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  • عنکبوتی تو مگس داری شکار ** من نیم ای سگ مگس زحمت میار
  • You are a spider, you have flies as your prey; O cur, I am not a fly, (so) do not worry.
  • باز اسپیدم شکارم شه کند ** عنکبوتی کی بگرد ما تند
  • I am a white falcon: the King hunts me. How should a spider weave his web about me?
  • رو مگس می‏گیر تا تانی هلا ** سوی دوغی زن مگسها را صلا
  • Go now, continue to catch flies as far as you can: invite the flies to (partake of) some buttermilk;
  • ور بخوانی تو به سوی انگبین ** هم دروغ و دوغ باشد آن یقین‏ 2790
  • And if you call (them) to honey, that too will certainly be lies and buttermilk (fraud).
  • تو مرا بیدار کردی خواب بود ** تو نمودی کشتی آن گرداب بود
  • You awakened me, (but) it (that awakenment) was (really) slumber: you showed (me) a ship, (but) that was (really) a whirlpool.
  • تو مرا در خیر ز آن می‏خواندی ** تا مرا از خیر بهتر راندی‏
  • You were calling me to good for the purpose that you might drive me away from the better good.”
  • فوت شدن دزد به آواز دادن آن شخص صاحب خانه را که نزدیک آمده بود که دزد را دریابد و بگیرد
  • How a thief escaped because some one gave the alarm to the master of the house, who had nearly overtaken and caught the thief.
  • این بدان ماند که شخصی دزد دید ** در وثاق اندر پی او می‏دوید
  • This (behaviour of Iblís) is like that (which is told in the following story), how a certain man saw a thief in the house and ran after him.
  • تا دو سه میدان دوید اندر پیش ** تا در افگند آن تعب اندر خویش‏
  • He ran after him (the length of) two or three fields, till the fatigue threw him into a sweat.
  • اندر آن حمله که نزدیک آمدش ** تا بدو اندر جهد دریابدش‏ 2795
  • At the moment when, rushing on, he had come so near to him that he might spring upon him and seize him,
  • دزد دیگر بانگ کردش که بیا ** تا ببینی این علامات بلا
  • The second thief cried out to him, “Come, that you may see these signs of calamity.
  • زود باش و باز گرد ای مرد کار ** تا ببینی حال اینجا زار زار
  • Be quick and turn back, O man of (prompt) action, that you may see (how) very pitiable (is) the state of things here.”
  • گفت باشد کان طرف دزدی بود ** گر نگردم زود این بر من رود
  • He (the householder) said (to himself), “Maybe a thief is yonder: if I do not return at once, this (fate) will befall me.
  • در زن و فرزند من دستی زند ** بستن این دزد سودم کی کند
  • He may lay hands upon my wife and child, (and in that case) how would it profit me to bind this thief (whom I am pursuing)?
  • این مسلمان از کرم می‏خواندم ** گر نگردم زود پیش آید ندم‏ 2800
  • This Moslem is calling me in kindness: unless I return quickly, repentance will befall (me).”
  • بر امید شفقت آن نیک خواه ** دزد را بگذاشت باز آمد به راه‏
  • In (confident) hope of the compassion of that well-disposed (friend), he left the thief and again set off (in another direction).
  • گفت ای یار نکو احوال چیست ** این فغان و بانگ تو از دست کیست‏
  • “O good friend,” said he, “what is the matter? By whose hand (violence) is this lamentation and outcry of yours (caused)?”
  • گفت اینک بین نشان پای دزد ** این طرف رفته ست دزد زن بمزد
  • “Look here,” said (the other). “See the thief's footprints! The pimping thief has gone this way. [ “Look here,” said (the other). “See the thief's footprints! The thief whose wife is for hire (who prostitutes his wife to other men) has gone this way.]
  • نک نشان پای دزد قلتبان ** در پی او رو بدین نقش و نشان‏
  • Look at the cuckold thief's footprints! Follow him by means of these marks and traces.”
  • گفت ای ابله چه می‏گویی مرا ** من گرفته بودم آخر مر و را 2805
  • He answered, “O fool, what are you telling me? Why, I had (as good as) caught him,
  • دزد را از بانگ تو بگذاشتم ** من تو خر را آدمی پنداشتم‏
  • (But) at your cry I let the thief go. I deemed you, ass (as you are), a (reasonable) man.
  • این چه ژاژست و چه هرزه ای فلان ** من حقیقت یافتم چه بود نشان‏
  • What silly gabble and nonsense is this, O fellow? I (had) found the reality: what (use to me) is the clue?”
  • گفت من از حق نشانت می‏دهم ** این نشان است از حقیقت آگهم‏
  • He replied, “I am giving you a clue to the real (thing). This is the clue; I am acquainted with the reality.”
  • گفت طراری تو یا خود ابلهی ** بلکه تو دزدی و زین حال آگهی‏
  • He (the householder) said, “You are an artful knave or else you are a fool; nay, you are a thief and cognisant of this affair.
  • خصم خود را می‏کشیدم من کشان ** تو رهانیدی و را کاینک نشان‏ 2810
  • I was (on the point of) dragging my adversary along, (when) you let him escape, saying (to me), ‘Here are (his) traces.’”
  • تو جهت گو من برونم از جهات ** در وصال آیات کو یا بینات‏
  • You speak of (external) relations, (but) I transcend (all) relations. In union (with God) where are signs or evidences?