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2026-2050

  • “Go,” cried he; “be not troubled for me; don't carve (retail) so much wisdom, O meddlesome one!”
  • گفت رو بر من تو غم خواره مباش ** بو الفضولا معرفت کمتر تراش‏
  • He answered him, (saying), “I am not your enemy: it would be a kindness if you would come after me.”
  • باز گفتش من عدوی تو نی‏ام ** لطف باشد گر بیایی در پی‏ام‏
  • “I am sleepy,” said he; “let me alone, go!” He replied, “Pray, give in to your friend,
  • گفت خوابستم مرا بگذار و رو ** گفت آخر یار را منقاد شو
  • So that you may sleep under the safeguard of a sage, under the protection of one loved (by God), a man of heart (spiritual insight).”
  • تا بخسبی در پناه عاقلی ** در جوار دوستی صاحب دلی‏
  • The man was thrown by his (the other's) earnestness into a (groundless) fancy: he became angry and quickly averted his face, 2030
  • در خیال افتاد مرد از جد او ** خشمگین شد زود گردانید رو
  • Thinking, “Mayhap this man has come to attack me—he is a murderer; or he has hope (of gain)—he is a beggar and a tout;
  • کاین مگر قصد من آمد خونی است ** یا طمع دارد گدا و تونی است‏
  • Or he has wagered with his friends that he will make me afraid of this companion.”
  • یا گرو بسته ست با یاران بدین ** که بترساند مرا زین هم نشین‏
  • From the wickedness of his heart, not (even) one good surmise came into his thoughts at all.
  • خود نیامد هیچ از خبث سرش ** یک گمان نیک اندر خاطرش‏
  • His good opinions were wholly for the bear: to be sure, he was of the same kind as the bear.
  • ظن نیکش جملگی بر خرس بود ** او مگر مر خرس را هم جنس بود
  • Through currishness, he suspected a sage and deemed a bear affectionate and just. 2035
  • عاقلی را از سگی تهمت نهاد ** خرس را دانست اهل مهر و داد
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, said to one who worshipped the (golden) calf, “Where is (what has become of) thy vain scepticism and precaution?”
  • گفتن موسی علیه السلام گوساله پرست را که آن خیال اندیشی و حزم تو کجاست‏
  • Moses said to one drunken with (deluding) fancy, “O thou who thinkest evil because of (thy) unblessedness and perdition,
  • گفت موسی با یکی مست خیال ** کای بد اندیش از شقاوت وز ضلال‏
  • Thou hast had a hundred suspicions concerning my prophethood, notwithstanding these proofs and this noble nature (which I have shown).
  • صد گمانت بود در پیغمبریم ** با چنین برهان و این خلق کریم‏
  • Thou hast seen from me hundreds of thousands of miracles, (and all the time) a hundred fancies and doubts and (vain) opinions were growing in thee.
  • صد هزاران معجزه دیدی ز من ** صد خیالت می‏فزود و شک و ظن‏
  • Thou wert sorely pressed by fancy and devilish suggestion, thou wert sneering at my prophethood.
  • از خیال و وسوسه تنگ آمدی ** طعن بر پیغمبری‏ام می‏زدی‏
  • I raised up dust from the sea before your eyes, so that ye might be delivered from the wickedness of the people of Pharaoh. 2040
  • گرد از دریا بر آوردم عیان ** تا رهیدیت از شر فرعونیان‏
  • During forty years the platter and tray (of food) came (to you) from heaven, and at my prayer the river ran from a rock.
  • ز آسمان چل سال کاسه و خوان رسید ** وز دعایم جویی از سنگی دوید
  • These (miracles) and a hundred times as many, and all these diverse (evidences), did not make that vain imagination fade away from thee, O cold (hard-hearted) man!
  • این و صد چندین و چندین گرم و سرد ** از تو ای سرد آن توهم کم نکرد
  • Through sorcery a calf lowed; (then) thou didst fall to worship, saying, ‘Thou art my God.’
  • بانگ زد گوساله‏ای از جادویی ** سجده کردی که خدای من تویی‏
  • (Then) those imaginations were swept away (as) by a flood, and thy silly shrewdness went to sleep.
  • آن توهمهات را سیلاب برد ** زیرکی باردت را خواب برد
  • How wert not thou suspicious in regard to him (Sámirí)? Why didst thou lay thy head (on the ground) like that, O ugly one? 2045
  • چون نبودی بد گمان در حق او ** چون نهادی سر چنان ای زشت رو
  • How did no idea come to thee of his imposition and of the corruptness of his fool catching magic?
  • چون خیالت نامد از تزویر او ** وز فساد سحر احمق‏گیر او
  • Who, indeed, is a Sámirí, O ye curs, that he should hew up a God in the world?
  • سامریی خود که باشد ای سگان ** که خدایی بر تراشد در جهان‏
  • How didst thou become of one mind (with him) as to this imposture of his, and become devoid of all perplexities?
  • چون در این تزویر او یکدل شدی ** وز همه اشکالها عاطل شدی‏
  • Is a cow (calf) worthy to be deified on (the strength of) a vain boast, (while there are) a hundred disputes as to the prophetic mission of one like me?
  • گاو می‏شاید خدایی را به لاف ** در رسولی‏ام تو چون کردی خلاف‏
  • Through asinine dullness thou didst cast thyself down in worship before a cow (calf); thy understanding fell a prey to Sámirí's magic. 2050
  • پیش گاوی سجده کردی از خری ** گشت عقلت صید سحر سامری‏