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3078-3087

  • (One who shall say), “I will not look at the two worlds until I see to whom these two assembly-places (really) belong.
  • من نخواهم در دو عالم بنگریست ** تا نبینم این دو مجلس آن کیست‏
  • If I eat bread without the view of God's attributes, it will stick in my throat.”
  • بی‏تماشای صفتهای خدا ** گر خورم نان در گلو ماند مرا
  • How should a morsel digest without the sight of Him, without the view of His roses and rose-garden? 3080
  • چون گوارد لقمه بی‏دیدار او ** بی‏تماشای گل و گلزار او
  • Save in hope of God, who but an ox or ass would for one moment partake of this food and drink?
  • جز بر امید خدا زین آب خور ** کی خورد یک لحظه الا گاو و خر
  • (Who but) he that was like the cattle, nay, more lost?—though (indeed) that stinkard is full of cunning.
  • آن که کالانعام بد بل هم اضل ** گر چه پر مکر است آن گنده بغل‏
  • His cunning went headlong (to ruin), and he went headlong: he passed a little while, and his day set.
  • مکر او سر زیر و او سر زیر شد ** روزگاری برد و روزش دیر شد
  • His brain became dull, his mind doting: his life is gone—and like (the letter) alif he hath nothing.
  • فکرگاهش کند شد عقلش خرف ** عمر شد چیزی ندارد چون الف‏
  • (As for) his saying, “I am thinking about it”—that too is only (part) of the deceit of the fleshly soul; 3085
  • آن چه می‏گوید در این اندیشه‏ام ** آن هم از دستان آن نفس است هم‏
  • And (as for) his saying, “He (God) is forgiving and merciful” —that is naught but a trick of the villainous flesh.
  • و انچه می‏گوید غفور است و رحیم ** نیست آن جز حیله‏ی نفس لئیم‏
  • O thou that art dead with anxiety because thy hands are empty of bread, what is this fear, since He is forgiving and merciful?
  • ای ز غم مرده که دست از نان تهی است ** چون غفور است و رحیم این ترس چیست‏
  • How an old man complained of his ailments to a doctor, and how the doctor answered him.
  • شکایت گفتن پیر مردی به طبیب از رنجوریها و جواب گفتن طبیب او را