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  • بهر یاری مار جوید آدمی ** غم خورد بهر حریف بی‌غمی
  • Man seeks a snake for the purpose of friendship and cares for one that is without care (for him).

  • او همی‌جستی یکی ماری شگرف ** گرد کوهستان و در ایام برف 995
  • He (the snake-catcher) was searching for a big snake round about the mountains and in the days of snow.

  • اژدهایی مرده دید آنجا عظیم ** که دلش از شکل او شد پر ز بیم
  • He espied there a huge dead dragon, at the aspect whereof his heart was filled with fear.

  • مارگیر اندر زمستان شدید ** مار می‌جست اژدهایی مرده دید
  • (Whilst) the snake-catcher was looking for snakes in the hard winter, he espied a dead dragon.

  • مارگیر از بهر حیرانی خلق ** مار گیرد اینت نادانی خلق
  • The snake-catcher catches snakes in order to amaze the people—behold the foolishness of the people!

  • آدمی کوهیست چون مفتون شود ** کوه اندر مار حیران چون شود
  • Man is a mountain: how should he be led into temptation? How should a mountain become amazed at a snake?

  • خویشتن نشناخت مسکین آدمی ** از فزونی آمد و شد در کمی 1000
  • Wretched Man does not know himself: he has come from a high estate and fallen into lowlihood.

  • خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت ** بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت
  • Man has sold himself cheaply: he was satin, he has sewn himself on (become attached) to a tattered cloak.

  • صد هزاران مار و که حیران اوست ** او چرا حیران شدست و ماردوست
  • Hundreds of thousands of snakes and mountains are amazed at him: why (then) has he become amazed and fond of a snake?

  • مارگیر آن اژدها را بر گرفت ** سوی بغداد آمد از بهر شگفت
  • The snake-catcher took up that snake and came to Baghdád for the sake of (exciting) astonishment.

  • اژدهایی چون ستون خانه‌ای ** می‌کشیدش از پی دانگانه‌ای
  • In quest of a paltry fee he carried along a dragon like the pillar of a house,

  • کاژدهای مرده‌ای آورده‌ام ** در شکارش من جگرها خورده‌ام 1005
  • Saying, “I have brought a dead dragon: I have suffered agonies in hunting it.”

  • او همی مرده گمان بردش ولیک ** زنده بود و او ندیدش نیک نیک
  • He thought it was dead, but it was living, and he did not see it very well.

  • او ز سرماها و برف افسرده بود ** زنده بود و شکل مرده می‌نمود
  • It was frozen by frosts and snow: it was alive, but it presented the appearance of the dead.

  • عالم افسردست و نام او جماد ** جامد افسرده بود ای اوستاد
  • The world is frozen: its name is jamád (inanimate): jámid is (means) “frozen,” O master.

  • باش تا خورشید حشر آید عیان ** تا ببینی جنبش جسم جهان
  • Wait till the sun of the Resurrection shall become manifest, that thou mayst see the movement of the world's body.

  • چون عصای موسی اینجا مار شد ** عقل را از ساکنان اخبار شد 1010
  • When here (in this world) the rod of Moses became a snake, information was given to the intellect concerning motionless (inanimate) beings.

  • پاره‌ی خاک ترا چون مرد ساخت ** خاکها را جملگی شاید شناخت
  • Since He (God) made thy piece of earth a man, thou shouldst recognise (the real nature of) the entire sum of the particles of earth:

  • مرده زین سو اند و زان سو زنده‌اند ** خامش اینجا و آن طرف گوینده‌اند
  • (That) from this standpoint they are dead and from that standpoint they are living; (that they are) silent here and speaking yonder.

  • چون از آن سوشان فرستد سوی ما ** آن عصا گردد سوی ما اژدها
  • When He sends them from that quarter towards us, the rod becomes a dragon in relation to us.

  • کوهها هم لحن داودی کند ** جوهر آهن بکف مومی بود
  • The mountains too make a song like that of David, and the substance of iron is (as) wax in the hand.

  • باد حمال سلیمانی شود ** بحر با موسی سخن‌دانی شود 1015
  • The wind becomes a bearer for Solomon, the sea becomes capable of understanding words in regard to Moses.

  • ماه با احمد اشارت‌بین شود ** نار ابراهیم را نسرین شود
  • The moon becomes able to see the sign in obedience to Ahmad (Mohammed), the fire becomes wild-roses for Abraham.

  • خاک قارون را چو ماری در کشد ** استن حنانه آید در رشد
  • The earth swallows Qárún (Korah) like a snake; the Moaning Pillar comes into (the way of) righteousness.

  • سنگ بر احمد سلامی می‌کند ** کوه یحیی را پیامی می‌کند
  • The stone salaams to Ahmad (Mohammed); the mountain sends a message to Yahyá (John the Baptist).