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  • تو بسی کردی به دعوت لطف و جود ** آن خران را طالع و روزی نبود
  • Much kindness and favour didst thou show in calling them (to God), (but) ’twas not the fortune and provision allotted to those asses.
  • پس فرو پوشان لحاف نعمتی ** تا بردشان زود خواب غفلتی
  • Therefore let the quilt of bounty cover them, that the slumber of forgetfulness may overtake them speedily,
  • تا چو بجهند از چنین خواب این رده ** شمع مرده باشد و ساقی شده
  • So that, when this troop (of asses) shall start up from suchlike slumber, the candle will have been extinguished and the cup-bearer will have gone.
  • داشت طغیانشان ترا در حیرتی ** پس بنوشند از جزا هم حسرتی 3675
  • Their rebellious disobedience kept thee in a (great) perplexity: therefore they shall suffer in retribution a (great) sorrow,
  • تا که عدل ما قدم بیرون نهد ** در جزا هر زشت را درخور دهد
  • To the end that Our justice may step forth and bestow in retribution what is appropriate to every evil-doer;
  • که آن شهی که می‌ندیدندیش فاش ** بود با ایشان نهان اندر معاش
  • For the King, whom they were not seeing openly, was (always) with them secretly in their lives.”
  • چون خرد با تست مشرف بر تنت ** گر چه زو قاصر بود این دیدنت
  • Inasmuch as the intellect is with thee, overseeing thy body, and though this perception of thine is unable to apprehend it,
  • نیست قاصر دیدن او ای فلان ** از سکون و جنبشت در امتحان
  • (Yet) its perception, O such and such, is not unable to apprehend thy motion and rest when it tries,
  • چه عجب گر خالق آن عقل نیز ** با تو باشد چون نه‌ای تو مستجیز 3680
  • What wonder if the Creator of that intellect too is with thee? How art thou not conceding (the truth of that)?
  • از خرد غافل شود بر بد تند ** بعد آن عقلش ملامت می‌کند
  • He (some one) pays no heed to his intellect and embarks on evil; afterwards his intellect rebukes him.