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1651-1660

  • Haven't you heard that a certain sugar-lipped (story-teller) used to tell at nightfall of the perfidy of tailors,
  • تو بنشنیدی که آن پر قند لب  ** غدر خیاطان همی‌گفتی به شب 
  • Setting forth to the people old stories concerning the thievery of that class (of men)?
  • خلق را در دزدی آن طایفه  ** می‌نمود افسانه‌های سالفه 
  • To that one and this one he would relate tales of their snatching (stealing) pieces of cloth while cutting it,
  • قصه‌ی پاره‌ربایی در برین  ** می حکایت کرد او با آن و این 
  • And during the night-talk he would read aloud a book on (the tricks of) tailors, when a throng had gathered round him.
  • در سمر می‌خواند دزدی‌نامه‌ای  ** گرد او جمع آمده هنگامه‌ای 
  • Since he found eager listeners among those who came (to hear him), all parts of him had become the story (that he was telling). 1655
  • مستمع چون یافت جاذب زان وفود  ** جمله اجزااش حکایت گشته بود 
  • The Prophet, on whom be peace, said, ‘Verily God teaches wisdom by the tongues of the preachers according to the measure of the aspirations of those who hear them.’
  • قال النبی علیه السلام ان الله تعالی یلقن الحکمة علی لسان الواعظین بقدر همم المستمعین 
  • If any one have suave eloquence, hearing draws it out: the teacher's enthusiasm and energy are (derived) from the boy (whom he teaches).
  • جذب سمعست ار کسی را خوش لبیست  ** گرمی و جد معلم از صبیست 
  • When the harpist who plays the four-and-twenty (musical modes) finds no ear (to listen), his harp becomes a burden;
  • چنگیی را کو نوازد بیست و چار  ** چون نیابد گوش گردد چنگ بار 
  • Neither ditty nor ode comes into his memory: his ten fingers will not get to work.
  • نه حراره یادش آید نه غزل  ** نه ده انگشتش بجنبد در عمل 
  • If there were no ears to receive (the message from) the Unseen, no announcer (prophet) would have brought a Revelation from Heaven;
  • گر نبودی گوشهای غیب‌گیر  ** وحی ناوردی ز گردون یک بشیر 
  • And if there were no eyes to see the works of God, neither would the sky have revolved nor would the earth have smiled (been gay with verdure). 1660
  • ور نبودی دیده‌های صنع‌بین  ** نه فلک گشتی نه خندیدی زمین