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گر تو را وسواس آید زین قبیل ** رو بخوان تو سورهی اصحاب فیل
- If temptation of this kind come to you, go, read the Súra concerning the Possessors of the Elephant.
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ور کنی با او مری و همسری ** کافرم دان گر تو ز ایشان سر بری 3435
- And if you contend and engage in rivalry with him (the saint), deem me an infidel if you save your head from them.
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کشیدن موش مهار شتر را و متعجب شدن موش در خود
- How the mouse pulled (the rope attached to) the camel's nose-ring and became self conceited.
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موشکی در کف مهار اشتری ** در ربود و شد روان او از مری
- A little mouse caught in his forelegs a camel's leading-rope and from emulation went off (with it).
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اشتر از چستی که با او شد روان ** موش غره شد که هستم پهلوان
- By reason of the readiness with which the camel set out along with him, the mouse was duped into thinking himself a hero.
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بر شتر زد پرتو اندیشهاش ** گفت بنمایم ترا تو باش خوش
- The ray of his thought struck the camel. He (the camel) said (aside), “I will show thee (presently)! Enjoy thyself!”
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تا بیامد بر لب جوی بزرگ ** کاندر او گشتی زبون پیل سترگ
- (All went well) till he (the mouse) came to the bank of a great river, at which any lion or wolf would have lost heart.
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موش آن جا ایستاد و خشک گشت ** گفت اشتر ای رفیق کوه و دشت 3440
- There the mouse stopped and became paralysed. The camel said, “O my companion o’er hill and plain,
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این توقف چیست حیرانی چرا ** پا بنه مردانه اندر جو در آ
- What is this standing still (for)? Why art thou dismayed? Step (forward) like a man! Go into the river!
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تو قلاووزی و پیش آهنگ من ** در میان ره مباش و تن مزن
- Thou art my guide and leader: don't halt midway and be dumbfounded!”
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گفت این آب شگرف است و عمیق ** من همیترسم ز غرقاب ای رفیق
- He (the mouse) said, “This is a huge and deep river: I am afraid of being drowned, O comrade.”