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4005-4014

  • But may the soul's pasture be the ransom for his (Love's) lion who is killed by this Love and his scimitar! 4005
  • لیک مرج جان فدای شیر او  ** کش کشد این عشق و این شمشیر او 
  • (’Tis) a killing better than a thousand lives: (all) sovereignties are mortally enamoured of this servitude.
  • کشتنی به از هزاران زندگی  ** سلطنت‌ها مرده‌ی این بندگی 
  • They (the princes) were telling each other their secrets allusively in low tones with a hundred fears and precautions.
  • با کنایت رازها با هم‌دگر  ** پست گفتندی به صد خوف و حذر 
  • None but God was the confidant of their secret, their sighs were breathed to Heaven alone.
  • راز را غیر خدا محرم نبود  ** آه را جز آسمان هم‌دم نبود 
  • They were using certain mystical terms among themselves in order to convey information.
  • اصطلاحاتی میان هم‌دگر  ** داشتندی بهر ایراد خبر 
  • The vulgar have learned this birds' language and (by means of it) have acquired prestige and authority. 4010
  • زین لسان الطیر عام آموختند  ** طمطراق و سروری اندوختند 
  • That terminology is (only) the image (imitation) of the bird's voice: the uninitiated man is ignorant of the (inward) state of the birds.
  • صورت آواز مرغست آن کلام  ** غافلست از حال مرغان مرد خام 
  • Where is the Solomon who knows the birds' song? The demon, though he seize the kingdom (of Solomon), is an alien.
  • کو سلیمانی که داند لحن طیر  ** دیو گرچه ملک گیرد هست غیر 
  • The demon in the likeness of Solomon stood (in Solomon's place): he knows how to deceive, but he does not possess (the knowledge denoted by the words) we have been taught.
  • دیو بر شبه سلیمان کرد ایست  ** علم مکرش هست و علمناش نیست 
  • Inasmuch as Solomon was rejoiced exceedingly by (the favour of) God, he had a birds' language (derived) from we have been taught.
  • چون سلیمان از خدا بشاش بود  ** منطق الطیری ز علمناش بود