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280-289

  • Look at the trays in front of druggists—each kind put beside its own kind, 280
  • طبله‏ها در پیش عطاران ببین ** جنس را با جنس خود کرده قرین‏

  • Things of each sort mixed with things of the same sort, and a certain elegance produced by this homogeneity;
  • جنسها با جنسها آمیخته ** زین تجانس زینتی انگیخته‏

  • If his (the druggist's) aloes-wood and sugar get mixed, he picks them out from each other, piece by piece.
  • گر در آمیزند عود و شکرش ** بر گزیند یک یک از یکدیگرش‏

  • The trays were broken and the souls were spilled: good and evil ones were mingled with each other.
  • طبله‏ها بشکست و جانها ریختند ** نیک و بد در همدگر آمیختند

  • God sent the prophets with scrolls (of Revelation), that He might pick out (and sort) these grains on the dish.
  • حق فرستاد انبیا را با ورق ** تا گزید این دانه‏ها را بر طبق‏

  • Before the, (the prophets) we were all alike, none knew whether we were good or bad. 285
  • پیش از ایشان ما همه یکسان بدیم ** کس ندانستی که ما نیک و بدیم‏

  • False coin and fine (both) were current in the world, since all was night, and we were as night-travellers,
  • قلب و نیکو در جهان بودی روان ** چون همه شب بود و ما چون شب روان‏

  • Until the sun of the prophets rose and said, “Begone, O alloy! Come, O thou that art pure!”
  • تا بر آمد آفتاب انبیا ** گفت ای غش دور شو صافی بیا

  • The eye can distinguish colours, the eye knows ruby and (common) stone.
  • چشم داند فرق کردن رنگ را ** چشم داند لعل را و سنگ را

  • The eye knows the jewel and the rubbish; hence bits of rubbish sting the eye.
  • چشم داند گوهر و خاشاک را ** چشم را ز آن می‏خلد خاشاکها