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2565-2589

  • بر ستیز و تسخر و افسوسشان ** شکر کن چون کرد حق محبوسشان‌‌ 2565
  • For their wrangling and sneering and scoffing? Give thanks, since God has imprisoned (restrained) them.
  • دستشان کژ پایشان کژ چشم کژ ** مهرشان کژ صلح‌‌شان کژ خشم کژ
  • Their hands are perverse, their feet perverse, their eyes perverse, their love perverse, their peace perverse, their anger perverse.”
  • از پی تقلید و معقولات نقل ** پا نهاده بر جمال پیر عقل‌‌
  • For the sake of blind conformity and (for the sake of following) traditional ideas, they set their feet (trampled) on the camels of Reason, this venerable Guide.
  • پیر خر نی جمله گشته پیر خر ** از ریای چشم و گوش همدگر
  • They were not eager for a guide (pír-khar): they all had become (like) an old donkey (pír khar) from paying hypocritical observance to each other's eyes and ears.
  • از بهشت آورد یزدان بردگان ** تا نمایدشان سقر پروردگان‌‌
  • God brought the (devout) worshippers from Paradise that He might show unto them the nurslings of Hell-fire.
  • در معنی آن که مرج البحرين يلتقیان بينهما برزخ لا يبغیان
  • On the meaning of “He let the two seas go to meet one another: between them is a barrier which they do not seek (to cross).”
  • اهل نار و خلد را بین هم دکان ** در میانشان برزخ لا یبغیان‌‌ 2570
  • Behold the people of (destined for) the Fire and those of Paradise dwelling in the same shop, (yet) between them is a barrier which they do not seek to cross.
  • اهل نار و اهل نور آمیخته ** در میانشان کوه قاف انگیخته‌‌
  • He hath mixed the people of the Fire and the people of the Light: between them He hath reared the mountain of Qáf.
  • همچو در کان خاک و زر کرد اختلاط ** در میانشان صد بیابان و رباط
  • He hath mixed (them) like earth and gold in the mine: between them are a hundred deserts and caravanserays.
  • همچنان که عقد در در و شبه ** مختلط چون میهمان یک شبه‌‌
  • (They are) mixed even as pearls and jet beads in the necklace, (soon to be parted) like guests of a single night.
  • بحر را نیمیش شیرین چون شکر ** طعم شیرین رنگ روشن چون قمر
  • One half of the sea is sweet like sugar: the taste sweet, the colour bright as the moon.
  • نیم دیگر تلخ همچون زهر مار ** طمع تلخ و رنگ مظلم قیروار 2575
  • The other half is bitter as snake's venom: the taste bitter and the colour dark as pitch.
  • هر دو بر هم می‌‌زنند از تحت و اوج ** بر مثال آب دریا موج موج‌‌
  • Both (halves) dash against one another, from beneath and from the top, wave on wave like the water of the sea.
  • صورت بر هم زدن از جسم تنگ ** اختلاط جانها در صلح و جنگ‌‌
  • The appearance of collision, (arising) from the narrow body, is (due to) the spirits' being intermingled in peace or war.
  • موجهای صلح بر هم می‌‌زند ** کینه‌‌ها از سینه‌‌ها بر می‌‌کند
  • The waves of peace dash against each other and root up hatreds from (men's) breasts.
  • موجهای جنگ بر شکل دگر ** مهرها را می‌‌کند زیر و زبر
  • In other form do the waves of war turn (men's) loves upside down (confound and destroy them).
  • مهر تلخان را به شیرین می‌‌کشد ** ز آن که اصل مهرها باشد رشد 2580
  • Love is drawing the bitter ones to the sweet, because the foundation of (all) loves is righteousness.
  • قهر شیرین را به تلخی می‌‌برد ** تلخ با شیرین کجا اندر خورد
  • Wrath is carrying away the sweet one to bitterness: how should the bitter sort with (be suited to) the sweet?
  • تلخ و شیرین زین نظر ناید پدید ** از دریچه‌‌ی عاقبت دانند دید
  • The bitter and the sweet are not visible to this (ocular) sight, (but) they can be seen through the window of the latter end.
  • چشم آخر بین تواند دید راست ** چشم آخر بین غرور است و خطاست‌‌
  • The eye that sees the end (ákhir) can see truly; the eye that sees (only) the stable (ákhur) is delusion and error.
  • ای بسا شیرین که چون شکر بود ** لیک زهر اندر شکر مضمر بود
  • Oh, many the one that is sweet as sugar, but poison is concealed in the sugar.
  • آن که زیرک‌‌تر به بو بشناسدش ** و آن دگر چون بر لب و دندان زدش‌‌ 2585
  • He that is more sagacious (than the rest) will know it by the smell; another (only) when it touches his lips and teeth:
  • پس لبش ردش کند پیش از گلو ** گر چه نعره می‌‌زند شیطان کلوا
  • Then his lips will reject it before (it reaches) his throat, although the Devil is shouting, “Eat ye!”
  • و آن دگر را در گلو پیدا کند ** و آن دگر را در بدن رسوا کند
  • And to another it will declare (itself) in his throat, while to another it will unmask in his body;
  • و آن دگر را در حدث سوزش دهد ** ذوق آن زخم جگر دوزش دهد
  • And to another it will give burning pain in evacuation: its taste will deal him a blow that pierces his liver.
  • و آن دگر را بعد ایام و شهور ** و آن دگر را بعد مرگ از قعر گور
  • And to another (it will become manifest) after days and months; and to another after death, from the depth of the grave;