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2086-2095

  • اخ اخی برداشتی ای گیج گاج ** تا که کالای بدت یابد رواج
  • O squinting crazy fool, thou hast exclaimed in delight, “Oh, oh,” that thy bad wares may find a ready sale,

  • تا فریبی آن مشام پاک را ** آن چریده‌ی گلشن افلاک را
  • And that thou mayst deceive that pure organ of (spiritual) smell, that which pastures in the celestial rose-garden.

  • حلم او خود را اگر چه گول ساخت ** خویشتن را اندکی باید شناخت
  • Though his (the saint's) forbearance has feigned to be stupid, one must know one's self a little.

  • دیگ را گر باز ماند امشب دهن ** گربه را هم شرم باید داشتن
  • If to-night the mouth of the cooking-pot is left open, yet the cat must have discretion.

  • خویشتن گر خفته کرد آن خوب فر ** سخت بیدارست دستارش مبر 2090
  • If that glorious one (the saint) has feigned to be asleep, he is (really) very much awake: do not carry off his turban.

  • چند گویی ای لجوج بی‌صفا ** این فسون دیو پیش مصطفی
  • How long, O contumacious man devoid of (spiritual) excellence, wilt thou utter these Devil's enchantments in the presence of God's elect one?

  • صد هزاران حلم دارند این گروه ** هر یکی حلمی از آنها صد چو کوه
  • This company (of the elect) have a hundred thousand forbearances, every one of which is (immovable) as a hundred mountains.

  • حلمشان بیدار را ابله کند ** زیرک صد چشم را گمره کند
  • Their forbearance makes a fool of the wary and causes the keen-witted man with a hundred eyes to lose his way.

  • حلمشان هم‌چون شراب خوب نغز ** نغز نغزک بر رود بالای مغز
  • Their forbearance, like fine choice wine, mounts by nice degrees up to the brain.

  • مست را بین زان شراب پرشگفت ** هم‌چو فرزین مست کژ رفتن گرفت 2095
  • Behold the man drunken with that marvellous (earthly) wine: the drunken man has begun to move crookedly like the queen (in chess).