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  • هش چه باشد عقل کل هوشمند ** هوش جزوی هش بود اما نژند 3310
  • What is Reason? The Universal Intelligence of the man (prophet or saint) endowed with reason. Partial reason is reason (too), but it is infirm.
  • جمله حیوانات وحشی ز آدمی ** باشد از حیوان انسی در کمی‌‌
  • All the animals that are wild (unfriendly) to man are inferior to the human animal.
  • خون آنها خلق را باشد سبیل ** ز انکه وحشی‌‌اند از عقل جلیل‌‌
  • Their blood is free to mankind, since they are estranged from the august Reason.
  • عزت وحشی بدین افتاد پست ** که مر انسان را مخالف آمده ست‌‌
  • The honour of the wild animals is fallen low (has come to be of no account) because they have grown hostile to man.
  • پس چه عزت باشدت ای نادره ** چون شدی تو حمر مستنفرة
  • What honour, then, will be thine, O marvel (of folly), since thou hast become (like) timorous wild asses?
  • خر نشاید کشت از بهر صلاح ** چون شود وحشی شود خونش مباح‌‌ 3315
  • Because of his usefulness, the (domesticated) ass ought not to be killed; (but) when he turns wild, his blood becomes lawful.
  • گر چه خر را دانش زاجر نبود ** هیچ معذورش نمی‌‌دارد ودود
  • Although the ass had no knowledge to restrain him (from becoming wild), the Loving One is not excusing him at all.
  • پس چو وحشی شد از آن دم آدمی ** کی بود معذور ای یار سمی‌‌
  • How, then, shall man be excused, O noble friend, when he has become wild (refractory and hostile) to that Word (the voice of Reason)?
  • لاجرم کفار را شد خون مباح ** همچو وحشی پیش نشاب و رماح‌‌
  • Of necessity permission was given to shed the blood of the infidels, like (that of) a wild beast before the arrows and lances.
  • جفت و فرزندانشان جمله سبیل ** ز آنکه بی‌‌عقلند و مردود و ذلیل‌‌
  • All their wives and children are free spoil, since they are irrational and reprobate and base.