خانه‌ی اول ببند
  • Hold fast to the first door where thou didst eat bones, and fulfil thy obligation: do not leave that (debt unpaid).”
  • آن در اول که خوردی استخوان ** سخت گیر و حق گزار آن را ممان
  • They keep biting him (the strange dog), that from a sense of duty he may go thither and be prospered by his first abode.
  • می‌گزندش تا ز ادب آنجا رود ** وز مقام اولین مفلح شود
  • They bite him, saying, “O naughty dog, begone! Do not become an enemy to thy benefactor.
  • می‌گزندش کای سگ طاغی برو ** با ولی نعمتت یاغی مشو
  • Be attached, like the door-ring, to that same door; keep watch and be nimble and ready to spring.
  • بر همان در همچو حلقه بسته باش ** پاسبان و چابک و برجسته باش
  • Do not be the type of our breaking faith, do not recklessly make (our) disloyalty notorious. 320
  • صورت نقض وفای ما مباش ** بی‌وفایی را مکن بیهوده فاش
  • Since fidelity is the badge by which the dogs are known, begone and do not bring opprobrium and ill-fame upon the dogs.”
  • مر سگان را چون وفا آمد شعار ** رو سگان را ننگ و بدنامی میار
  • Inasmuch as unfaithfulness has (always) been a disgrace (even) to dogs, how shouldst thou deem it right to show unfaithfulness?
  • بی‌وفایی چون سگان را عار بود ** بی‌وفایی چون روا داری نمود
  • The high God hath boasted of faithfulness: He hath said, “Who but I am most faithful in keeping a promise?”
  • حق تعالی فخر آورد از وفا ** گفت من اوفی بعهد غیرنا
  • Know that faithfulness (to others when it is accompanied) with rejection of God is unfaithfulness: no one hath precedence over (hath a prior claim to) God's rights.
  • بی‌وفایی دان وفا با رد حق ** بر حقوق حق ندارد کس سبق
  • Thy mother's right (only) arose after that Bounteous One had made her indebted (to Him) for thy embryo. 325
  • حق مادر بعد از آن شد کان کریم ** کرد او را از جنین تو غریم
  • He bestowed on thee a form within her body, He gave ease to her during pregnancy and accustomed her (to the burden).
  • صورتی کردت درون جسم او ** داد در حملش ورا آرام و خو
  • She deemed thee as a part joined (to herself); His providence separated (from her) that which was joined.
  • همچو جزو متصل دید او ترا ** متصل را کرد تدبیرش جدا
  • God hath prepared thousands of artifices and contrivances, so that thy mother hath thrown (her) love upon thee.
  • حق هزاران صنعت و فن ساختست ** تا که مادر بر تو مهر انداختست
  • Therefore God's right is prior to (that of) the mother: whoever does not recognise that right is an ass.
  • پس حق حق سابق از مادر بود ** هر که آن حق را نداند خر بود
  • (If thou deny it), do not even admit that He created mother, teat, and milk, and united her with the father! 330
  • آنک مادر آفرید و ضرع و شیر ** با پدر کردش قرین آن خود مگیر
  • O Lord, O Thou whose beneficence is eternal, Thine is both that which I know and that which I know not.
  • ای خداوند ای قدیم احسان تو ** آنک دانم وانک نه هم آن تو
  • Thou didst command, saying, “Remember God, because My right shall never grow old.
  • تو بفرمودی که حق را یاد کن ** زانک حق من نمی‌گردد کهن
  • Remember the kindness which I did unto you that morn by protecting (you) in the ship (ark) of Noah.
  • یاد کن لطفی که کردم آن صبوح ** با شما از حفظ در کشتی نوح
  • At that time I gave to the stock of your fathers security from the Flood and from its waves.
  • پیله بابایانتان را آن زمان ** دادم از طوفان و از موجش امان
  • Water, like fire in (its deadly) nature, had covered the earth: its waves were sweeping away the highest peaks of the mountains. 335
  • آب آتش خو زمین بگرفته بود ** موج او مر اوج که را می‌ربود
  • I protected you, I did not spurn you, in the bodies of the ancestors of the ancestors of your ancestors.
  • حفظ کردم من نکردم ردتان ** در وجود جد جد جدتان
  • Now that you have come to the head, how should I smite the sole of your foot? How should I let My workshop go to waste?
  • چون شدی سر پشت پایت چون زنم ** کارگاه خویش ضایع چون کنم
  • How are you becoming devoted to the unfaithful and going in that direction from ill thoughts (of Me)?
  • چون فدای بی‌وفایان می‌شوی ** از گمان بد بدان سو می‌روی
  • I am clear of negligence and infidelities, (yet) you come to Me and think evil.
  • من ز سهو و بی‌وفاییها بری ** سوی من آیی گمان بد بری
  • Think this evil thought against the place where you cringe before one like yourself. 340
  • این گمان بد بر آنجا بر که تو ** می‌شوی در پیش همچون خود دوتو
  • You got many powerful friends and companions: if I ask you, ‘Where (is so and- so)?’ you will say, ‘He is gone.’
  • بس گرفتی یار و همراهان زفت ** گر ترا پرسم که کو گویی که زفت
  • Your good friend is gone up to the highest Heaven, your wicked friend is gone to the bottom of the earth.
  • یار نیکت رفت بر چرخ برین ** یار فسقت رفت در قعر زمین
  • You are left in the middle (between them) so helpless (as you are), like a fire (left behind) from a caravan.”
  • تو بماندی در میانه آنچنان ** بی‌مدد چون آتشی از کاروان
  • O valiant friend, lay hold of the skirt of Him who is exempt from “above” and “below.”
  • دامن او گیر ای یار دلیر ** کو منزه باشد از بالا و زیر
  • Neither doth He ascend to Heaven, like Jesus, nor go (down) into the earth, like Qárún (Korah). 345
  • نه چو عیسی سوی گردون بر شود ** نه چو قارون در زمین اندر رود
  • He is with you in space and in the spaceless (world) when you leave house and shop behind.
  • با تو باشد در مکان و بی‌مکان ** چون بمانی از سرا و از دکان