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دفتر ششم - بخش ۷ - در بیان آنک این غرور تنها آن هندو را نبود بلک هر آدمیی به چنین غرور مبتلاست در هر مرحله‌ای الا من عصم الله / Book Six - Section 7 - In explanation that this pride was not only in that Hindu, but rather every human is afflicted by such pride at every stage, except him whom God protects

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چون بپیوستی بدان ای زینهارچند نالی در ندامت زار زار
Since you have joined that path, O careful one,
How long will you bitterly lament in regret?
نام میری و وزیری و شهیدر نهانش مرگ و درد و جان دهی
The title of emir, vizier, and king,
Hides within it death, pain, and yielding the ghost.
بنده باش و بر زمین رو چون سمندچون جنازه نه که بر گردن برند
Be a slave and walk on the earth like a horse;
Do not be like a corpse that they carry on their necks.
جمله را حمال خود خواهد کفورچون سوار مرده آرندش به گور
The ungrateful one wants everyone to be his porter,
Like a dead rider being brought to the grave.
بر جنازه هر که را بینی به خوابفارس منصب شود عالی رکاب
Whoever you see on a bier in a dream,
Will become a rider of high rank and exalted stirrup.
زانک آن تابوت بر خلقست باربار بر خلقان فکندند این کبار
Because that coffin is a burden on the people,
These great ones have cast their burden on the people.
بار خود بر کس منه بر خویش نهسروری را کم طلب درویش به
Do not place your burden on anyone, place it on yourself;
Seek leadership less, being a dervish is better.
مرکب اعناق مردم را مپاتا نیاید نقرست اندر دو پا
Do not mount the necks of the people,
Lest gout comes into your two feet.
مرکبی را که آخرش تو ده دهیکه به شهری مانی و ویران دهی
A mount for which, in the end, you would give a village,
So that you may remain in a city and give up a ruined village,
ده دهش اکنون که چون شهرت نمودتا نباید رخت در ویران گشود
Give it up now, while it appears as a city to you,
So that you do not have to unpack your baggage in ruins.
ده دهش اکنون که صد بستانت هستتا نگردی عاجز و ویران پرست
Give it up now, while you have a hundred gardens,
So you do not become helpless and a worshipper of ruins.
گفت پیغامبر که جنت از الهگر همی خواهی ز کس چیزی مخواه
The Prophet said, 'If you desire Paradise from God,
Do not ask for anything from anyone.'
چون نخواهی من کفیلم مر تراجنت الماوی و دیدار خدا
'Since you ask not, I am your guarantor
For the Abode of Paradise and the vision of God.'
آن صحابی زین کفالت شد عیارتا یکی روزی که گشته بد سوار
That companion was tested by this guarantee;
Until one day when he was riding,
تازیانه از کفش افتاد راستخود فرو آمد ز کس آنرا نخواست
The whip fell straight from his hand;
He came down himself and did not ask anyone for it.
آنک از دادش نیاید هیچ بدداند و بی خواهشی خود می دهد
He (God) whose gift brings no harm,
Knows and gives of Himself without being asked.
ور به امر حق بخواهی آن رواستآنچنان خواهش طریق انبیاست
And if you ask by God's command, that is lawful;
Such asking is the way of the Prophets.
بد نماند چون اشارت کرد دوستکفر ایمان شد چو کفر از بهر اوست
Evil does not remain evil when the Friend has commanded it;
Infidelity becomes faith when the infidelity is for His sake.
هر بدی که امر او پیش آوردآن ز نیکوهای عالم بگذرد
Any evil that His command brings forward,
Surpasses the good things of the world.
زان صدف گر خسته گردد نیز پوستده مده که صد هزاران در دروست
If the shell becomes bruised, do not give it away,
For there are hundreds of thousands of pearls in it.
این سخن پایان ندارد بازگردسوی شاه و هم مزاج باز گرد
This discourse has no end; return
Back to the King and the one of falcon-like temperament.
باز رو در کان چو زر ده دهیتا رهد دستان تو از ده دهی
Go back into the mine like pure ten-tenths gold,
So that your hands may be freed from begging.
صورتی را چون بدل ره می دهنداز ندامت آخرش ده می دهند
When they give an outward form access to the heart,
In the end, out of regret, they give it back.
توبه می آرند هم پروانه وارباز نسیان می کشدشان سوی کار
They repent like the moth,
Yet forgetfulness drags them back to the deed.
هم چو پروانه ز دور آن نار رانور دید و بست آن سو بار را
Like the moth, from afar it saw that fire
As light, and packed its baggage for that direction.
چون بیامد سوخت پرش را گریختباز چون طفلان فتاد و ملح ریخت
When it arrived, it burned its wings and fled;
Again, like children, it fell and made excuses.
بار دیگر بر گمان طمع سودخویش زد بر آتش آن شمع زود
Once again, expecting the hope of gain,
It threw itself swiftly onto the fire of that candle.
بار دیگر سوخت هم واپس بجستباز کردش حرص دل ناسی و مست
Once more it burned and sprang back;
Again the greed of its heart made it forgetful and intoxicated.
آن زمان کز سوختن وا می جهدهم چو هندو شمع را ده می دهد
At the moment it leaps back from the burning,
Like the Hindu, it blames the candle,
که ای رخت تابان چون ماه شب فروزوی به صحبت کاذب و مغرورسوز
Saying, 'O you whose face shines like the night-illuminating moon,
And who in companionship are false and a burner of the deceived!'
باز از یادش رود توبه و انینکاوهن الرحمن کید الکاذبین
Again its repentance and groaning fade from memory,
For the Merciful weakens the snare of the liars.

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