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  • گر قضا انداخت ما را در عذاب  ** کی رود آن خو و طبع مستطاب 
  • If Destiny has cast me into torment, (yet) how should that goodly disposition and nature depart (from me)?

  • گر گدا گشتم گدارو کی شوم  ** ور لباسم کهنه گردد من نوم 
  • If I have become a beggar, (yet) how should I have the face (impudence and greed) of a beggar? And if my (bodily) raiment become old, (yet) I am (spiritually) new.

  • سنبل و لاله و سپرغم نیز هم  ** با هزاران ناز و نفرت خورده‌ام  920
  • I have eaten hyacinth and anemone and sweet basil too with a thousand disdains and disgusts.”

  • گفت آری لاف می‌زن لاف‌لاف  ** در غریبی بس توان گفتن گزاف 
  • He (the donkey) said, “Yes; boast and boast and boast away! In a strange country one can utter many an idle brag.”

  • گفت نافم خود گواهی می‌دهد  ** منتی بر عود و عنبر می‌نهد 
  • He (the gazelle) replied, “Truly my navel (musk-gland) bears (me) witness: it confers a (great) favour (even) on aloes-wood and ambergris.

  • لیک آن را کی شنود صاحب‌مشام  ** بر خر سرگین‌پرست آن شد حرام 
  • But who will hearken to (perceive) that? (Only) he that hath the (spiritual) sense of smell. ’Tis taboo for the donkey addicted to dung.

  • خر کمیز خر ببوید بر طریق  ** مشک چون عرضه کنم با این فریق 
  • The donkey smells donkey's urine on the road: how should I offer musk to (creatures of) this class?”

  • بهر این گفت آن نبی مستجیب  ** رمز الاسلام فی‌الدنیا غریب  925
  • Hence the Prophet, (who was always) responsive (to the Divine command), spake, the parable, “Islam is a stranger in this world,”

  • زانک خویشانش هم از وی می‌رمند  ** گرچه با ذاتش ملایک هم‌دمند 
  • Because even his (the true Moslem's) kinsfolk are fleeing from him, though the angels are in harmony with his essence.

  • صورتش را جنس می‌بینند انام  ** لیک از وی می‌نیابند آن مشام 
  • The people deem his (outward) form homogeneous (with theirs), but they do not perceive in him that (spiritual) fragrance.