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2724-2748

  • حبک الأشیاء یعمیک یصم ** نفسک السودا جنت لا تختصم‏
  • Your love of (sensual) things makes you blind and deaf; your black fleshly soul is the culprit: do not quarrel (with others).
  • تو گنه بر من منه کژ مژ مبین ** من ز بد بیزارم و از حرص و کین‏ 2725
  • Do not put the guilt on me, do not see upside down. I am averse to evil and greed and enmity.
  • من بدی کردم پشیمانم هنوز ** انتظارم تا شبم آید به روز
  • I did an evil deed and am still repenting: I am waiting that my night may turn to day.
  • متهم گشتم میان خلق من ** فعل خود بر من نهد هر مرد و زن‏
  • I have become suspect amongst mankind: every man and woman lay their (evil) actions on me (at my door).
  • گرگ بی‏چاره اگر چه گرسنه است ** متهم باشد که او در طنطنه است‏
  • The helpless wolf, though he is hungry, is suspected of being in luxury.
  • از ضعیفی چون نتاند راه رفت ** خلق گوید تخمه است از لوت زفت‏
  • When, because of feebleness, he cannot go his way, people say it is indigestion (arising) from gross (rich and heavy) food.”
  • باز الحاح کردن معاویه ابلیس را
  • How Mu‘áwiya once more pressed Iblís hard.
  • گفت غیر راستی نرهاندت ** داد سوی راستی می‏خواندت‏ 2730
  • He said, “Nothing but the truth will save you: justice is calling you to (speak) the truth.
  • راست گو تا وارهی از چنگ من ** مکر ننشاند غبار جنگ من‏
  • Tell the truth, so that you may be delivered from my hand: cunning will not lay the dust of my war (will not induce me to leave you in peace).”
  • گفت چون دانی دروغ و راست را ** ای خیال‏اندیش پر اندیشه‏ها
  • He (Iblís) said, “How do you know (the difference between) falsehood and truth, O thinker of vain fancies, (you that are) filled with (idle) thoughts (about me)?”
  • گفت پیغمبر نشانی داده است ** قلب و نیکو را محک بنهاده است‏
  • He answered, “The Prophet has given an indication: he has laid down the touchstone (criterion) for (distinguishing) the base coin and the good.
  • گفته است الکذب ریب فی القلوب ** گفت الصدق طمانین طروب‏
  • He has said, ‘Falsehood is (the cause of) disquiet in (men's) hearts’; he has said, ‘Truth is (the cause of) a joyous tranquillity.’
  • دل نیارامد ز گفتار دروغ ** آب و روغن هیچ نفروزد فروغ‏ 2735
  • The (troubled) heart is not comforted by lying words: water and oil kindle no light.
  • در حدیث راست آرام دل است ** راستیها دانه‏ی دام دل است‏
  • (Only) in truthful speech is there comfort for the heart: truths are the bait that entraps the heart.
  • دل مگر رنجور باشد بد دهان ** که نداند چاشنی این و آن‏
  • Sick, surely, and ill-savoured is the heart that knows not (cannot distinguish) the taste of this and that.
  • چون شود از رنج و علت دل سلیم ** طعم کذب و راست را باشد علیم‏
  • When the heart becomes whole (is healed) of pain and disease, it will recognize the flavour of falsehood and truth.
  • حرص آدم چون سوی گندم فزود ** از دل آدم سلیمی را ربود
  • When Adam's greed for the wheat waxed great, it robbed Adam's heart of health.
  • پس دروغ و عشوه‏ات را گوش کرد ** غره گشت و زهر قاتل نوش کرد 2740
  • Then he gave ear to your lies and enticements: he was befooled and drank the killing poison.
  • کژدم از گندم ندانست آن نفس ** می‏پرد تمییز از مست هوس‏
  • At that moment he knew not scorpion (kazhdum) from wheat (gandum): discernment flies from one that is drunken with vain desire.
  • خلق مست آرزویند و هوا ** ز آن پذیرایند دستان ترا
  • The people are drunken with cupidity and desire: hence they are accepting your cheatery.
  • هر که خود را از هوا خود باز کرد ** چشم خود را آشنای راز کرد
  • Whoever has rid his nature of vain desire has (thereby) made his (spiritual) eye familiar with the secret.
  • شکایت قاضی از آفت قضا و جواب گفتن نایب او را
  • How a cadi complained of the calamity of (holding) the office of cadi, and how his deputy answered him.
  • قاضیی بنشاندند او می‏گریست ** گفت نایب قاضیا گریه ز چیست‏
  • They installed a cadi, (and meanwhile) he wept. The deputy said, ‘O cadi, what are you weeping for?
  • این نه وقت گریه و فریاد تست ** وقت شادی و مبارک باد تست‏ 2745
  • This is not the time for you to weep and lament: it is the time for you to rejoice and receive felicitations.’
  • گفت اه چون حکم راند بی‏دلی ** در میان آن دو عالم جاهلی‏
  • ‘Ah,’ said he, ‘how shall a man without insight pronounce judgement—an ignorant man (decide) between two who know?
  • آن دو خصم از واقعه‏ی خود واقفند ** قاضی مسکین چه داند ز آن دو بند
  • Those two adversaries are acquainted with their own case: what should the poor cadi know of those two tangles?
  • جاهل است و غافل است از حالشان ** چون رود در خونشان و مالشان‏
  • He is ignorant and unaware of their (real) state: how should he proceed (to give judgment) concerning their lives and property?’