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  • If you tether an ox in a stall and then find an ass in the place of the ox, 3680
  • گر ببندی در صطبلی گاو نر  ** باز یابی در مقام گاو خر 
  • ’Twould be asinine carelessness, like (that of) a man in slumber, not to inquire who is the secret agent (that has effected the substitution).
  • از خری باشد تغافل خفته‌وار  ** که نجویی تا کیست آن خفیه کار 
  • (Yet) you never said, “Let me see who this changer is: he is not visible; surely, he is a celestial being.”
  • خود نگفته این مبدل تا کیست  ** نیست پیدا او مگر افلاکیست 
  • You have shot an arrow to the right and have seen your arrow go to the left.
  • تیر سوی راست پرانیده‌ای  ** سوی چپ رفتست تیرت دیده‌ای 
  • You have ridden in chase of a deer and have made yourself the prey of a hog.
  • سوی آهویی به صیدی تاختی  ** خویش را تو صید خوکی ساختی 
  • You have run after some gain for the purpose of stuffing yourself: the gain has not reached (you) and you have been cast into prison. 3685
  • در پی سودی دویده بهر کبس  ** نارسیده سود افتاده به حبس 
  • You have dug pits for others and have seen yourself fall into them.
  • چاهها کنده برای دیگران  ** خویش را دیده فتاده اندر آن 
  • Since the Lord has disappointed you in regard to the means (of obtaining your desire), then why do not you become suspicious of the means?
  • در سبب چون بی‌مرادت کرد رب  ** پس چرا بدظن نگردی در سبب 
  • Many a one has become an emperor by dint of toil, while (many) another has been made destitute by that (same) toil.
  • بس کسی از مکسبی خاقان شده  ** دیگری زان مکسبه عریان شده 
  • Many a one has been made (rich as) Qárún by marriage, and many a one has been made bankrupt by marriage.
  • بس کس از عقد زنان قارون شده  ** بس کس از عقد زنان مدیون شده 
  • The means, then, is turning about, like the tail of an ass: ’tis better not to rely upon it. 3690
  • پس سبب گردان چو دم خر بود  ** تکیه بر وی کم کنی بهتر بود 
  • And if you take the means, you should not take it boldly, for beneath it there are many hidden banes.
  • ور سبب گیری نگیری هم دلیر  ** که بس آفت‌هاست پنهانش به زیر 
  • This prudence and precaution is the gist of the saving clause, for this (Divine) decree (often) makes the ass appear to be a goat.
  • سر استثناست این حزم و حذر  ** زانک خر را بز نماید این قدر 
  • Although he whose eye it (the Divine decree) has bandaged is clever, (yet) because of his seeing double, in his eyes the ass is a goat.
  • آنک چشمش بست گرچه گربزست  ** ز احولی اندر دو چشمش خربزست 
  • Since God is the Turner of eyes, who (else) should turn the heart and the thoughts?
  • چون مقلب حق بود ابصار را  ** که بگرداند دل و افکار را 
  • (Hence) you deem a pit to be a pleasant house, you deem a trap to be a dainty bait. 3695
  • چاه را تو خانه‌ای بینی لطیف  ** دام را تو دانه‌ای بینی ظریف 
  • This is not sophistry (scepticism), it is God's turning: it shows where the realities are.
  • این تفسطط نیست تقلیب خداست  ** می‌نماید که حقیقتها کجاست 
  • He who denies the realities is wholly involved in a phantasy.
  • آنک انکار حقایق می‌کند  ** جملگی او بر خیالی می‌تند 
  • He does not say (to himself), “Thy thinking (that all is) phantasy (illusion) is also a phantasy: rub an eye (and see)!”
  • او نمی‌گوید که حسبان خیال  ** هم خیالی باشدت چشمی به مال 
  • How the Sultan's sons went to the forbidden fortress, inasmuch as man eagerly covets that which he is refused—“We rendered our service, but thy evil nature could not buy the servant (could not profit by the service that we rendered).” They trod all their father's injunctions and counsels underfoot, so that they fell into the pit of tribulation, and their reproachful souls (consciences) were saying to them, “Did not a warner come to you?” while they, weeping and contrite, replied, “If we had been wont to hearken or understand we should not have been among those who dwell in the flaming Fire.”
  • رفتن پسران سلطان به حکم آنک الانسان حریص علی ما منع ما بندگی خویش نمودیم ولیکن خوی بد تو بنده ندانست خریدن به سوی آن قلعه‌ی ممنوع عنه آن همه وصیت‌ها و اندرزهای پدر را زیر پا نهادند تا در چاه بلا افتادند و می‌گفتند ایشان را نفوس لوامه الم یاتکم نذیر ایشان می‌گفتند گریان و پشیمان لوکنا نسمع او نعقل ماکنا فی اصحاب السعیر 
  • This discourse hath no end. The party (of travellers) took their way to seek that castle.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد آن فریق  ** بر گرفتند از پی آن دز طریق 
  • They approached the tree of the forbidden fruit, they went forth from the file of the sincere. 3700
  • بر درخت گندم منهی زدند  ** از طویله‌ی مخلصان بیرون شدند 
  • Since they were made more ardent by their father's prohibition and veto, they raised their heads (rebelliously) towards that fortress.
  • چون شدند از منع و نهیش گرم‌تر  ** سوی آن قلعه بر آوردند سر 
  • In spite of the orders of the elect King (they advanced) to the fortress which is the destroyer of self-restraint and the robber of rationality.
  • بر ستیز قول شاه مجتبی  ** تا به قلعه‌ی صبرسوز هش‌ربا 
  • Turning their backs on the (bright) day, they came in the dark night in defiance of counsel-bestowing Reason
  • آمدند از رغم عقل پندتوز  ** در شب تاریک بر گشته ز روز 
  • Into the beautiful fortress adorned with pictures, (which had) five gates to the sea and five to the land—
  • اندر آن قلعه‌ی خوش ذات الصور  ** پنج در در بحر و پنجی سوی بر