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2789-2798

  • Go now, continue to catch flies as far as you can: invite the flies to (partake of) some buttermilk;
  • رو مگس می‏گیر تا تانی هلا ** سوی دوغی زن مگسها را صلا
  • And if you call (them) to honey, that too will certainly be lies and buttermilk (fraud). 2790
  • ور بخوانی تو به سوی انگبین ** هم دروغ و دوغ باشد آن یقین‏
  • You awakened me, (but) it (that awakenment) was (really) slumber: you showed (me) a ship, (but) that was (really) a whirlpool.
  • تو مرا بیدار کردی خواب بود ** تو نمودی کشتی آن گرداب بود
  • You were calling me to good for the purpose that you might drive me away from the better good.”
  • تو مرا در خیر ز آن می‏خواندی ** تا مرا از خیر بهتر راندی‏
  • How a thief escaped because some one gave the alarm to the master of the house, who had nearly overtaken and caught the thief.
  • فوت شدن دزد به آواز دادن آن شخص صاحب خانه را که نزدیک آمده بود که دزد را دریابد و بگیرد
  • This (behaviour of Iblís) is like that (which is told in the following story), how a certain man saw a thief in the house and ran after him.
  • این بدان ماند که شخصی دزد دید ** در وثاق اندر پی او می‏دوید
  • He ran after him (the length of) two or three fields, till the fatigue threw him into a sweat.
  • تا دو سه میدان دوید اندر پیش ** تا در افگند آن تعب اندر خویش‏
  • At the moment when, rushing on, he had come so near to him that he might spring upon him and seize him, 2795
  • اندر آن حمله که نزدیک آمدش ** تا بدو اندر جهد دریابدش‏
  • The second thief cried out to him, “Come, that you may see these signs of calamity.
  • دزد دیگر بانگ کردش که بیا ** تا ببینی این علامات بلا
  • Be quick and turn back, O man of (prompt) action, that you may see (how) very pitiable (is) the state of things here.”
  • زود باش و باز گرد ای مرد کار ** تا ببینی حال اینجا زار زار
  • He (the householder) said (to himself), “Maybe a thief is yonder: if I do not return at once, this (fate) will befall me.
  • گفت باشد کان طرف دزدی بود ** گر نگردم زود این بر من رود