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2590-2599

  • Violence is not the means of averting calamity: the means is beneficence and pardon and kindness. 2590
  • چاره‌ی دفع بلا نبود ستم  ** چاره احسان باشد و عفو و کرم 
  • He (the Prophet) said, ‘Alms is a means of averting calamity: cure thy diseased ones by (giving) alms, O youth.’
  • گفت الصدقه مرد للبلا  ** داو مرضاک به صدقه یا فتی 
  • ’Tis not alms-giving to burn a poor man (in the fire of anger) and to blind the eye that meditates on forbearance.”
  • صدقه نبود سوختن درویش را  ** کور کردن چشم حلم‌اندیش را 
  • The king replied, “Charity and the occasion for it are excellent (things), but (only) when you perform an act of charity in its (proper) place.
  • گفت شه نیکوست خیر و موقعش  ** لیک چون خیری کنی در موضعش 
  • (If) you put the king in the rook's place, ’tis ruin (to the game); likewise, (if you put) the horse (knight) in the king's place, ’tis the act of an ignoramus.
  • موضع رخ شه نهی ویرانیست  ** موضع شه اسپ هم نادانیست 
  • Both bounty and severity are (sanctioned) in the religious Law: (’tis) for the king (to sit on) the throne, (’tis) for the horse (to stand at) the gate. 2595
  • در شریعت هم عطا هم زجر هست  ** شاه را صدر و فرس را درگه است 
  • What is justice? To put (a thing) in its (right) place. What is injustice? To put it in its wrong place.
  • عدل چه بود وضع اندر موضعش  ** ظلم چه بود وضع در ناموقعش 
  • Nothing is vain that God created, (whether it be) anger or forbearance or sincere counsel or guile.
  • نیست باطل هر چه یزدان آفرید  ** از غضب وز حلم وز نصح و مکید 
  • None of these things is absolutely good, nor is any of them absolutely evil.
  • خیر مطلق نیست زینها هیچ چیز  ** شر مطلق نیست زینها هیچ نیز 
  • The usefulness and harm of each depend on the place (occasion): for this reason knowledge is necessary and useful.
  • نفع و ضر هر یکی از موضعست  ** علم ازین رو واجبست و نافعست