گفت جالینوس با اصحاب خود ** مر مرا تا آن فلان دارو دهد2095
Jálínús said to his companions, “Let (one of you) give me such-and-such a medicine.”
پس بدو گفت آن یکی ای ذو فنون ** این دوا خواهند از بهر جنون
Then said that person to him, “O master of (many) sciences, this medicine is sought (as a cure) for madness.
دور از عقل تو این دیگر مگو ** گفت در من کرد یک دیوانه رو
Far be this from thy intellect! Say no more (about it).” He replied, “A madman turned his face to me,
ساعتی در روی من خوش بنگرید ** چشمکم زد آستین من درید
Looked pleasantly on my face for a while, made little eyes at me, and plucked my sleeve.
گر نه جنسیت بدی در من از او ** کی رخ آوردی به من آن زشت رو
Had there not been in me congeniality with him, how would that ill-favoured man have turned his face towards me?
گر ندیدی جنس خود کی آمدی ** کی به غیر جنس خود را بر زدی2100
Had he not seen (in me) one of his own kind, how should he have approached? How should he have thrown himself upon (attached himself to) one of another kind?”
چون دو کس بر هم زند بیهیچ شک ** در میانشان هست قدر مشترک
When two persons come into touch with each other, without any doubt there is something in common between them.
کی پرد مرغی مگر با جنس خود ** صحبت ناجنس گور است و لحد
How should a bird fly except with its own kind? The society of the uncongenial is the grave and the tomb.
سبب پریدن و چریدن مرغی با مرغی که جنس او نبود
The cause of a bird's flying and feeding with a bird that is not of its own kind.
آن حکیمی گفت دیدم هم تکی ** در بیابان زاغ را با لکلکی
Said a certain sage, “I saw a crow running about in the desert with a stork.
در عجب ماندم بجستم حالشان ** تا چه قدر مشترک یابم نشان
I marvelled long, and I investigated their case, in order that I might find the clue (as to) what it was that they had in common.
چون شدم نزدیک، من حیران و دنگ ** خود بدیدم هر دوان بودند لنگ2105
When, amazed and bewildered, I approached them, (then) indeed I saw that both of them were lame.”
خاصه شهبازی که او عرشی بود ** با یکی جغدی که او فرشی بود
In particular, (how should) a royal falcon, which is of the highest heaven, (consort) with an owl, which is of the low earth?
آن یکی خورشید علیین بود ** وین دگر خفاش کز سجین بود
That one is the sun of ‘Illiyyún, while the other is a bat which belongs to Sijjín.
آن یکی نوری ز هر عیبی بری ** وین یکی کوری گدای هر دری
That one is a luminary, free from every defect, while this (other) one is a blind man begging at every door.
آن یکی ماهی که بر پروین زند ** وین یکی کرمی که در سرگین زید
That one is a moon that strikes (its beams) upon the Pleiades, while this (other) one is a worm that lives in dung.
آن یکی یوسف رخی عیسی نفس ** وین یکی گرگی و یا خر با جرس2110
That one has the face of a Joseph, the breath of a Jesus, while this (other) one is a wolf or an ass with a bell.
آن یکی پران شده در لا مکان ** وین یکی در کاهدان همچون سگان
That one has flown to Spacelessness, while this (other) one is in the straw-barn, like the dogs.
با زبان معنوی گل با جعل ** این همیگوید که ای گنده بغل
With the tongue of (unspoken) meaning the rose is saying to the beetle this—“O stinking (creature),
If thou art fleeing from the rose-bed, doubtless that aversion (shown by thee) is (a sign of) the perfection of the rose-garden.
غیرت من بر سر تو دور باش ** میزند کای خس از اینجا دور باش
My jealousy (sense of dignity) smites thee on the head with a baton, (warning thee to) keep far away from here, O vile one;
ور بیامیزی تو با من ای دنی ** این گمان آید که از کان منی2115
For if, base wretch, thou shouldst mix with me, it will be thought that thou art of my stock.
بلبلان را جای میزیبد چمن ** مر جعل را در چمین خوشتر وطن
For nightingales the garden is the proper place; for the beetle the best home is in ordure.”
حق مرا چون از پلیدی پاک داشت ** چون سزد بر من پلیدی را گماشت
Since God has kept me pure from filth, how were it seemly to appoint a foul one for (companionship with) me?
یک رگم ز ایشان بد و آن را برید ** در من آن بد رگ کجا خواهد رسید
I had (in me) a vein of them (of their nature). He (God) cut it out: how (then) will he with the vein of evil attain unto me?
یک نشان آدم آن بود از ازل ** که ملایک سر نهندش از محل
One mark of Adam from eternity was this, that the angels should lay their heads (on the ground) before him, because it was his place (proper to his dignity).