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  • کای امیر صید و ای شیر شکار ** دست دست تست دست از من بدار
  • Saying, “O prince of the chase, and O lion of the hunt, thine is the (upper) hand: refrain thy hand from me!”—

  • کز ضرورت دم خر را آن حکیم ** کرد تعظیم و لقب دادش کریم‏
  • For, (moved) by necessity, that (renowned) philosopher paid honour to (one vile as) the tail of an ass, and gave him the title of “noble.”

  • گفت او هم از ضرورت کای اسد ** از چو من لاغر شکارت چه رسد
  • He (the blind man) too, of necessity, said, “O lion, what (good) will come to thee from such a meagre prey as I am?

  • گور می‏گیرند یارانت به دشت ** کور می‏گیری تو در کوچه به گشت‏ 2360
  • Thy friends are catching onagers in the desert; thou art catching a blind man in the street; this is bad.

  • گور می‏جویند یارانت به صید ** کور می‏جویی تو در کوچه به کید
  • Thy friends seek on agers by hunting (them); thou in (mere) malice seekest a blind man in the street.”

  • آن سگ عالم شکار گور کرد ** وین سگ بی‏مایه قصد کور کرد
  • The knowing dog has made the onager his prey, while this worthless dog has attacked a blind man.

  • علم چون آموخت سگ رست از ضلال ** می‏کند در بیشه‏ها صید حلال‏
  • When the dog has learned the knowledge (imparted to him), he has escaped from error: he hunts lawful prey in the jungles.

  • سگ چو عالم گشت شد چالاک زحف ** سگ چو عارف گشت شد ز اصحاب کهف‏
  • When the dog has become knowing (‘álim), he marches briskly; when the dog has become a knower of God (‘árif), he becomes (as) the Men of the Cave.

  • سگ شناسا شد که میر صید کیست ** ای خدا آن نور اشناسنده چیست‏ 2365
  • The dog has come to know who is the Master of the hunt. O God, what is that knowing light?

  • کور نشناسد نه از بی‏چشمی است ** بلکه این ز آن است کز جهل است مست‏
  • (If) the blind man knows it not, ’tis not from (his) having no eye (to see); nay, ’tis because he is drunken with ignorance.

  • نیست خود بی‏چشم تر کور از زمین ** این زمین از فضل حق شد خصم بین‏
  • Truly, the blind man is not more eyeless than the earth; and this earth, by the grace of God, has become a seer of (God's) enemies.

  • نور موسی دید و موسی را نواخت ** خسف قارون کرد و قارون را شناخت‏
  • It saw the Light of Moses and showed kindness to Moses; (but) Qárún it engulfed, (for) it knew Qárún.

  • رجف کرد اندر هلاک هر دعی ** فهم کرد از حق که یا أرض ابلعی‏
  • It quaked for the destruction of every false pretender: it understood (the words that came) from God, “O earth, swallow (thy water)!”

  • خاک و آب و باد و نار با شرر ** بی‏خبر با ما و با حق با خبر 2370
  • Earth and water and air and sparking fire are unacquainted with us, but acquainted with God.

  • ما بعکس آن ز غیر حق خبیر ** بی‏خبر از حق و از چندین نذیر
  • Contrariwise, we are aware of (things) other than God, (but) unaware (heedless) of God and of so many warners (prophets).

  • لاجرم أشفقن منها جمله‏شان ** کند شد ز آمیز حیوان حمله‏شان‏
  • As a necessary consequence, they (the elements) all shrank from (accepting) it (the trust offered to them): (the edge of) their impulse to partake of life was blunted.

  • گفته بیزاریم جمله زین حیات ** کاو بود با خلق حی با حق موات‏
  • They said, “We all are averse to this life, (namely), that one should be living in relation to created beings and dead in relation to God.”

  • چون بماند از خلق گردد او یتیم ** انس حق را قلب می‏باید سلیم‏
  • When he (any one) remains away from created beings, he is orphaned (single): for intimacy with God, the heart must be free (from relations with aught besides).

  • چون ز کوری دزد دزدد کاله‏ای ** می‏کند آن کور عمیا ناله‏ای‏ 2375
  • When a thief steals some article of property from a blind man, the blind man is blindly lamenting.

  • تا نگوید دزد او را کان منم ** کز تو دزدیدم که دزد پر فنم‏
  • Until the thief say to him, “’Tis I that stole from thee, for I am an artful thief,”

  • کی شناسد کور دزد خویش را ** چون ندارد نور چشم و آن ضیا
  • How should the blind man know his thief, since he hath not the eye's light and that radiance (of vision)?

  • چون بگوید هم بگیر او را تو سخت ** تا بگوید او علامتهای رخت‏
  • When he (the thief) speaks (and confesses), at once take tight hold of him, that he may tell the marks (descriptive) of the (stolen) goods.

  • پس جهاد اکبر آمد عصر دزد ** تا بگوید که چه دزدیده است مزد
  • The Greater Jihád (Holy War), then, consists in squeezing the thief, in order that he may tell what he has stolen and what he has carried off.

  • اولا دزدید کحل دیده‏ات ** چون ستانی باز یابی تبصرت‏ 2380
  • First, he has stolen your eye-salve; when you take it (from him), you will regain (your) insight.

  • کاله‏ی حکمت که گم کرده‏ی دل است ** پیش اهل دل یقین آن حاصل است‏
  • The goods of wisdom, which have been lost by (your) heart, are certainly to be found with the man of heart (the saint).