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  • 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?

  • گور می‏گیرند یارانت به دشت ** کور می‏گیری تو در کوچه به گشت‏ 2360
  • Thy friends are catching onagers in the desert; thou art catching a blind man in the street; this is bad.

  • گور می‏جویند یارانت به صید ** کور می‏جویی تو در کوچه به کید
  • Thy friends seek on agers by hunting (them); thou in (mere) malice seekest a blind man in the street.”

  • آن سگ عالم شکار گور کرد ** وین سگ بی‏مایه قصد کور کرد
  • The knowing dog has made the onager his prey, while this worthless dog has attacked a blind man.

  • علم چون آموخت سگ رست از ضلال ** می‏کند در بیشه‏ها صید حلال‏
  • When the dog has learned the knowledge (imparted to him), he has escaped from error: he hunts lawful prey in the jungles.

  • سگ چو عالم گشت شد چالاک زحف ** سگ چو عارف گشت شد ز اصحاب کهف‏
  • When the dog has become knowing (‘álim), he marches briskly; when the dog has become a knower of God (‘árif), he becomes (as) the Men of the Cave.