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  • یک جوانی را گزید او از هذیل ** میر لشکر کردش و سالار خیل
  • He chose a youth of Hudhayl and appointed him commander of the army and leader of the cavalry.

  • اصل لشکر بی‌گمان سرور بود ** قوم بی‌سرور تن بی‌سر بود
  • The foundation of an army is unquestionably the chief in command: a people without a chief are a body without a head.

  • این همه که مرده و پژمرده‌ای ** زان بود که ترک سرور کرده‌ای 1995
  • That you are (spiritually) dead and decrepit—all this is because you have abandoned the chief.

  • از کسل وز بخل وز ما و منی ** می‌کشی سر خویش را سر می‌کنی
  • On account of laziness and avarice and egoism you are drawing your head back (behaving in a headstrong manner) and making yourself the head.

  • هم‌چو استوری که بگریزد ز بار ** او سر خود گیرد اندر کوهسار
  • (You are) like the beast that flees from the burden: it takes its head (goes its own way) into the mountains.

  • صاحبش در پی دوان کای خیره سر ** هر طرف گرگیست اندر قصد خر
  • Its master is running after it, crying, “O giddy-headed one, on every side there is a wolf in quest of an ass.

  • گر ز چشمم این زمان غایب شوی ** پیشت آید هر طرف گرگ قوی
  • If thou disappear now from mine eye, the mighty wolf will approach thee from every direction.

  • استخوانت را بخاید چون شکر ** که نبینی زندگانی را دگر 2000
  • He will chew thy bones like sugar, so that thou wilt never see life again.

  • آن مگیر آخر بمانی از علف ** آتش از بی‌هیزمی گردد تلف
  • (Or) do not suppose that (immediate destruction); at any rate thou wilt be left without fodder: fire is (finally) extinguished by lack of faggots.

  • هین بمگریز از تصرف کردنم ** وز گرانی بار که جانت منم
  • Beware! Do not flee from my control and from the heaviness of the burden, for I am thy (rational) soul.”

  • تو ستوری هم که نفست غالبست ** حکم غالب را بود ای خودپرست
  • You also are a beast (of burden), for your carnal soul predominates: the predominant (quality) determines (a thing's nature), O worshipper of self.

  • خر نخواندت اسپ خواندت ذوالجلال ** اسپ تازی را عرب گوید تعال
  • The Almighty did not call you an ass, He called you a horse: the Arabs say to the Arab horse “ta‘ál” (“come”).

  • میر آخر بود حق را مصطفی ** بهر استوران نفس پر جفا 2005
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) was God's stable-overseer for the beasts, (which are) the iniquitous carnal soul.

  • قل تعالوا گفت از جذب کرم ** تا ریاضتتان دهم من رایضم
  • Moved by lovingkindness, He (God) said, “Say, ‘ta‘álaw (come ye), to the end that I may train you: I am the trainer.’”

  • نفسها را تا مروض کرده‌ام ** زین ستوران بس لگدها خورده‌ام
  • (The Prophet said), “Since I have trained the carnal souls, I have suffered many kicks from these beasts.

  • هر کجا باشد ریاضت‌باره‌ای ** از لگدهااش نباشد چاره‌ای
  • Wherever there is one fond of training, he hath no means of avoiding kicks.

  • لاجرم اغلب بلا بر انبیاست ** که ریاضت دادن خامان بلاست
  • Of necessity the most affliction falls on the prophets, for ’tis an affliction to give training to the raw (ignorant).

  • سکسکانید از دمم یرغا روید ** تا یواش و مرکب سلطان شوید 2010
  • Ye are stumbling along: at my word (in obedience to my command) go at a jog-trot, that ye may become gentle and be suitable for the king to ride.

  • قل تعالوا قل تعالو گفت رب ** ای ستوران رمیده از ادب
  • The Lord said, ‘Say, Come ye, say, Come ye, O beasts that have shied away from discipline.

  • گر نیایند ای نبی غمگین مشو ** زان دو بی‌تمکین تو پر از کین مشو
  • If they come not, O Prophet, be not grieved: be not full of hatred on account of those twain without steadfastness.’”

  • گوش بعضی زین تعالواها کرست ** هر ستوری را صطبلی دیگرست
  • The ears of some are deaf to these (cries of) ta‘álaw: every beast hath a different stable.

  • منهزم گردند بعضی زین ندا ** هست هر اسپی طویله‌ی او جدا
  • Some are put to flight by this call: the stall of every horse is separate.

  • منقبض گردند بعضی زین قصص ** زانک هر مرغی جدا دارد قفص 2015
  • Some are chagrined by this story, for every bird hath a separate cage.

  • خود ملایک نیز ناهمتا بدند ** زین سبب بر آسمان صف صف شدند
  • Even the angels too were not peers: for this reason they formed diverse ranks in Heaven.

  • کودکان گرچه به یک مکتب درند ** در سبق هر یک ز یک بالاترند
  • Children, though they are at one (the same) school, surpass each other in (their) lessons.