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  • It uproots the old joy, in order that new delight may march in from the Beyond.
  • می‌کند بیخ سرور کهنه را  ** تا خرامد ذوق نو از ما ورا 
  • Sorrow pulls up the crooked rotten (root), in order that it may disclose the root that is veiled from sight.
  • غم کند بیخ کژ پوسیده را  ** تا نماید بیخ رو پوشیده را 
  • Whatsoever (things) sorrow may cause to be shed from the heart or may take away (from it), assuredly it will bring better in exchange,
  • غم ز دل هر چه بریزد یا برد  ** در عوض حقا که بهتر آورد 
  • Especially for him who knows with certainty (intuitively) that sorrow is the servant of the possessors of (intuitive) certainty.
  • خاصه آن را که یقینش باشد این  ** که بود غم بنده‌ی اهل یقین 
  • Unless the clouds and the lightning show a frowning aspect, the vines will be burnt by the smiles of the sun. 3685
  • گر ترش‌رویی نیارد ابر و برق  ** رز بسوزد از تبسمهای شرق 
  • Good and ill fortune become guests in thy heart: like the star (planet), they go from house to house.
  • سعد و نحس اندر دلت مهمان شود  ** چون ستاره خانه خانه می‌رود 
  • At the time when it (the auspicious or inauspicious star) is residing in thy mansion, adapt thyself to it and be agreeable, like its ascendant,
  • آن زمان که او مقیم برج تست  ** باش هم‌چون طالعش شیرین و چست 
  • So that, when it rejoins the Moon, it may speak gratefully of thee to the Lord of the heart.
  • تا که با مه چون شود او متصل  ** شکر گوید از تو با سلطان دل 
  • Job, the (prophet who was) patient and well-pleased (with God), showed sweetness to God's guest during seven years (spent) in tribulation,
  • هفت سال ایوب با صبر و رضا  ** در بلا خوش بود با ضیف خدا 
  • To the end that when the stern-visaged tribulation should turn back (on its way to God), it might give thanks to him in God's presence in a hundred fashions, 3690
  • تا چو وا گردد بلای سخت‌رو  ** پیش حق گوید به صدگون شکر او 
  • Saying, “From love (of Thee) Job never for one moment looked sourly on me, the killer of that which is loved.”
  • کز محبت با من محبوب کش  ** رو نکرد ایوب یک لحظه ترش 
  • From his loyalty and his shame before God's knowledge, he (Job) was like milk and honey (in his behaviour) towards tribulation.
  • از وفا و خجلت علم خدا  ** بود چون شیر و عسل او با بلا 
  • (Whenever) the thought (of sorrow) comes into thy breast anew, go to meet it with smiles and laughter,
  • فکر در سینه در آید نو به نو  ** خند خندان پیش او تو باز رو 
  • Saying, “O my Creator, preserve me from its evil: do not deprive me, (but) let me partake, of its good!
  • که اعذنی خالقی من شره  ** لا تحرمنی انل من بره 
  • O my Lord, prompt me to give thanks for that which I see (receive): do not let me feel any subsequent regret, if it (the benefit received) shall pass away.” 3695
  • رب اوزعنی لشکر ما اری  ** لا تعقب حسرة لی ان مضی 
  • Pay watchful regard to the sour-looking thought: deem that sour one to be sweet as sugar.
  • آن ضمیر رو ترش را پاس‌دار  ** آن ترش را چون شکر شیرین شمار 
  • If the cloud apparently has a sour face, (yet) the cloud is the bringer-on of the rose-garden and the destroyer of the nitrous (barren) soil.
  • ابر را گر هست ظاهر رو ترش  ** گلشن آرنده‌ست ابر و شوره‌کش 
  • Know that the thought of sorrow is like the cloud: do not look so sourly on the sour!
  • فکر غم را تو مثال ابر دان  ** با ترش تو رو ترش کم کن چنان 
  • It may be that the pearl (of thy desire) is in its hand: endeavour that it may depart from thee well-pleased.
  • بوک آن گوهر به دست او بود  ** جهد کن تا از تو او راضی رود 
  • And if the pearl be not (in its hand) and it be not rich, (yet) thou wilt increase (strengthen) thy sweet habit. 3700
  • ور نباشد گوهر و نبود غنی  ** عادت شیرین خود افزون کنی 
  • Thy habit will profit thee on another occasion: some day thy need will suddenly be fulfilled.
  • جای دیگر سود دارد عادتت  ** ناگهان روزی بر آید حاجتت 
  • The thought that hinders thee from joy comes by the command and wise purpose of the Maker.
  • فکرتی کز شادیت مانع شود  ** آن به امر و حکمت صانع شود 
  • O youth, do not call it worthless: it may be a (happy) star and endowed with imperial fortune.
  • تو مخوان دو چار دانگش ای جوان  ** بوک نجمی باشد و صاحب‌قران 
  • Do not say it is a branch: take it to be the root, in order that thou mayst always be master of thy object of desire;
  • تو مگو فرعیست او را اصل گیر  ** تا بوی پیوسته بر مقصود چیر 
  • For if thou take it to be (merely) a branch (derivative) and pernicious, thine eye will be waiting to see the root. 3705
  • ور تو آن را فرع گیری و مضر  ** چشم تو در اصل باشد منتظر 
  • Waiting to see is poison to (spiritual) perception: by that method thou wilt remain perpetually in death.
  • زهر آمد انتظارش اندر چشش  ** دایما در مرگ باشی زان روش 
  • Recognise it as the root, clasp it to thy bosom, and be for ever delivered from the death of waiting to see.
  • اصل دان آن را بگیرش در کنار  ** بازره دایم ز مرگ انتظار 
  • How the Sultan (Mahmud) showed favour to Ayáz.
  • نواختن سلطان ایاز را 
  • “O Ayáz, who art full of humbleness and sincere in all thy ways, thy sincerity is mightier than sea and mountain.
  • ای ایاز پر نیاز صدق‌کیش  ** صدق تو از بحر و از کوهست بیش 
  • For thee there is no stumbling in the hour of lust, so that thy reason, which resembles a mountain (in solidity), should go (hither and thither) like a straw;
  • نه به وقت شهوتت باشد عثار  ** که رود عقل چو کوهت کاه‌وار 
  • Nor in the hour of anger and vengeance do thy powers of long-suffering fail to hold  fast and firm.” 3710
  • نه به وقت خشم و کینه صبرهات  ** سست گردد در قرار و در ثبات 
  • Virilitas haec virilitas est, barba et penis non est; sin minus, rex virorum esset veretrum asini. [Manhood is this manliness, not (just) a beard and a penis; otherwise, an ass’s penis would be the king of men.]
  • مردی این مردیست نه ریش و ذکر  ** ورنه بودی شاه مردان کیر خر 
  • Whom has God in the Qur’an called men? How should there be room for this body there?
  • حق کرا خواندست در قرآن رجال  ** کی بود این جسم را آنجا مجال 
  • What worth has the animal soul? O father, come now, pass through the market of the butchers,
  • روح حیوان را چه قدرست ای پدر  ** آخر از بازار قصابان گذر 
  • (And you will see) a hundred thousand (sheeps’) heads laid on paunches (tripe), of which (heads) the value is less than (that of) the fat caudal part and tail.
  • صد هزاران سر نهاده بر شکم  ** ارزشان از دنبه و از دم کم 
  • Meretrix est (quaevis femina) cui penis impetu mens (tanquam) mus fiat, libido tanquam leo. [A prostitute is (one) who, due to the movement of a penis, (her) intellect becomes a mouse (and her) lust like a lion.] 3715
  • روسپی باشد که از جولان کیر  ** عقل او موشی شود شهوت چو شیر 
  • How a father enjoined his daughter to take care lest she should become with child by her husband.
  • وصیت کردن پدر دختر را کی خود را نگهدار تا حامله نشوی از شوهرت 
  • There was a Khwája who had a daughter with cheeks like (those of) Venus, a face like the moon, and a breast (white) as silver.
  • خواجه‌ای بودست او را دختری  ** زهره‌خدی مه‌رخی سیمین‌بری 
  • (When) she reached maturity, he gave his daughter to a husband: as regards social rank the husband was not a (good) match for her.
  • گشت بالغ داد دختر را به شو  ** شو نبود اندر کفائت کفو او 
  • When a melon is ripe it becomes watery and goes to waste and ruin unless you slice it.
  • خربزه چون در رسد شد آبناک  ** گر بنشکافی تلف گردد هلاک 
  • Since it was (a case of) necessity, he gave his daughter to one who was not (socially) her match, in fear of the evil (that might ensue).
  • چون ضرورت بود دختر را بداد  ** او بناکفوی ز تخویف فساد 
  • He said to his daughter, “Guard thyself from this new bridegroom, do not become with child; 3720
  • گفت دختر را کزین داماد نو  ** خویشتن پرهیز کن حامل مشو 
  • For thy marriage to this beggar was (dictated) by necessity; there is no constancy in this vagabond fellow.
  • کز ضرورت بود عقد این گدا  ** این غریب‌اشمار را نبود وفا 
  • Of a sudden he will jump off and leave all behind: his child will remain on thy hands as a wrong (for which there is no redress).”
  • ناگهان به جهد کند ترک همه  ** بر تو طفل او بماند مظلمه 
  • The daughter replied, “O father, I will do service (to thee): thy counsel is acceptable and prized.”
  • گفت دختر کای پدر خدمت کنم  ** هست پندت دل‌پذیر و مغتنم 
  • Every two or three days the father would enjoin his daughter to take precautions;
  • هر دو روزی هر سه روزی آن پدر  ** دختر خود را بفرمودی حذر 
  • (Nevertheless) she suddenly became with child by him (her husband): how should it be (otherwise when) both the wife and the husband are young?. 3725
  • حامله شد ناگهان دختر ازو  ** چون بود هر دو جوان خاتون و شو 
  • She kept it (the child) hidden from her father, (till) the child was five or six months old.
  • از پدر او را خفی می‌داشتش  ** پنج ماهه گشت کودک یا که شش 
  • (Then) the discovery was made. “What is this?” asked her father; “did not I tell thee to adopt (the practice of) withdrawal from him?
  • گشت پیدا گفت بابا چیست این  ** من نگفتم که ازو دوری گزین 
  • These injunctions of mine were (mere) wind, forsooth! My counsel and exhortations have been of no use to thee.”
  • این وصیتهای من خود باد بود  ** که نکردت پند و وعظم هیچ سود 
  • “Father,” said she, “how should I guard myself? Man and wife, beyond doubt, are (as) fire and cotton.
  • گفت بابا چون کنم پرهیز من  ** آتش و پنبه‌ست بی‌شک مرد و زن 
  • What means has the cotton of guarding itself from the fire, or when is there (any) carefulness and caution in the fire?” 3730
  • پنبه را پرهیز از آتش کجاست  ** یا در آتش کی حفاظست و تقاست