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2795-2819

  • نوح اندر بادیه کشتی بساخت ** صد مثل‌گو از پی تسخیر بتاخت 2795
  • Noah built an Ark in the desert : a hundred speakers of parables ran up to ridicule (him).
  • در بیابانی که چاه آب نیست ** می‌کند کشتی چه نادان و ابلهیست
  • He is making a ship (Ark) in the desert where no well of water exists: what an ignorant fool he is!"
  • آن یکی می‌گفت ای کشتی بتاز ** و آن یکی می‌گفت پرش هم بساز
  • One was saying, "O ship, run!" while another said, "Make wings for it too ! "
  • او همی‌گفت این به فرمان خداست ** این بچربکها نخواهد گشت کاست
  • He (Noah) said, "This is by the command of God: this will not be defeated by jeers."
  • حکایت آن دزد کی پرسیدند چه می‌کنی نیم‌شب در بن این دیوار گفت دهل می‌زنم
  • Story of the thief who was asked, “What are you doing at the bottom of this wall at midnight?” and replied, “I am beating a drum.”
  • این مثل بشنو که شب دزدی عنید ** در بن دیوار حفره می‌برید
  • Hear this parable—how a wicked thief was cutting a hole at the bottom of a wall.
  • نیم‌بیداری که او رنجور بود ** طقطق آهسته‌اش را می‌شنود 2800
  • Some one half-awake, who was ill, heard the soft tapping of his (pick),
  • رفت بر بام و فرو آویخت سر ** گفت او را در چه کاری ای پدر
  • And went on the roof and hung his head down and said to him, “What are you about, O father?
  • خیر باشد نیمشب چه می‌کنی ** تو کیی گفتا دهل‌زن ای سنی
  • All is well, I hope. What are you doing (here) at midnight? Who are you?” He said, “A drummer, O honourable sir.”
  • در چه کاری گفت می‌کوبم دهل ** گفت کو بانگ دهل ای بوسبل
  • “What are you about?” He said, “I am beating the drum.” He (the sick man) said, “Where is the noise of the drum, O artful one?”
  • گفت فردا بشنوی این بانگ را ** نعره یا حسرتا وا ویلتا
  • He said, “You will hear this noise to-morrow, (namely) cries of ‘Oh, alas!’ and ‘Oh, woe is me!’”
  • آن دروغست و کژ و بر ساخته ** سر آن کژ را تو هم نشناخته 2805
  • That (story of the hare and the elephant) is a lie and false and made up; moreover, thou hast not perceived the secret (the esoteric meaning) of that falsehood.
  • جواب آن مثل کی منکران گفتند از رسالت خرگوش پیغام به پیل از ماه آسمان
  • The answer to the parable which the unbelievers related concerning the hare's being sent as ambassador with a message to the elephant from the Moon in heaven.
  • سر آن خرگوش دان دیو فضول ** که به پیش نفس تو آمد رسول
  • Know that the hidden nature of that hare is the insolent Devil who came as an ambassador to thy soul,
  • تا که نفس گول را محروم کرد ** ز آب حیوانی که از وی خضر خورد
  • In order that he might deprive thy foolish soul of the Water of Life whence Khizr drank.
  • بازگونه کرده‌ای معنیش را ** کفر گفتی مستعد شو نیش را
  • Thou hast perverted its (the parable's) meaning, thou hast uttered blasphemy: prepare thyself for the sting (of Divine chastisement).
  • اضطراب ماه گفتی در زلال ** که بترسانید پیلان را شغال
  • Thou hast spoken of the moon's being disturbed in the limpid water, whereby the jackal (hare) frightened the elephants;
  • قصه‌ی خرگوش و پیل آری و آب ** خشیت پیلان ز مه در اضطراب 2810
  • Thou relatest the story of the hare and the elephant and the water, and the elephant's fear of the moon when it was disturbed:
  • این چه ماند آخر ای کوران خام ** با مهی که شد زبونش خاص و عام
  • O ye half-baked blind men, pray, how does this bear any resemblance to the Moon to whom (both) lords and commons are subject?
  • چه مه و چه آفتاب و چه فلک ** چه عقول و چه نفوس و چه ملک
  • What is the moon and what is the sun and what is the sky? What are intelligences and souls and angels?
  • آفتاب آفتاب آفتاب ** این چه می‌گویم مگر هستم بخواب
  • “The Sun of the sun of the sun”: what is this I am saying (of God)? Surely I am asleep.
  • صد هزاران شهر را خشم شهان ** سرنگون کردست ای بد گم‌رهان
  • The wrath of the (spiritual) kings has overthrown hundreds of thousands of cities, O ye wicked who have lost the way.
  • کوه بر خود می‌شکافد صد شکاف ** آفتابی از کسوفش در شغاف 2815
  • At their beck the mountain splits on itself into a hundred fissures; a sun is (enveloped) in a veil (of darkness) through the eclipse (occultation) of him (the perfect saint).
  • خشم مردان خشک گرداند سحاب ** خشم دلها کرد عالمها خراب
  • The wrath of (holy) men makes the clouds dry; the wrath of (saintly) hearts has laid worlds waste.
  • بنگرید ای مردگان بی حنوط ** در سیاستگاه شهرستان لوط
  • Look, O ye unembalmed dead, upon the place where the city of Lot suffered punishment!
  • پیل خود چه بود که سه مرغ پران ** کوفتند آن پیلکان را استخوان
  • What is the elephant even? for three flying birds crushed the bones of those wretched elephants.
  • اضعف مرغان ابابیلست و او ** پیل را بدرید و نپذیرد رفو
  • The abábíl is the weakest of birds, and (yet) it rent the elephant irreparably.