بخش 175 - تشنیع زدن امرا بر ایاز کی چرا شکستش و جواب دادن ایاز ایشان را

Ayáz said, “O renowned princes, is the King’s command more precious or the pearl?

In your eyes is the command of the sovereign or this goodly pearl superior? For God’s sake (tell me that)!

O ye whose gaze is (fixed) upon the pearl, not upon the King, the ghoul is your object of desire, not the highway.

I will never avert my gaze from the King, I will not turn my face towards a stone, like the polytheist.

Devoid of the (spiritual) pearl is the soul that prefers a coloured stone and puts my King behind.”

Turn thy back towards the rose-coloured doll 6, lose thy reason in Him who bestows the colour.

Come into the river (of reality), dash the pitcher (of phenomenal form) against the stone, set fire to (mere) scent and colour.

If thou art not one of the brigands on the Way of the Religion, do not be addicted, like women, to colour and scent.

Those princes cast down their heads, craving with (all) their soul to be excused for that (act of) forgetfulness.

At that moment from the heart of each one (of them) two hundred sighs were going (up), like a (great) smoke, to heaven.

The King made a sign to the ancient executioner, as though to say, “Remove these vile wretches from my seat of honour.

How are these vile wretches worthy of my seat of honour, when they break my command for the sake of a stone?

For the sake of a coloured stone my command is held contemptible and cheap by evil-doers like these.”