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  • روستایی شد در آخر سوی گاو ** گاو را می‏جست شب آن کنج کاو
  • The peasant went into the stable to (see) the ox: the man, groping into corners, was seeking the ox at night.

  • دست می‏مالید بر اعضای شیر ** پشت و پهلو گاه بالا گاه زیر 505
  • He was rubbing his hand on the limbs of the lion, back and side, now above, now below.

  • گفت شیر ار روشنی افزون شدی ** زهره‏اش بدریدی و دل خون شدی‏
  • The lion said, “If the light were to become greater, his gall-bladder would burst and his heart would turn to blood.

  • این چنین گستاخ ز آن می‏خاردم ** کاو درین شب گاو می‏پنداردم‏
  • He is stroking me like this so boldly because in this (dark) night he thinks I am the ox.”

  • حق همی‏گوید که ای مغرور کور ** نه ز نامم پاره پاره گشت طور
  • God is saying, “O blind dupe, did not Túr (Sinai) fall in pieces at My Name?

  • که لو انزلنا کتابا للجبل ** لانصدع ثم انقطع ثم ارتحل‏
  • For if We had sent down (revealed) a Book to the mountain, it would have been riven asunder, then cut to pieces, and then it would have departed (disappeared).

  • از من ار کوه احد واقف بدی ** پاره گشتی و دلش پر خون شدی‏ 510
  • If Mount Uhud had been acquainted with Me, it would have been shivered to pieces and its heart would have been filled with blood.”

  • از پدر وز مادر این بشنیده‏ای ** لاجرم غافل در این پیچیده‏ای‏
  • You have heard this from your father and mother; in consequence you have embraced it thoughtlessly.

  • گر تو بی‏تقلید از این واقف شوی ** بی‏نشان از لطف چون هاتف شوی‏
  • If you become acquainted with this without blind imitation, by (His) grace you will become immaterial, like a voice from Heaven.

  • بشنو این قصه پی تهدید را ** تا بدانی آفت تقلید را
  • Hear this (following) story as a deterrent, in order that you may know the banefulness of blind imitation.

  • فروختن صوفیان بهیمه‏ی مسافر را جهت سماع
  • How the Súfís sold the traveller's beast (to pay) for the (expenses of the) mystic dance.