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2089-2098

  • دیگ را گر باز ماند امشب دهن ** گربه را هم شرم باید داشتن
  • If to-night the mouth of the cooking-pot is left open, yet the cat must have discretion.
  • خویشتن گر خفته کرد آن خوب فر ** سخت بیدارست دستارش مبر 2090
  • If that glorious one (the saint) has feigned to be asleep, he is (really) very much awake: do not carry off his turban.
  • چند گویی ای لجوج بی‌صفا ** این فسون دیو پیش مصطفی
  • How long, O contumacious man devoid of (spiritual) excellence, wilt thou utter these Devil's enchantments in the presence of God's elect one?
  • صد هزاران حلم دارند این گروه ** هر یکی حلمی از آنها صد چو کوه
  • This company (of the elect) have a hundred thousand forbearances, every one of which is (immovable) as a hundred mountains.
  • حلمشان بیدار را ابله کند ** زیرک صد چشم را گمره کند
  • Their forbearance makes a fool of the wary and causes the keen-witted man with a hundred eyes to lose his way.
  • حلمشان هم‌چون شراب خوب نغز ** نغز نغزک بر رود بالای مغز
  • Their forbearance, like fine choice wine, mounts by nice degrees up to the brain.
  • مست را بین زان شراب پرشگفت ** هم‌چو فرزین مست کژ رفتن گرفت 2095
  • Behold the man drunken with that marvellous (earthly) wine: the drunken man has begun to move crookedly like the queen (in chess).
  • مرد برنا زان شراب زودگیر ** در میان راه می‌افتد چو پیر
  • From (the effect of) that quickly-catching wine the (vigorous) youth is falling in the middle of the road, like an aged man.
  • خاصه این باده که از خم بلی است ** نه میی که مستی او یکشبیست
  • Especially (consider the effect of) this (spiritual) wine which is from the jar of Balá—not the wine whereof the intoxication lasts (only) one night;
  • آنک آن اصحاب کهف از نقل و نقل ** سیصد و نه سال گم کردند عقل
  • (But) that (wine) from which, (by drinking it) at dessert and in migration (from place to place), the Men of the Cave (the Seven Sleepers) lost their reason for three hundred and nine years.