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  • کافران هم جنس شیطان آمده ** جانشان شاگرد شیطانان شده
  • The infidels have become homogeneous with Satan: their spirits have become disciples of the devils.

  • صد هزاران خوی بد آموخته ** دیده‌های عقل و دل بر دوخته 2675
  • They have learned a hundred thousand evil dispositions; they have sewn up the eyes of intellect and heart.

  • کمترین خوشان به زشتی آن حسد ** آن حسد که گردن ابلیس زد
  • Their least ugly disposition is envy—that envy which smote the neck of (destroyed) Iblís.

  • زان سگان آموخته حقد و حسد ** که نخواهد خلق را ملک ابد
  • From those curs they have learned hatred and envy, for he (Satan) does not wish the kingdom everlasting (to be granted) to (God's) creatures.

  • هر کرا دید او کمال از چپ و راست ** از حسد قولنجش آمد درد خاست
  • When he sees, on left or right, any one perfect, colic comes to him and pain arises (in him) from envy,

  • زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن‌سوخته ** می‌نخواهد شمع کس افروخته
  • Because every miserable wretch whose stack has been burnt is unwilling that any one's candle should be lighted.

  • هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم ** از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم 2680
  • Hark, bring to hand (acquire) some (degree of) perfection, in order that thou too mayst not be aggrieved by the perfection of others.

  • از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد
  • Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,

  • مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون ** که نپردازی از آن سوی برون
  • And bestow on thee an inward occupation, from which thou wilt not become disengaged (so as to turn thy attention) outwards.

  • جرعه‌ی می را خدا آن می‌دهد ** که بدو مست از دو عالم می‌دهد
  • God gives to a draught of wine such (potency) that one intoxicated with it escapes from the two worlds.

  • خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش
  • He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.

  • خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند 2685
  • God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds.

  • کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی
  • He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.

  • صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او
  • He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.

  • هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را
  • For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.

  • هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را
  • For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.

  • خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش 2690
  • Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction.

  • هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو
  • Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.

  • این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها
  • Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;

  • زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در
  • For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.

  • می‌شناسا هین بچش با احتیاط ** تا میی یابی منزه ز اختلاط
  • O connoisseur of wine, beware, taste with precaution, that thou mayst find a wine free from adulteration.

  • هر دو مستی می‌دهندت لیک این ** مستی‌ات آرد کشان تا رب دین 2695
  • Both (jars) will intoxicate thee, but this (blessed) intoxication, drawing (thee along), will lead thee to the Lord of the Judgement,

  • تا رهی از فکر و وسواس و حیل ** بی عقال این عقل در رقص‌الجمل
  • So that thou wilt be delivered from thought and anxiety and expedients, (whilst) this intellect (moves) unshackled at the camel's ambling pace.

  • انبیا چون جنس روحند و ملک ** مر ملک را جذب کردند از فلک
  • Since the prophets are homogeneous with spirit and angel, they drew angels from heaven.

  • باد جنس آتش است و یار او ** که بود آهنگ هر دو بر علو
  • Wind (air) is the congener and friend of fire, for the tendency of both is upward.