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آنچنانک گفت جالینوس راد ** از هوای این جهان و از مراد 3960
- That is even as wise Galen said on account of (his) passion for this world and because of what he desired (in it)—
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راضیم کز من بماند نیم جان ** که ز کون استری بینم جهان
- “I am content that (only) half of my vital spirit should remain, so that I may see the world through the arse of a mule.”
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گربه میبیند بگرد خود قطار ** مرغش آیس گشته بودست از مطار
- He sees around him cats in troops: his bird has despaired of flying;
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یا عدم دیدست غیر این جهان ** در عدم نادیده او حشری نهان
- Or he has deemed all except this world to be non-existence and has not perceived in non-existence a hidden resurrection.
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چون جنین کش میکشد بیرون کرم ** میگریزد او سپس سوی شکم
- Like the embryo which (the Divine) Bounty is drawing forth: it is fleeing back towards the belly.
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لطف رویش سوی مصدر میکند ** او مقر در پشت مادر میکند 3965
- (The Divine) Grace is turning its (the embryo's) face towards the place of exit, (while) it (the embryo) is making its abode in the mother's loins,
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که اگر بیرون فتم زین شهر و کام ** ای عجب بینم بدیده این مقام
- Saying, “Oh, I wonder, if I fall outside of this city and (abode of) pleasure, shall I see with my eye this dwelling-place;
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یا دری بودی در آن شهر وخم ** که نظاره کردمی اندر رحم
- Or would there be in that noisome city a door, so that I might gaze into the womb,
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یا چو چشمهی سوزنی راهم بدی ** که ز بیرونم رحم دیده شدی
- Or would there be for me a path, (narrow) as the eye of a needle, so that the womb might become visible to me from outside?”
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آن جنین هم غافلست از عالمی ** همچو جالینوس او نامحرمی
- That embryo, too, is unaware of a world (outside): it is one unfamiliar (therewith), like Galen.
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اونداند کن رطوباتی که هست ** آن مدد از عالم بیرونیست 3970
- It does not know that the humours which exist (in the womb) are supplied (to it) from the external world,
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آنچنانک چار عنصر در جهان ** صد مدد آرد ز شهر لامکان
- Even as the four elements in this world obtain a hundred supplies (means of support) from the City beyond space.
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آب و دانه در قفص گر یافتست ** آن ز باغ و عرصهای درتافتست
- If it has found water and seeds in its cage, those have appeared (there) from a Garden and Expanse.
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جانهای انبیا بینند باغ ** زین قفص در وقت نقلان و فراغ
- The spirits of the prophets behold the Garden from this cage at the time of their being transported and freed (from the body);
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پس ز جالینوس و عالم فارغند ** همچو ماه اندر فلکها بازغند
- Hence they are free of Galen and the world: they are shining like the moon in the skies.
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ور ز جالینوس این گفت افتراست ** پس جوابم بهر جالینوس نیست 3975
- And if this saying (as related) from Galen is a fiction, then my answer is not for Galen,
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این جواب آنکس آمد کین بگفت ** که نبودستش دل پر نور جفت
- (But) this is the answer to the person who said it, for the luminous heart has not been his mate.
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مرغ جانش موش شد سوراخجو ** چون شنید از گربگان او عرجوا
- The bird, his spirit, became a mouse seeking a hole, when it heard from the cats (the cry), “Halt ye!”
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زان سبب جانش وطن دید و قرار ** اندرین سوراخ دنیا موشوار
- On that account his spirit, mouse-like, deemed its home and abode to be in this world-hole.
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هم درین سوراخ بنایی گرفت ** درخور سوراخ دانایی گرفت
- In this hole, too, it began to build and acquired a knowledge suitable to the hole;
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پیشههایی که مرورا در مزید ** کاندرین سوراخ کار آید گزید 3980
- It chose the trades advantageous to it, which would be of use in this hole.
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زانک دل بر کند از بیرون شدن ** بسته شد راه رهیدن از بدن
- Inasmuch as it turned its heart away from (relinquished the desire for) going forth, the way of deliverance from the body was barred.
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عنکبوت ار طبع عنقا داشتی ** از لعابی خیمه کی افراشتی
- If the spider had the nature of the ‘Anqá, how should it have reared a tent (made) of some gossamer?
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گربه کرده چنگ خود اندر قفص ** نام چنگش درد و سرسام و مغص
- The cat has put its claws into the cage: the name of its claws is pain and delirium and gripes.
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گربه مرگست و مرض چنگال او ** میزند بر مرغ و پر و بال او
- The cat is Death, and its claws are disease: it is striking at the bird and its plumage.