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5
393-402

  • This is the account of the bent (grovelling) duck, which is greed: learn of Khalíl (Abraham) that the duck ought to be killed.
  • این بیان بط حرص منثنیست  ** از خلیل آموز که آن بط کشتنیست 
  • In the duck there is much good and evil besides this, (but) I am afraid of missing other (more important) topics of discourse.
  • هست در بط غیر این بس خیر و شر  ** ترسم از فوت سخنهای دگر 
  • Description of the Peacock and its nature, and the cause of its being killed by Abraham, on whom be peace.
  • صفت طاوس و طبع او و سبب کشتن ابراهیم علیه‌السلام او را 
  • Now we come to the two-coloured (double-faced) peacock, who displays himself for the sake of name and fame. 395
  • آمدیم اکنون به طاوس دورنگ  ** کو کند جلوه برای نام و ننگ 
  • His desire is to catch people: he is ignorant of good and evil and of the result and use of that (catching).
  • همت او صید خلق از خیر و شر  ** وز نتیجه و فایده‌ی آن بی‌خبر 
  • He catches his prey ignorantly, like a trap: what knowledge has the trap concerning the purpose of its action?
  • بی‌خبر چون دام می‌گیرد شکار  ** دام را چه علم از مقصود کار 
  • What harm (comes) to the trap, or what benefit, from catching (its prey)? I wonder at its idle catching.
  • دام را چه ضر و چه نفع از گرفت  ** زین گرفت بیهده‌ش دارم شگفت 
  • O brother, thou hast uplifted thy friends with two hundred marks of affection, and (then) abandoned (them).
  • ای برادر دوستان افراشتی  ** با دو صد دلداری و بگذاشتی 
  • This has been thy business from the hour of (thy) birth: to catch people with the trap of love. 400
  • کارت این بودست از وقت ولاد  ** صید مردم کردن از دام وداد 
  • From that pursuit (of people) and throng (of friends) and vainglory and self existence wilt thou get any warp or woof? Try and see!
  • زان شکار و انبهی و باد و بود  ** دست در کن هیچ یابی تار و پود 
  • Most (of thy life) is gone and the day is late; (yet) thou art still busy in pursuit of people.
  • بیشتر رفتست و بیگاهست روز  ** تو به جد در صید خلقانی هنوز