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  • آن یکی گوید بریده گوش بود ** و آن دگر گوید جلش منقوش بود 2920
  • One (of them) says, “It was crop-eared,” and another says, “Its saddlecloth was embroidered.”
  • آن یکی گوید شتر یک چشم بود ** و آن دگر گوید ز گر بی‏پشم بود
  • One says, “The camel had (only) one eye,” and another says, “It (was suffering) from mange (and) had no hair.”
  • از برای مژدگانی صد نشان ** از گزافه هر خسی کرده بیان‏
  • For the sake of the reward every rascal, (speaking) at random, sets forth a hundred clues.
  • متردد شدن در میان مذهبهای مخالف و بیرون شو و مخلص یافتن‏
  • On being perplexed amidst discordant doctrines and finding (a means of) escape and deliverance.
  • همچنان که هر کسی در معرفت ** می‏کند موصوف غیبی را صفت‏
  • (This is) even as in the matter of knowledge (of God) every one describes (differently) the Unseen Object of description.
  • فلسفی از نوع دیگر کرده شرح ** باحثی مر گفت او را کرده جرح‏
  • The philosopher gives an explanation of another (a particular) kind; a scholastic theologian invalidates his statement;
  • و آن دگر در هر دو طعنه می‏زند ** و آن دگر از زرق جانی می‏کند 2925
  • And some one else jeers at both of them, while another hypocritically tires himself to death (trying to prove that he has real knowledge of God).
  • هر یک از ره این نشانها ز آن دهند ** تا گمان آید که ایشان ز آن ده‏اند
  • Each one (of them) gives these indications of the Way, in order that it may be supposed that they belong to that Village.
  • این حقیقت دان نه حق‏اند این همه ** نی بکلی گمرهانند این رمه‏
  • Know the truth to be this, (that) all these (various persons) are not in the right; nor (again) are this herd entirely astray,
  • ز انکه بی‏حق باطلی ناید پدید ** قلب را ابله به بوی زر خرید
  • Because nothing false is shown without the True: the fool bought (desired) spurious coin in the hope of (its being) gold.
  • گر نبودی در جهان نقدی روان ** قلبها را خرج کردن کی توان‏
  • If there were no current (genuine) coin in the world, how would it be possible to issue false coins?