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2129-2138

  • The stone made powder of the sleeping man’s face, and published to the whole world this adage––.
  • سنگ روی خفته را خشخاش کرد ** این مثل بر جمله عالم فاش کرد

  • “The love of a fool is for sure the love of a bear: his hate is love and his love is hate.” 2130
  • مهر ابله مهر خرس آمد یقین ** کین او مهر است و مهر اوست کین‏

  • His promise is infirm and corrupt and feeble; his word stout and his performance lean.
  • عهد او سست است و ویران و ضعیف ** گفت او زفت و وفای او نحیف‏

  • Do not believe him, even if he take an oath: the man whose speech is false will break his oath.
  • گر خورد سوگند هم باور مکن ** بشکند سوگند، مرد کژ سخن‏

  • Inasmuch as, without the oath, his word was a lie, do not be entrapped by his deceit and oath.
  • چون که بی‏سوگند گفتش بد دروغ ** تو میفت از مکر و سوگندش به دوغ‏

  • His fleshly soul is in command, and his intellect captive; even suppose that he has sworn on a hundred thousand Qur’áns,
  • نفس او میر است و عقل او اسیر ** صد هزاران مصحفش خود خورده‏گیر

  • (Yet), since without (taking) an oath he will break his pact- if he take an oath, he will break that too; 2135
  • چون که بی‏سوگند پیمان بشکند ** گر خورد سوگند هم آن بشکند

  • Because the fleshly soul becomes (all) the more infuriated by your binding it with a heavy oath.
  • ز آن که نفس آشفته‏تر گردد از آن ** که کنی بندش به سوگند گران‏

  • When a captive puts bonds upon a governor, the governor will burst them and leap out;
  • چون اسیری بند بر حاکم نهد ** حاکم آن را بر درد بیرون جهد

  • He will bang those bonds on his (the captive’s) head in wrath, dashing the oath in his face.
  • بر سرش کوبد ز خشم آن بند را ** می‏زند بر روی او سوگند را