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  • کس نداند از خرد او را شناخت ** چون که او مر خویش را دیوانه ساخت‏ 2350
  • No one can recognise him by means of wisdom when he has feigned to be mad.

  • چون بدزدد دزد بینایی ز کور ** هیچ یابد دزد را او در عبور
  • When a seeing thief steals from a blind man, can he at all detect (the identity of) the thief (who is) in the act of passing?

  • کور نشناسد که دزد او که بود ** گر چه خود بر وی زند دزد عنود
  • The blind man does not know who it was that robbed him, even though the wicked thief may knock against him.

  • چون گزد سگ کور صاحب ژنده را ** کی شناسد آن سگ درنده را
  • When a dog bites a blind ragged mendicant, how should he recognise that ferocious dog?

  • حمله بردن سگ بر کور گدا
  • How the dog attacked the mendicant who was blind.

  • یک سگی در کوی بر کور گدا ** حمله می‏آورد چون شیر وغا
  • A dog was attacking, as (though it were) a warlike lion, a blind mendicant in a certain street.

  • سگ کند آهنگ درویشان به خشم ** در کشد مه خاک درویشان به چشم‏ 2355
  • The dog rushes angrily at dervishes; the moon smears her eyes with dust of (the feet of) dervishes.

  • کور عاجز شد ز بانگ و بیم سگ ** اندر آمد کور در تعظیم سگ‏
  • The blind man was made helpless by the dog's barking and by (his) fear of the dog; the blind man began to pay honour to the dog.

  • کای امیر صید و ای شیر شکار ** دست دست تست دست از من بدار
  • Saying, “O prince of the chase, and O lion of the hunt, thine is the (upper) hand: refrain thy hand from me!”—

  • کز ضرورت دم خر را آن حکیم ** کرد تعظیم و لقب دادش کریم‏
  • For, (moved) by necessity, that (renowned) philosopher paid honour to (one vile as) the tail of an ass, and gave him the title of “noble.”

  • گفت او هم از ضرورت کای اسد ** از چو من لاغر شکارت چه رسد
  • He (the blind man) too, of necessity, said, “O lion, what (good) will come to thee from such a meagre prey as I am?