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  • پس چه خوانیمت بگو ای جوهری ** گفت طاوس نر چون مشتری
  • “Say then, what shall we call thee, O creature of (pure) substance?” He replied, “ A peacock (brilliant) as Jupiter.”
  • پس بگفتندش که طاوسان جان ** جلوه‌ها دارند اندر گلستان
  • Then they said to him, “The spiritual peacocks have displays (with the Beloved) in the Rose-garden:
  • تو چنان جلوه کنی گفتا که نی ** بادیه نارفته چون کوبم منی 775
  • Dost thou display thyself like that?” “No,” said he: “not having gone into the desert, how should I tread (the valley of) Mina?”
  • بانگ طاووسان کنی گفتا که لا ** پس نه‌ای طاووس خواجه بوالعلا
  • “Dost thou utter the cry of peacocks?” “Nay,” said he. “Then, Master Bu’l-‘Alam thou art not a peacock.
  • خلعت طاووس آید ز آسمان ** کی رسی از رنگ و دعویها بدان
  • The peacock’s garment of honour comes from Heaven: how wilt thou attain thereto by means of colours and pretences?”
  • تشبیه فرعون و دعوی الوهیت او بدان شغال کی دعوی طاوسی می‌کرد
  • Comparison of Pharaoh and his pretence of divinity to the jackal which pretended to be a peacock.
  • همچو فرعونی مرصع کرده ریش ** برتر از عیسی پریده از خریش
  • Thou art even as Pharaoh, who bejeweled his beard and in his asinine folly soared higher than Jesus.
  • او هم از نسل شغال ماده زاد ** در خم مالی و جاهی در فتاد
  • He too was born of the generation of the she-jackal and fell into a vat of riches and power.
  • هر که دید آن جاه و مالش سجده کرد ** سجده‌ی افسوسیان را او بخورد 780
  • Every one who beheld his power and riches bowed down to him in worship: he swallowed the worship of the idle mockers (worldlings).
  • گشت مستک آن گدای ژنده‌دلق ** از سجود و از تحیرهای خلق
  • That beggar in tattered cloak became miserably drunken with the people’s worship and feelings of amazement.
  • مال مار آمد که در وی زهرهاست ** و آن قبول و سجده‌ی خلق اژدهاست
  • Riches are a snake, for therein are poisons; and popular favour and worship is a dragon.