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  • حق تعالی گرم و سرد و رنج و درد ** بر تن ما می‏نهد ای شیر مرد
  • The High God lays upon our body, O man of fortitude, heat and cold and grief and pain,

  • خوف و جوع و نقص اموال و بدن ** جمله بهر نقد جان ظاهر شدن‏
  • Fear and hunger and impairment of wealth and body—all for the sake of the soul's coin being brought into sight (and use).

  • این وعید و وعده‏ها انگیخته ست ** بهر این نیک و بدی کامیخته ست‏ 2965
  • These threats and promises He hath sent forth on account of this good and evil which He hath mingled.

  • چون که حق و باطلی آمیختند ** نقد و قلب اندر حرمدان ریختند
  • Inasmuch as truth and falsehood have been mingled, and the good and bad coin have been poured into the travelling-bag,

  • پس محک می‏بایدش بگزیده‏ای ** در حقایق امتحانها دیده‏ای‏
  • Therefore they need a picked touchstone, one that has undergone (many) tests in (assaying) realities,

  • تا شود فاروق این تزویرها ** تا بود دستور این تدبیرها
  • So that it may become a criterion for these impostures; so that it may be a standard for these acts of providence.

  • شیر ده ای مادر موسی و را ** و اندر آب افکن میندیش از بلا
  • Give him milk, O mother of Moses, and cast him into the water: be not afraid of (putting him to) the trial.

  • هر که در روز أ لست آن شیر خورد ** همچو موسی شیر را تمییز کرد 2970
  • Whoever drank that milk on the Day of Alast distinguishes the milk (in this world), even as Moses (distinguished and knew his mother's milk).

  • گر تو بر تمییز طفلت مولعی ** این زمان یا ام موسی ارضعی‏
  • If thou wishest fondly for thy child's discrimination (and recognition), suckle (him) now, O mother of Moses,

  • تا ببیند طعم شیر مادرش ** تا فرو ناید بدایه‏ی بد سرش‏
  • That he may know the taste of his mother's milk, and that his head may not sink to (desire and accept the milk of) a bad nurse.

  • شرح فایده‏ی حکایت آن شخص شتر جوینده‏
  • Explaining the moral of the story of the person seeking (the lost) camel.