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  • Doubtless ’tis irreverence on our part, ’tis ingratitude and an act of self-will,
  • بی‌گمان ترک ادب باشد ز ما  ** کفر نعمت باشد و فعل هوا 

  • But most minds in (their) thinking are lovers of darkness, like the bat.
  • لیک اغلب هوش‌ها در افتکار  ** هم‌چو خفاشند ظلمت دوستدار 

  • If the bat eats a worm during the night, (yet it is) the Sun (that) fosters the life of the worm.
  • در شب ار خفاش کرمی می‌خورد  ** کرم را خورشید جان می‌پرورد 

  • If the bat is intoxicated with (the pleasure of eating) a worm during the night, (yet it is) by the Sun (that) the worm has been caused to move.
  • در شب ار خفاش از کرمیست مست  ** کرم از خورشید جنبنده شدست 

  • The Sun whence radiance gushes forth is giving food to his enemy. 3395
  • آفتابی که ضیا زو می‌زهد  ** دشمن خود را نواله می‌دهد 

  • But (in the case of) the royal falcon which is not a bat and whose falcon-eye is seeing truly and is clear,
  • لیک شهبازی که او خفاش نیست  ** چشم بازش راست‌بین و روشنیست 

  • If it, like the bat, seek increase (of sustenance) during the night, the Sun will rub its ear (chastise it) in correction,
  • گر به شب جوید چو خفاش او نمو  ** در ادب خورشید مالد گوش او 

  • And will say to it, “I grant that the perverse bat has an infirmity, (but) anyhow what is the matter with you?
  • گویدش گیرم که آن خفاش لد  ** علتی دارد ترا باری چه شد 

  • I will chastise you severely with affliction, in order that you may not again turn your head away from the Sun.”
  • مالشت بدهم به زجر از اکتیاب  ** تا نتابی سر دگر از آفتاب 

  • How Joseph the Siddíq (truthful witness)—the blessings of God be upon him!—was punished with imprisonment “for several years” because of his seeking help from another than God and saying (to him), “Mention me in thy lord's presence,” together with the exposition thereof.
  • ماخذه‌ی یوسف صدیق صلوات‌الله علیه به حبس بضع سنین به سبب یاری خواستن از غیر حق و گفتن اذکرنی عند ربک مع تقریره 

  • That is like Joseph's (asking help) of a (fellow-) prisoner, a needy abject groundling. 3400
  • آنچنان که یوسف از زندانیی  ** با نیازی خاضعی سعدانیی 

  • He besought him for help and said, “When you come out (of prison), your affairs will prosper with the king.
  • خواست یاری گفت چون بیرون روی  ** پیش شه گردد امورت مستوی 

  • Make mention of me before the throne of that mighty prince, that he may redeem (release) me also from this prison.”
  • یاد من کن پیش تخت آن عزیز  ** تا مرا هم وا خرد زین حبس نیز 

  • (But) how should a prisoner in captivity give release to another imprisoned man?
  • کی دهد زندانیی در اقتناص  ** مرد زندانی دیگر را خلاص 

  • All the people of this world are prisoners (waiting) in expectation of death in the abode that is passing away;
  • اهل دنیا جملگان زندانیند  ** انتظار مرگ دار فانیند 

  • Except, to be sure, in the rare case of one who is single (fardání), one whose body is in the prison (of this world) and his spirit like Saturn (in the seventh heaven). 3405
  • جز مگر نادر یکی فردانیی  ** تن بزندان جان او کیوانیی 

  • Therefore, in retribution for having regarded him (the fellow-prisoner) as a helper, Joseph was left in prison for several years.
  • پس جزای آنک دید او را معین  ** ماند یوسف حبس در بضع سنین 

  • The Devil erased from his mind the recollection of Joseph and removed from his memory those words (which Joseph had spoken).
  • یاد یوسف دیو از عقلش سترد  ** وز دلش دیو آن سخن از یاد برد 

  • In consequence of the sin which proceeded from that man of goodly qualities (Joseph), he was left in prison for several years by the (Divine) Judge,
  • زین گنه کامد از آن نیکوخصال  ** ماند در زندان ز داور چند سال 

  • Who said, “What failure was shown by the Sun of justice that thou shouldst fall, like a bat, into the blackness (of night)?
  • که چه تقصیر آمد از خورشید داد  ** تا تو چون خفاش افتی در سواد 

  • Hark, what failure was shown by the sea and the cloud that thou shouldst seek help from the sand and the mirage? 3410
  • هین چه تقصیر آمد از بحر و سحاب  ** تا تو یاری خواهی از ریگ و سراب 

  • If the vulgar are bats by nature and unreal (unspiritual), thou, at least, O Joseph, hast the eye of the falcon.
  • عام اگر خفاش طبعند و مجاز  ** یوسفا داری تو آخر چشم باز 

  • If a bat went into the blind and blue (the world of darkness and misery), (’tis no wonder, but) after all what ailed the falcon that had seen the Sultan?”
  • گر خفاشی رفت در کور و کبود  ** باز سلطان دیده را باری چه بود 

  • Therefore the (Divine) Master punished him for this sin, saying, “Do not make thy prop of rotten wood”;
  • پس ادب کردش بدین جرم اوستاد  ** که مساز از چوب پوسیده عماد 

  • But He caused Joseph to be engrossed with Him, to the end that his heart should not be pained by that imprisonment.
  • لیک یوسف را به خود مشغول کرد  ** تا نیاید در دلش زان حبس درد 

  • God gave him such intimate joy and rapture that neither the prison nor the mirk (of his dungeon) remained (visible) to him. 3415
  • آن‌چنانش انس و مستی داد حق  ** که نه زندان ماند پیشش نه غسق