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2607-2631

  • اندرو خلق و خلایق بی‌شمار ** لیک آن جمله سه خام پخته‌خوار
  • Within it there were numberless people and folk, but the whole of them (amounted to) three beggarly fools.

  • جان ناکرده به جانان تاختن ** گر هزارانست باشد نیم تن
  • The soul that has not made haste towards the Beloved— (even) if it is thousands, (yet) it is (only) half a body.

  • آن یکی بس دور بین و دیده‌کور ** از سلیمان کور و دیده پای مور
  • One (of the three) was very far-sighted and blind-eyed— blind to Solomon and seeing the leg of the ant;

  • و آن دگر بس تیزگوش و سخت کر ** گنج و در وی نیست یک جو سنگ زر 2610
  • And the second was very sharp of hearing and extremely deaf—a treasure in which there is not a barleycorn's weight of gold;

  • وآن دگر عور و برهنه لاشه‌باز ** لیک دامنهای جامه‌ی او دراز
  • And the other (the third) was naked and bare, pudendo patefacto, but the skirts of his raiment were long. [And the other (the third) was naked and bare, (the private parts of his) body exposed, but the skirts of his raiment were long.]

  • گفت کور اینک سپاهی می‌رسند ** من همی‌بینم که چه قومند و چند
  • The blind man said, “Look, an army is approaching: I see what people they are and how many.”

  • گفت کر آری شنودم بانگشان ** که چه می‌گویند پیدا و نهان
  • The deaf man said, “Yes; I heard their voices (and know) what they are saying openly and secretly.”

  • آن برهنه گفت ترسان زین منم ** که ببرند از درازی دامنم
  • The naked man said, “I am afraid they will cut off (something) from the length of my skirt.”

  • کور گفت اینک به نزدیک آمدند ** خیز بگریزیم پیش از زخم و بند 2615
  • The blind man said, “Look, they have come near! Arise and let us flee before (we suffer) blows and chains.”

  • کر همی‌گوید که آری مشغله ** می‌شود نزدیکتر یاران هله
  • “Yes,” says the deaf man, “the noise is getting nearer. Come on, my friends!”

  • آن برهنه گفت آوه دامنم ** از طمع برند و من ناآمنم
  • The naked man said, “Alas, from covetousness they will cut off my skirt, and I am unprotected.”

  • شهر را هشتند و بیرون آمدند ** در هزیمت در دهی اندر شدند
  • They (the three) left the city and came forth and in their flight entered a village.

  • اندر آن ده مرغ فربه یافتند ** لیک ذره‌ی گوشت بر وی نه نژند
  • In that village they found a fat fowl, but not a mite of flesh on it: (’twas) abject—

  • مرغ مرده‌ی خشک وز زخم کلاغ ** استخوانها زار گشته چون پناغ 2620
  • A dried-up dead fowl, and its bones through being pecked at by crows had become bare like threads.

  • زان همی‌خوردند چون از صید شیر ** هر یکی از خوردنش چون پیل سیر
  • They were eating thereof as a lion (eats) of his prey: each of them (became) surfeited, like an elephant, with eating it.

  • هر سه زان خوردند و بس فربه شدند ** چون سه پیل بس بزرگ و مه شدند
  • All the three ate thereof and grew exceedingly fat: they became like three very great and big elephants,

  • آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان
  • In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.

  • با چنین گبزی و هفت اندام زفت ** از شکاف در برون جستند و رفت
  • Notwithstanding such bigness and seven stout limbs, they sprang forth through a chink in the door and departed.

  • راه مرگ خلق ناپیدا رهیست ** در نظر ناید که آن بی‌جا رهیست 2625
  • The way of creaturely death is an invisible way: it comes not into sight, for it is a way without locality.

  • نک پیاپی کاروانها مقتفی ** زین شکاف در که هست آن مختفی
  • Lo, the caravans are following one after another through this chink which is hidden (from view) in the door.

  • بر در ار جویی نیابی آن شکاف ** سخت ناپیدا و زو چندین زفاف
  • If you look on the door for that chink, you will not find it: (it is) extremely unapparent, though (there are) so many processions through it.

  • شرح آن کور دوربین و آن کر تیزشنو و آن برهنه دراز دامن
  • Explaining (what is signified by) the far-sighted blind man, the deaf man who is sharp of hearing, and the naked man with the long skirts.

  • کر امل را دان که مرگ ما شنید ** مرگ خود نشنید و نقل خود ندید
  • Know that Hope is the deaf man who has (often) heard of our dying, (but) has not heard of his own death or regarded his own decease.

  • حرص نابیناست بیند مو بمو ** عیب خلقان و بگوید کو بکو
  • The blind man is Greed: he sees other people's faults, hair by hair, and tells them from street to street,

  • عیب خود یک ذره چشم کور او ** می‌نبیند گرچه هست او عیب‌جو 2630
  • (But) his blind eyes do not perceive one mote of his own faults, albeit he is a fault-finder.

  • عور می‌ترسد که دامانش برند ** دامن مرد برهنه چون درند
  • The naked man is afraid that his skirt will be cut off: how should they (any one) cut off the skirt of a naked man?