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1282-1306

  • کردمی من شرح این بس جان‌فزا ** گر نبودی غیرت و رشک خدا
  • I would have given a very soul-quickening exposition of this (story), were it not for the indignation and jealousy of God.

  • هم قناعت کن تو بپذیر این قدر ** تا بگویم شرح این وقتی دگر
  • Still, be content and accept this (insufficient) amount, that I may explain (the whole of) this at another time.

  • نام خود کرده سلیمان نبی ** روی‌پوشی می‌کند بر هر صبی
  • He (the Demon), having called himself by the name of the prophet Solomon, makes it a mask to deceive every (foolish) boy.

  • در گذر از صورت و از نام خیز ** از لقب وز نام در معنی گریز 1285
  • Pass on from the (outward) form and rise beyond the name: flee from title and from name (and enter) into reality.

  • پس بپرس از حد او وز فعل او ** در میان حد و فعل او را بجو
  • Inquire, then, about his (spiritual) degree and his (interior) actions: in the midst of his degree and actions seek (to discover) him.

  • درآمدن سلیمان علیه‌السلام هر روز در مسجد اقصی بعد از تمام شدن جهت عبادت و ارشاد عابدان و معتکفان و رستن عقاقیر در مسجد
  • How Solomon, on whom be peace, entered the Farther Mosque daily, after its completion, for the purpose of worshipping and directing the worshippers and devotees; and how medicinal herbs grew in the Mosque.

  • هر صباحی چون سلیمان آمدی ** خاضع اندر مسجد اقصی شدی
  • Every morning, when Solomon came and made supplication in the Farther Mosque.

  • نوگیاهی رسته دیدی اندرو ** پس بگفتی نام و نفع خود بگو
  • He saw that a new plant had grown there; then he would say, “Tell thy name and use.

  • تو چه دارویی چیی نامت چیست ** تو زیان کی و نفعت بر کیست
  • What medicine art thou? What art thou? What is thy name? To whom art thou hurtful and for whom is thy usefulness?”

  • پس بگفتی هر گیاهی فعل و نام ** که من آن را جانم و این را حمام 1290
  • Then every plant would tell its effect and name, saying “I am life to that one, and death to this one.

  • من مرین را زهرم و او را شکر ** نام من اینست بر لوح از قدر
  • I am poison to this one, and sugar to that one: this is my name (inscribed) on the Tablet by (the pen of) the Divine decree.”

  • پس طبیبان از سلیمان زان گیا ** عالم و دانا شدندی مقتدی
  • Then (by hearing) from Solomon about those plants the physicians became learned and wise authorities (on medicine),

  • تا کتبهای طبیبی ساختند ** جسم را از رنج می‌پرداختند
  • So that they compiled medical books and were relieving the body from pain.

  • این نجوم و طب وحی انبیاست ** عقل و حس را سوی بی‌سو ره کجاست
  • This astronomy and medicine is (knowledge given by) Divine inspiration to the prophets: where is the way for intellect and sense (to advance) towards that which is without (spatial) direction?

  • عقل جزوی عقل استخراج نیست ** جز پذیرای فن و محتاج نیست 1295
  • The particular (individual) intellect is not the intellect (capable) of production: it is only the receiver of science and is in need (of teaching).

  • قابل تعلیم و فهمست این خرد ** لیک صاحب وحی تعلیمش دهد
  • This intellect is capable of being taught and of apprehending, but (only) the man possessed of Divine inspiration gives it the teaching (which it requires).

  • جمله حرفتها یقین از وحی بود ** اول او لیک عقل آن را فزود
  • Assuredly, in their beginning, all trades (crafts and professions) were (derived) from Divine inspiration, but the intellect added (something) to them.

  • هیچ حرفت را ببین کین عقل ما ** تاند او آموختن بی‌اوستا
  • Consider whether this intellect of ours can learn any trade without a master.

  • گرچه اندر مکر موی‌اشکاف بد ** هیچ پیشه رام بی‌استا نشد
  • Although it (the intellect) was hair-splitting (subtle and ingenious) in contrivance, no trade was subdued (brought under command) without a master.

  • دانش پیشه ازین عقل ار بدی ** پیشه‌ی بی‌اوستا حاصل شدی 1300
  • If knowledge of a trade were (derived) from this intellect, any trade would be acquired without a master.

  • آموختن پیشه گورکنی قابیل از زاغ پیش از آنک در عالم علم گورکنی و گور بود
  • How Qábíl (Cain) learned the trade of grave-digging from the crow (raven), before knowledge of grave-digging and graves existed in the world.

  • کندن گوری که کمتر پیشه بود ** کی ز فکر و حیله و اندیشه بود
  • When was grave-digging, which was the meanest trade (of all), (acquired) from thought and cunning and meditation?

  • گر بدی این فهم مر قابیل را ** کی نهادی بر سر او هابیل را
  • If Qábíl had possessed this understanding, how should he have placed (the body of) Hábíl (Abel) on his head?—

  • که کجا غایب کنم این کشته را ** این به خون و خاک در آغشته را
  • Saying, “Where shall I hide this murdered one, this man bestained with blood and earth?”

  • دید زاغی زاغ مرده در دهان ** بر گرفته تیز می‌آمد چنان
  • He espied a crow which had taken up a dead crow in its mouth and was approaching (ever) so quickly.

  • از هوا زیر آمد و شد او به فن ** از پی تعلیم او را گورکن 1305
  • It came down from the air and began skilfully to dig a grave for it (the dead crow) for the purpose of teaching (him).

  • پس به چنگال از زمین انگیخت گرد ** زود زاغ مرده را در گور کرد
  • Then with its talons it raised dust from the ground and speedily put the dead crow in the grave.