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  • شب به خواب اندر بگفتش هاتفی ** که خریدی آب حیوان و شفا
  • At night, whilst (he was) asleep, a Voice said to him, “Thou hast bought the Water of Life and salvation.

  • حرمت این اختیار و این دخول ** شد نماز جمله‏ی خلقان قبول‏
  • In honour of this choice and this appropriation the prayers of all the people have been accepted.”

  • تتمه‏ی اقرار ابلیس به معاویه مکر خود را
  • Conclusion of the confession made by Iblís to Mu‘áwiya of his deceit.

  • پس عزازیلش به گفت ای میر راد ** مکر خود اندر میان باید نهاد 2780
  • Then ‘Azázíl said to him, “O noble Amír, I must lay my deceit before (you).

  • گر نمازت فوت می‏شد آن زمان ** می‏زدی از درد دل آه و فغان‏
  • If you had missed the prayers, you would then from heartache have uttered sighs and lamentations,

  • آن تاسف و آن فغان و آن نیاز ** در گذشتی از دو صد ذکر و نماز
  • And that regret and that lamentation and that (sorrowful) yearning would have exceeded (in value) two hundred litanies and prayers.

  • من ترا بیدار کردم از نهیب ** تا بسوزاند چنان آهی حجاب‏
  • I awakened you in fear lest such a sigh might burn the veil (of formality),

  • تا چنان آهی نباشد مر ترا ** تا بدان راهی نباشد مر ترا
  • In order that such a sigh should not be yours; in order that you should not have any way to it.

  • من حسودم از حسد کردم چنین ** من عدویم کار من مکر است و کین‏ 2785
  • I am envious: from envy I acted thus. I am the enemy: my (proper) work is deceit and malice.”

  • گفت اکنون راست گفتی صادقی ** از تو این آید تو این را لایقی‏
  • He (Mu‘áwiya) said, “Now you have told the truth, you are veracious. This (deceit) comes (naturally) from you: to this you are adapted.

  • عنکبوتی تو مگس داری شکار ** من نیم ای سگ مگس زحمت میار
  • You are a spider, you have flies as your prey; O cur, I am not a fly, (so) do not worry.

  • باز اسپیدم شکارم شه کند ** عنکبوتی کی بگرد ما تند
  • I am a white falcon: the King hunts me. How should a spider weave his web about me?

  • رو مگس می‏گیر تا تانی هلا ** سوی دوغی زن مگسها را صلا
  • Go now, continue to catch flies as far as you can: invite the flies to (partake of) some buttermilk;

  • ور بخوانی تو به سوی انگبین ** هم دروغ و دوغ باشد آن یقین‏ 2790
  • And if you call (them) to honey, that too will certainly be lies and buttermilk (fraud).

  • تو مرا بیدار کردی خواب بود ** تو نمودی کشتی آن گرداب بود
  • You awakened me, (but) it (that awakenment) was (really) slumber: you showed (me) a ship, (but) that was (really) a whirlpool.

  • تو مرا در خیر ز آن می‏خواندی ** تا مرا از خیر بهتر راندی‏
  • You were calling me to good for the purpose that you might drive me away from the better good.”

  • فوت شدن دزد به آواز دادن آن شخص صاحب خانه را که نزدیک آمده بود که دزد را دریابد و بگیرد
  • How a thief escaped because some one gave the alarm to the master of the house, who had nearly overtaken and caught the thief.

  • این بدان ماند که شخصی دزد دید ** در وثاق اندر پی او می‏دوید
  • This (behaviour of Iblís) is like that (which is told in the following story), how a certain man saw a thief in the house and ran after him.

  • تا دو سه میدان دوید اندر پیش ** تا در افگند آن تعب اندر خویش‏
  • He ran after him (the length of) two or three fields, till the fatigue threw him into a sweat.

  • اندر آن حمله که نزدیک آمدش ** تا بدو اندر جهد دریابدش‏ 2795
  • At the moment when, rushing on, he had come so near to him that he might spring upon him and seize him,

  • دزد دیگر بانگ کردش که بیا ** تا ببینی این علامات بلا
  • The second thief cried out to him, “Come, that you may see these signs of calamity.

  • زود باش و باز گرد ای مرد کار ** تا ببینی حال اینجا زار زار
  • Be quick and turn back, O man of (prompt) action, that you may see (how) very pitiable (is) the state of things here.”

  • گفت باشد کان طرف دزدی بود ** گر نگردم زود این بر من رود
  • He (the householder) said (to himself), “Maybe a thief is yonder: if I do not return at once, this (fate) will befall me.

  • در زن و فرزند من دستی زند ** بستن این دزد سودم کی کند
  • He may lay hands upon my wife and child, (and in that case) how would it profit me to bind this thief (whom I am pursuing)?

  • این مسلمان از کرم می‏خواندم ** گر نگردم زود پیش آید ندم‏ 2800
  • This Moslem is calling me in kindness: unless I return quickly, repentance will befall (me).”

  • بر امید شفقت آن نیک خواه ** دزد را بگذاشت باز آمد به راه‏
  • In (confident) hope of the compassion of that well-disposed (friend), he left the thief and again set off (in another direction).

  • گفت ای یار نکو احوال چیست ** این فغان و بانگ تو از دست کیست‏
  • “O good friend,” said he, “what is the matter? By whose hand (violence) is this lamentation and outcry of yours (caused)?”