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758-767

  • (If) thou become Reason, thou wilt know Reason perfectly; if thou become Love, thou wilt know Love's (flaming) wick.
  • عقل گردی عقل را دانی کمال  ** عشق گردی عشق را دانی ذبال 
  • I would declare plainly the proof of this assertion, if there were an understanding fit to receive it.
  • گفتمی برهان این دعوی مبین  ** گر بدی ادراک اندر خورد این 
  • Figs are very cheap in this vicinity, if a fig-eating bird should arrive as a guest. 760
  • هست انجیر این طرف بسیار و خوار  ** گر رسد مرغی قنق انجیرخوار 
  • (All), whether men or women, in the whole world are continually in the death-agony and are dying.
  • در همه عالم اگر مرد و زنند  ** دم به دم در نزع و اندر مردنند 
  • Regard their words as the (final) injunctions which a father gives at that moment to his son,
  • آن سخنشان را وصیتها شمر  ** که پدر گوید در آن دم با پسر 
  • That thereby consideration and pity may grow (in thy heart), so that the root of hatred and jealousy and enmity may be cut off.
  • تا بروید عبرت و رحمت بدین  ** تا ببرد بیخ بغض و رشک و کین 
  • Look on thy kinsman with that intention, so that thy heart may burn (with pity) for his death-agony.
  • تو بدان نیت نگر در اقربا  ** تا ز نزع او بسوزد دل ترا 
  • “Everything that is coming will come”: deem it (to have come) here and now, deem thy friend to be in the death-agony and in the act of losing (his life). 765
  • کل آت آت آن را نقد دان  ** دوست را در نزع و اندر فقد دان 
  • And if (selfish) motives debar (thee) from this insight, cast these motives out of thy bosom;
  • وز غرضها زین نظر گردد حجاب  ** این غرضها را برون افکن ز جیب 
  • And if thou canst not (cast them out), do not stand inertly in a state of incapacity: know that with (every) incapable there is a goodly Incapacitator.
  • ور نیاری خشک بر عجزی مه‌ایست  ** دانک با عاجز گزیده معجزیست