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5
897-906

  • ور کند نرمی نفاقی می‌کند  ** ز استمالت ارتفاقی می‌کند 
  • And if he (the worldling) behave with mildness (complaisance), he is acting hypocritically: he is seeking an advantage for himself by conciliating (the owner of the Heart).
  • می‌کند آری نه از بهر نیاز  ** تا که ناصح کم کند نصح دراز 
  • He assents, not on account of sincere feeling, (but) in order that the admonisher may curtail his long admonition;
  • زانک این زاغ خس مردارجو  ** صد هزاران مکر دارد تو به تو 
  • For this vile carrion-seeking crow hath a hundred thousand manifold tricks.
  • گر پذیرند آن نفاقش را رهید  ** شد نفاقش عین صدق مستفید  900
  • If they (the saints) accept his hypocrisy, he is saved: his hypocrisy becomes identical with the sincerity of him who benefits by instruction,
  • زانک آن صاحب دل با کر و فر  ** هست در بازار ما معیوب‌خر 
  • Because the august owner of the Heart is a buyer of damaged goods in our bazaar.
  • صاحب دل جو اگر بی‌جان نه‌ای  ** جنس دل شو گر ضد سلطان نه‌ای 
  • Seek the owner of the Heart, if thou art not soulless: become a congener of the Heart, if thou art not an adversary of the (spiritual) Sultan.
  • آنک زرق او خوش آید مر ترا  ** آن ولی تست نه خاص خدا 
  • (But) that one whose hypocrisy pleases thee, he is (only) thy saint, (he is) not the elect of God.
  • هر که او بر خو و بر طبع تو زیست  ** پیش طبع تو ولی است و نبیست 
  • Whosoever lives in accordance with thy disposition and nature seems to thy (carnal) nature to be a saint and a prophet.
  • رو هوا بگذار تا بویت شود  ** وان مشام خوش عبرجویت شود  905
  • Go, renounce sensuality in order that the (spiritual) scent may be thine and that the sweet ambergris-seeking organ of smell may be thine.
  • از هوارانی دماغت فاسدست  ** مشک و عنبر پیش مغزت کاسدست 
  • Thy brain (organ of smell) is corrupted by sensual indulgence: to thy (olfactory) sense musk and ambergris are unsalable.