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1240-1264

  • He pardoned (them), and at once they became well; they were striking their heads upon the earth (prostrating themselves) in the presence of Moses. 1240
  • عفو کرد و در زمان نیکو شدند ** پیش موسی بر زمین سر می‌زدند

  • Moses said, “I pardon (you), O nobles: your bodies and souls have become unlawful to (immune from) Hell.
  • گفت موسی عفو کردم ای کرام ** گشت بر دوزخ تن و جانتان حرام

  • Verily (’tis as though) I did not see you; O (my) two friends, make yourselves strangers to (refrain from) exculpation.
  • من شما را خود ندیدم ای دو یار ** اعجمی سازید خود را ز اعتذار

  • Come, even as ye are, alien in appearance (but) familiar (in reality), to combat for the King (God).”
  • همچنان بیگانه‌شکل و آشنا ** در نبرد آیید بهر پادشا

  • Then they kissed the earth and departed: they were waiting in expectation of the time and opportunity.
  • پس زمین را بوسه دادند و شدند ** انتظار وقت و فرصت می‌بدند

  • How the magicians from the cities assembled before Pharaoh and received robes of honour and laid their hands upon their breasts, (pledging themselves) to subdue his enemy (Moses), and saying, “Write this down against us.”
  • جمع آمدن ساحران از مداین پیش فرعون و تشریفها یافتن و دست بر سینه زدن در قهر خصم او کی این بر ما نویس

  • Those magicians came unto Pharaoh, and he gave them robes of honour exceedingly precious. 1245
  • تا بفرعون آمدند آن ساحران ** دادشان تشریفهای بس گران

  • He made promises to them, and also gave them in advance slaves and horses and money and goods and provisions.
  • وعده‌هاشان کرد و پیشین هم بداد ** بندگان و اسپان و نقد و جنس و زاد

  • After that, he was saying, “Hark, O ye that are foremost (in your art), if ye prove superior in the trial,
  • بعد از آن می‌گفت هین ای سابقان ** گر فزون آیید اندر امتحان

  • I will scatter over you so many gifts that the veil of bounty and munificence will be rent.”
  • برفشانم بر شما چندان عطا ** که بدرد پرده‌ی جود و سخا

  • Then they said to him, “Through thy fortune, O King, we shall prevail, and his cause shall be ruined.
  • پس بگفتندش به اقبال تو شاه ** غالب آییم و شود کارش تباه

  • We are heroes and champions in this art: no one in the world can resist us.” 1250
  • ما درین فن صفدریم و پهلوان ** کس ندارد پای ما اندر جهان

  • The mention of Moses has become a chain (obstruction) to the thoughts (of my readers), (for they think) that these are stories (of that) which happened long ago.
  • ذکر موسی بند خاطرها شدست ** کین حکایتهاست که پیشین بدست

  • The mention of Moses serves for a mask, but the Light of Moses is thy actual concern, O good man.
  • ذکر موسی بهر روپوشست لیک ** نور موسی نقد تست ای مرد نیک

  • Moses and Pharaoh are in thy being: thou must seek these two adversaries in thyself.
  • موسی و فرعون در هستی تست ** باید این دو خصم را در خویش جست

  • The (process of) generation from Moses is (continuing) till the Resurrection: the Light is not different, (though) the lamp has become different.
  • تا قیامت هست از موسی نتاج ** نور دیگر نیست دیگر شد سراج

  • This earthenware lamp and this wick are different, but its light is not different: it is from Yonder. 1255
  • این سفال و این پلیته دیگرست ** لیک نورش نیست دیگر زان سرست

  • If thou keep looking at the glass (lantern), thou wilt be lost, because from the glass arise the numbers of (the plurality inherent in) dualism;
  • گر نظر در شیشه داری گم شوی ** زانک از شیشه‌ست اعداد دوی

  • But if thou keep thy gaze (fixed) upon the Light, thou wilt be delivered from dualism and the numbers (plurality) of the finite body.
  • ور نظر بر نور داری وا رهی ** از دوی واعداد جسم منتهی

  • From the place (object) of view, O (thou who art the) kernel of Existence, there arises the difference between the true believer and the Zoroastrian and the Jew.
  • از نظرگاهست ای مغز وجود ** اختلاف مومن و گبر و جهود

  • The disagreement as to the description and shape of the elephant.
  • اختلاف کردن در چگونگی و شکل پیل

  • The elephant was in a dark house: some Hindús had brought it for exhibition.
  • پیل اندر خانه‌ی تاریک بود ** عرضه را آورده بودندش هنود

  • In order to see it, many people were going, every one, into that darkness. 1260
  • از برای دیدنش مردم بسی ** اندر آن ظلمت همی‌شد هر کسی

  • As seeing it with the eye was impossible, (each one) was feeling it in the dark with the palm of his hand.
  • دیدنش با چشم چون ممکن نبود ** اندر آن تاریکیش کف می‌بسود

  • The hand of one fell on its trunk: he said, “This creature is like a water-pipe.”
  • آن یکی را کف به خرطوم اوفتاد ** گفت همچون ناودانست این نهاد

  • The hand of another touched its ear: to him it appeared to be like a fan.
  • آن یکی را دست بر گوشش رسید ** آن برو چون بادبیزن شد پدید

  • Since another handled its leg, he said, “I found the elephant's shape to be like a pillar.”
  • آن یکی را کف چو بر پایش بسود ** گفت شکل پیل دیدم چون عمود