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  • زانک گرگ ارچه که بس استمگریست  ** لیکش آن فرهنگ و کید و مکر نیست 
  • Because, though the wolf does great violence, yet it has not the same knowledge and craft and cunning;

  • ورنه کی اندر فتادی او به دام  ** مکر اندر آدمی باشد تمام 
  • Else how should it fall into the trap? Cunning is complete (attains to perfection) in man.

  • گفت قج با گاو و اشتر ای رفاق  ** چون چنین افتاد ما را اتفاق 
  • The ram said to the ox and the camel, “O comrades, since such a (lucky) chance has come to us,

  • هر یکی تاریخ عمر ابدا کنید  ** پیرتر اولیست باقی تن زنید  2475
  • Let each (of us) declare the date (antiquity) of his life: the oldest has the best right, let the others suffer (disappointment) in silence.

  • گفت قج مرج من اندر آن عهود  ** با قج قربان اسمعیل بود 
  • In those times,” said the ram, “my pasturage was (shared) with the ram that was sacrificed for Ismá‘íl (Ishmael).”

  • گاو گفتا بوده‌ام من سال‌خورد  ** جفت آن گاوی کش آدم جفت کرد 
  • The ox said, “I am the (most) advanced in years, (I was) coupled with the ox that Adam yoked.

  • جفت آن گاوم که آدم جد خلق  ** در زراعت بر زمین می‌کرد فلق 
  • I am the yoke-fellow of the ox with which Adam, the forefather of mankind, used to plough the earth in sowing.”

  • چون شنید از گاو و قج اشتر شگفت  ** سر فرود آورد و آن را برگرفت 
  • When the camel heard the ox and the ram (make these assertions) he was amazed: he lowered his head and picked up that (bunch of grass).

  • در هوا بر داشت آن بند قصیل  ** اشتر بختی سبک بی‌قال و قیل  2480
  • Promptly, without any palaver, the Bactrian camel raised the bunch of fresh barley in the air,

  • که مرا خود حاجت تاریخ نیست  ** کین چنین جسمی و عالی گردنیست 
  • Saying, “I, in sooth, need no (support from) chronology, since I have such a (stout) body and high neck.

  • خود همه کس داند ای جان پدر  ** که نباشم از شما من خردتر 
  • Indeed every one knows, O father's darling, that I am not smaller than you.

  • داند این را هرکه ز اصحاب نهاست  ** که نهاد من فزون‌تر از شماست 
  • Whoever is one of those possessed of intelligence knows this, that my nature is superior to yours.”

  • جملگان دانند کین چرخ بلند  ** هست صد چندان که این خاک نژند 
  • (The Christian said), “All know that this lofty heaven is a hundred times as great as this low earth.

  • کو گشاد رقعه‌های آسمان  ** کو نهاد بقعه‌های خاکدان  2485
  • How can the wide expanse of the celestial domains be compared with the (limited) character of the terrestrial regions?”

  • جواب گفتن مسلمان آنچ دید به یارانش جهود و ترسا و حسرت خوردن ایشان 
  • How the Moslem in reply told his companions, the Jew and the Christian, what he had seen (in his dream), and how they were disappointed.

  • پس مسلمان گفت ای یاران من  ** پیشم آمد مصطفی سلطان من 
  • Then the Moslem said, “O my friends, to me came Mustafá (Mohammed), my sovereign,

  • پس مرا گفت آن یکی بر طور تاخت  ** با کلیم حق و نرد عشق باخت 
  • And said to me, ‘That one (the Jew) has sped to Sinai with him (Moses) to whom God spake, and has played the game of love (with God);

  • وان دگر را عیسی صاحب‌قران  ** برد بر اوج چهارم آسمان 
  • And the other (the Christian) has been carried by Jesus, the Lord of happy star, to the zenith of the Fourth Heaven.

  • خیز ای پس مانده‌ی دیده ضرر  ** باری آن حلوا و یخنی را بخور 
  • Arise, O thou who hast been left behind and hast suffered injury, at least eat up the sweetmeat and comfit!

  • آن هنرمندان پر فن راندند  ** نامه‌ی اقبال و منصب خواندند  2490
  • Those (two) talented and accomplished men have pushed forward and have read the book of fortune and honour.

  • آن دو فاضل فضل خود در یافتند  ** با ملایک از هنر در بافتند 
  • Those two eminent men have attained to their (proper) eminence and because of their talents have mingled with the angels.

  • ای سلیم گول واپس مانده هین  ** بر جه و بر کاسه‌ی حلوا نشین 
  • Hark, O foolish simpleton who hast been left behind, jump up and seat thyself beside the bowl of halwá!’”

  • پس بگفتندش که آنگه تو حریص  ** ای عجیب خوردی ز حلوا و خبیص 
  • Thereupon they said to him, “Then, you greedy fellow, have you made a meal of the halwá and khabís? Oh, (what) an astonishing thing!”

  • گفت چون فرمود آن شاه مطاع  ** من کی بودم تا کنم زان امتناع 
  • He replied, “When that sovereign who is obeyed (by all) gave the order, who was I that I should resist it?

  • تو جهود از امر موسی سر کشی  ** گر بخواند در خوشی یا ناخوشی  2495
  • Will you, Jew, rebel against the command of Moses if he summon you (either) in a fair cause or a foul?

  • تو مسیحی هیچ از امر مسیح  ** سر توانی تافت در خیر و قبیح 
  • Can you, Christian, ever spurn the command of Christ (whether) for good or evil?