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2479-2488

  • When the camel heard the ox and the ram (make these assertions) he was amazed: he lowered his head and picked up that (bunch of grass).
  • چون شنید از گاو و قج اشتر شگفت  ** سر فرود آورد و آن را برگرفت 
  • Promptly, without any palaver, the Bactrian camel raised the bunch of fresh barley in the air, 2480
  • در هوا بر داشت آن بند قصیل  ** اشتر بختی سبک بی‌قال و قیل 
  • Saying, “I, in sooth, need no (support from) chronology, since I have such a (stout) body and high neck.
  • که مرا خود حاجت تاریخ نیست  ** کین چنین جسمی و عالی گردنیست 
  • Indeed every one knows, O father's darling, that I am not smaller than you.
  • خود همه کس داند ای جان پدر  ** که نباشم از شما من خردتر 
  • Whoever is one of those possessed of intelligence knows this, that my nature is superior to yours.”
  • داند این را هرکه ز اصحاب نهاست  ** که نهاد من فزون‌تر از شماست 
  • (The Christian said), “All know that this lofty heaven is a hundred times as great as this low earth.
  • جملگان دانند کین چرخ بلند  ** هست صد چندان که این خاک نژند 
  • How can the wide expanse of the celestial domains be compared with the (limited) character of the terrestrial regions?” 2485
  • کو گشاد رقعه‌های آسمان  ** کو نهاد بقعه‌های خاکدان 
  • How the Moslem in reply told his companions, the Jew and the Christian, what he had seen (in his dream), and how they were disappointed.
  • جواب گفتن مسلمان آنچ دید به یارانش جهود و ترسا و حسرت خوردن ایشان 
  • Then the Moslem said, “O my friends, to me came Mustafá (Mohammed), my sovereign,
  • پس مسلمان گفت ای یاران من  ** پیشم آمد مصطفی سلطان من 
  • And said to me, ‘That one (the Jew) has sped to Sinai with him (Moses) to whom God spake, and has played the game of love (with God);
  • پس مرا گفت آن یکی بر طور تاخت  ** با کلیم حق و نرد عشق باخت 
  • And the other (the Christian) has been carried by Jesus, the Lord of happy star, to the zenith of the Fourth Heaven.
  • وان دگر را عیسی صاحب‌قران  ** برد بر اوج چهارم آسمان