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1702-1711

  • Know (distinguish) the natural cry from the artificial one, (know) the crown of kings from the crown (crest) of hoopoes.
  • بانگ بر رسته ز بر بسته بدان ** تاج شاهان را ز تاج هدهدان
  • These shameless persons have attached to their tongues the speech of dervishes and the deep sayings of gnostics.
  • حرف درویشان و نکته‌ی عارفان ** بسته‌اند این بی‌حیایان بر زبان
  • Every destruction of an olden people that there was—(it was) because they deemed sandal-wood to be (common) wood.
  • هر هلاک امت پیشین که بود ** زانک چندل را گمان بردند عود
  • They had the discernment that should make that (difference) evident, but greed and cupidity make (men) blind and deaf. 1705
  • بودشان تمییز کان مظهر کند ** لیک حرص و آز کور و کر کند
  • The blindness of the (physically) blind is not far from (the Divine) mercy; ’tis the blindness of greed that is inexcusable.
  • کوری کوران ز رحمت دور نیست ** کوری حرص است که آن معذور نیست
  • Crucifixion (tribulation) inflicted by the King (God) is not far from mercy; the crucifixion (torment) of envy is not forgiven (by God).
  • چارمیخ شه ز رحمت دور نی ** چار میخ حاسدی مغفور نی
  • O fish, regard the end; do not regard the hook: evil appetite has bandaged (blindfolded) thine eye that sees the end.
  • ماهیا آخر نگر بنگر بشست ** بدگلویی چشم آخربینت بست
  • See the beginning and the end with both eyes: beware, do not be one-eyed like the accursed Iblís.
  • با دو دیده اول و آخر ببین ** هین مباش اعور چو ابلیس لعین
  • The one-eyed man is he who saw only the present—ignorant, like the beasts, of (what comes) after. 1710
  • اعور آن باشد که حالی دید و بس ** چون بهایم بی‌خبر از بازپس
  • Since the two eyes of an ox are (rated) as one eye (of a man) in (the case of) damages for (their) destruction—for it (the ox) hath no excellence—
  • چون دو چشم گاو در جرم تلف ** هم‌چو یک چشمست کش نبود شرف