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290-314

  • سر به گوشش برد هم‌چون رازگو ** پس نهاد آن چیز بر بینی او 290
  • He brought his head (close) to his ear, like one telling a secret; then he put the thing (which he had in his hand) to his (the tanner’s) nose;

  • کو به کف سرگین سگ ساییده بود ** داروی مغز پلید آن دیده بود
  • For he had rubbed the dog’s dung on his palm: he had deemed it (to be) the remedy for the polluted brain.

  • ساعتی شد مرد جنبیدن گرفت ** خلق گفتند این فسونی بد شگفت
  • A short while passed: the man began to move: the people said, “This was a wonderful charm;

  • کین بخواند افسون به گوش او دمید ** مرده بود افسون به فریادش رسید
  • For this (youth) recited charms and breathed (them) into his ear: he was dead: the charms came to succour him.”

  • جنبش اهل فساد آن سو بود ** که زنا و غمزه و ابرو بود
  • The movement of iniquitous folk is to the quarter in which there is fornication and ogling glances and eyebrows.

  • هر کرا مشک نصیحت سود نیست ** لا جرم با بوی بد خو کردنیست 295
  • Any one to whom the musk, admonition, is of no use must necessarily make himself familiar with the bad smell.

  • مشرکان را زان نجس خواندست حق ** کاندرون پشک زادند از سبق
  • God has called the polytheists najas (uncleanness)’ for the reason that they were born in dung from of old.

  • کرم کو زادست در سرگین ابد ** می‌نگرداند به عنبر خوی خود
  • The worm that has been born in dung will nevermore change its evil nature by means of ambergris.

  • چون نزد بر وی نثار رش نور ** او همه جسمست بی‌دل چون قشور
  • Since the largesse of sprinkled light did not strike upon him (the wicked man), he is wholly body, without heart (spirit), like (empty) husks.

  • ور ز رش نور حق قسمیش داد ** هم‌چو رسم مصر سرگین مرغ‌زاد
  • And if God gave him a portion of the sprinkled light, the dung hatched a bird, as is the custom in Egypt— so

  • لیک نه مرغ خسیس خانگی ** بلک مرغ دانش و فرزانگی 300
  • But not the cheap domestic fowl; nay, but the bird of know ledge and wisdom.

  • تو بدان مانی کز آن نوری تهی ** زآنک بینی بر پلیدی می‌نهی
  • “Thou resemblest that (wicked man) for thou art devoid of that light, inasmuch as thou art putting thy nose to filth.

  • از فراقت زرد شد رخسار و رو ** برگ زردی میوه‌ی ناپخته تو
  • Because of being parted (from me) thy cheeks and face have become yellow (pale): thou art (a tree with) yellow leaves and unripened fruit,

  • دیگ ز آتش شد سیاه و دودفام ** گوشت از سختی چنین ماندست خام
  • The pot was blackened by the fire and became like smoke in colour, (but) the meat, on account of (its) hardness, has remained so raw as this!

  • هشت سالت جوش دادم در فراق ** کم نشد یک ذره خامیت و نفاق
  • Eight years have I boiled, thee in separation (from me): thy rawness and hypocrisy have not become less by a single mote.

  • غوره‌ی تو سنگ بسته کز سقام ** غوره‌ها اکنون مویزند و تو خام 305
  • Thy young grape is indurated; for through sickness the (other) young grapes are now raisins, while thou art (still) immature.”

  • عذر خواستن آن عاشق از گناه خویش به تلبیس و روی پوش و فهم کردن معشوق آن را نیز
  • How the lover begged to be excused for his sin, (but) with duplicity and dissimulation; and how the beloved perceived that also.

  • گفت عاشق امتحان کردم مگیر ** تا ببینم تو حریفی یا ستیر
  • The lover said, “I made the trial—do not take offence—that I might see whether thou art a hetaera or a modest woman. [The lover said, “I made the trial—do not take offence—that I might see whether thou art a courtesan or a modest woman.]

  • من همی دانستمت بی‌امتحان ** لیک کی باشد خبر هم‌چون عیان
  • I was knowing (it) without the trial, but how should hearing be the same as seeing?

  • آفتابی نام تو مشهور و فاش ** چه زیانست ار بکردم ابتلاش
  • Thou art (like) the sun: thy name is renowned and known to all: what harm is there if I have tested it?

  • تو منی من خویشتن را امتحان ** می‌کنم هر روز در سود و زیان
  • Thou art I: every day I am making trial of myself in profit and loss (good and evil).

  • انبیا را امتحان کرده عدات ** تا شده ظاهر ازیشان معجزات 310
  • The prophets were put to the trial by their enemies, with the result that miracles were displayed by them.

  • امتحان چشم خود کردم به نور ** ای که چشم بد ز چشمان تو دور
  • I made trial of my own eye with light, O thou from whose eyes may the evil eye be far!

  • این جهان هم‌چون خرابست و تو گنج ** گر تفحص کردم از گنجت مرنج
  • This world is as the ruin, and thou the treasure (buried there): if I have made investigation concerning thy treasure, be not aggrieved.

  • زان چنین بی‌خردگی کردم گزاف ** تا زنم با دشمنان هر بار لاف
  • I recklessly committed such an indiscretion, that I may always boast (of thy virtue) to (thy) enemies;

  • تا زبانم چون ترا نامی نهد ** چشم ازین دیده گواهیها دهد
  • So that, when my tongue bestows a name on thee, my eye may give testimonies of this which I have seen.