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1256-1280

  • هم‌چو جان باشد شه و صاحب چو عقل ** عقل فاسد روح را آرد بنقل
  • The king is as the spirit, and the vizier as the intellect: the corrupt intellect brings the spirit into movement (towards corruption).

  • آن فرشته‌ی عقل چون هاروت شد ** سحرآموز دو صد طاغوت شد
  • When the angelical intellect became a Hárút, it became the teacher in magic to two hundred devils.

  • عقل جزوی را وزیر خود مگیر ** عقل کل را ساز ای سلطان وزیر
  • Do not take the particular (individual) intellect as thy vizier: make the Universal Intellect thy vizier, O king.

  • مر هوا را تو وزیر خود مساز ** که برآید جان پاکت از نماز
  • Do not make sensuality thy vizier, else thy pure spirit will cease from prayer,

  • کین هوا پر حرص و حالی‌بین بود ** عقل را اندیشه یوم دین بود 1260
  • For this sensuality is full of greed and sees (only) the immediate present, (whereas) the Intellect takes thought for the Day of Judgement.

  • عقل را دو دیده در پایان کار ** بهر آن گل می‌کشد او رنج خار
  • The two eyes of the Intellect are (fixed) on the end of things: it endures the pain of the thorn for the sake of that Rose

  • که نفرساید نریزد در خزان ** باد هر خرطوم اخشم دور از آن
  • Which does not fade and drop in autumn—far from it be the wind (breath) of every nose that cannot smell!

  • نشستن دیو بر مقام سلیمان علیه‌السلام و تشبه کردن او به کارهای سلیمان علیه‌السلام و فرق ظاهر میان هر دو سلیمان و دیو خویشتن را سلیمان بن داود نام کردن
  • How the Demon sat on the place (throne) of Solomon, on whom be peace, and imitated his actions; and concerning the manifest difference between the two Solomons, and how the Demon called himself Solomon son of David.

  • ورچه عقلت هست با عقل دگر ** یار باش و مشورت کن ای پدر
  • Even if thou hast intellect, associate and consult with another intellect, O father.

  • با دو عقل از بس بلاها وا رهی ** پای خود بر اوج گردونها نهی
  • With two intellects thou wilt be delivered from many afflictions: thou wilt plant thy foot on the summit of the heavens.

  • دیو گر خود را سلیمان نام کرد ** ملک برد و مملکت را رام کرد 1265
  • If the Demon called himself Solomon and won the kingdom and made the empire subject (to him),

  • صورت کار سلیمان دیده بود ** صورت اندر سر دیوی می‌نمود
  • (It was because) he had seen (and imitated) the form of Solomon's action; (but) within the form the spirit of demonry was appearing.

  • خلق گفتند این سلیمان بی‌صفاست ** از سلیمان تا سلیمان فرقهاست
  • The people said, “This Solomon is without excellence: there are (great) differences between (that) Solomon and (this) Solomon.”

  • او چو بیداریست این هم‌چون وسن ** هم‌چنانک آن حسن با این حسن
  • He (the former) is like wakefulness, this one is like sleep; (there is as much difference) as between that Hasan and this Hasan.

  • دیو می‌گفتی که حق بر شکل من ** صورتی کردست خوش بر اهرمن
  • The Demon would reply, “God has bestowed on Ahriman a pleasing form (aspect) in the likeness of me.

  • دیو را حق صورت من داده است ** تا نیندازد شما را او بشست 1270
  • God hath given my aspect to the Devil: let him not cast you into his net!

  • گر پدید آید به دعوی زینهار ** صورت او را مدارید اعتبار
  • If he appear with the pretence (that he is really I), beware! Do not have regard to his (outward) form.”

  • دیوشان از مکر این می‌گفت لیک ** می‌نمود این عکس در دلهای نیک
  • The Demon was saying this to them from guile, but in good (enlightened) hearts the reverse of this was apparent.

  • نیست بازی با ممیز خاصه او ** که بود تمییز و عقلش غیب‌گو
  • There is no playing tricks with the discerning man, especially (with) him whose discernment and intelligence speak of the Unseen.

  • هیچ سحر و هیچ تلبیس و دغل ** می‌نبندد پرده بر اهل دول
  • No magic and no imposture and fraud will bind a veil upon the owners of (spiritual) empire.

  • پس همی گفتند با خود در جواب ** بازگونه می‌روی ای کژ خطاب 1275
  • Hence they were saying to themselves in reply (to the Demon), “Thou art going upside down, O thou who art addressed falsely (by the name of Solomon).

  • بازگونه رفت خواهی همچنین ** سوی دوزخ اسفل اندر سافلین
  • Upside down likewise thou wilt go Hellward, the lowest among the low.

  • او اگر معزول گشتست و فقیر ** هست در پیشانیش بدر منیر
  • If he (Solomon) has been deposed and reduced to poverty, (yet) the radiant full-moon is on his forehead.

  • تو اگر انگشتری را برده‌ای ** دوزخی چون زمهریر افسرده‌ای
  • If thou hast carried off the (royal) signet-ring, (yet) thou art (as) a Hell frozen like (the region of) piercing cold.

  • ما ببوش و عارض و طاق و طرنب ** سر کجا که خود همی ننهیم سنب
  • On account of (the Demon's) ostentation and vain show and pomp and grandeur how (should we lay) the head (in obeisance before him)? for we will not lay (before him) even a hoof.

  • ور به غفلت ما نهیم او را جبین ** پنجه‌ی مانع برآید از زمین 1280
  • And if heedlessly we should lay the forehead (on the ground in homage) to him, a preventing hand will rise up from the earth,