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  • گر نخواهی نکس پیش این طبیب ** بر زمین زن زر و سر را ای لبیب
  • If you do not desire (to suffer a) relapse in the presence of this Physician, dash to the ground your gold (zar) and your head (sar), O man of understanding.

  • گفت افزون را تو بفروش و بخر ** بذل جان و بذل جاه و بذل زر
  • Sell your superfluous speech and buy sacrifice of life and sacrifice of position and sacrifice of gold,

  • تا ثنای تو بگوید فضل هو ** که حسد آرد فلک بر جاه تو
  • That the grace of Him (Hú) may utter praise of you, so that Heaven will be envious of your high estate.

  • چون طبیبان را نگه دارید دل ** خود ببینید و شوید ازخود خجل 2730
  • When ye have regard for the hearts (feelings and wishes) of the physicians, ye will see yourselves and will become ashamed of yourselves.

  • دفع این کوری بدست خلق نیست ** لیک اکرام طبیبان از هدیست
  • ’Tis not in the power of created beings to remove this blindness, but the honouring of the physicians (by you) is from Divine guidance.

  • این طبیبان را به جان بنده شوید ** تا به مشک و عنبر آکنده شوید
  • Become devoted to these physicians with (all your) soul, that ye may be filled with musk and ambergris.

  • متهم داشتن قوم انبیا را
  • How the people suspected the prophets.

  • قوم گفتند این همه زرقست و مکر ** کی خدا نایب کند از زید و بکر
  • The people said, “All this is fraud and deceit: how should God make a vicar of Zayd and Bakr?

  • هر رسول شاه باید جنس او ** آب و گل کو خالق افلاک کو
  • Every king's messenger must be of his (the king's) kind: where are water and clay in comparison with the Creator of the heavens?

  • مغز خر خوردیم تا ما چون شما ** پشه را داریم همراز هما 2735
  • Have we eaten ass's brains that we, like you, should deem a gnat to be the confidant of the humá?

  • کو هما کو پشه کو گل کو خدا ** ز آفتاب چرخ چه بود ذره را
  • Where is a gnat in comparison with the humá? Where is earth in comparison with God? What relation to the mote has the sun in the sky?

  • این چه نسبت این چه پیوندی بود ** تاکه در عقل و دماغی در رود
  • What resemblance is this, and what connexion is this, that it should enter into any mind and brain?

  • حکایت خرگوشان کی خرگوشی راپیش پیل فرستادند کی بگو کی من رسول ماه آسمانم پیش تو کی ازین چشمه آب حذر کن چنانک در کتاب کلیله تمام گفته است
  • Story of the hares who sent a hare as ambassador to the elephant, bidding him say, ‘I come to thee as the ambassador of the Moon in heaven to bid thee beware of (drinking from) this water-spring,’ as is told in full in the Book of Kalíla (and Dimna).

  • این بدان ماند که خرگوشی بگفت ** من رسول ماهم و با ماه جفت
  • This (claim made by you) resembles the saying of a certain hare—‘I am the ambassador of the Moon and companion to the Moon.’

  • کز رمه‌ی پیلان بر آن چشمه‌ی زلال ** جمله نخجیران بدند اندر وبال
  • For all the beasts of chase were in woe on account of a herd of elephants (dwelling) beside that limpid spring;

  • جمله محروم و ز خوف از چشمه دور ** حیله‌ای کردند چون کم بود زور 2740
  • All were deprived (of water) and (were kept) far from the spring by dread: since (their) strength was inferior, they made a plot.

  • از سر که بانگ زد خرگوش زال ** سوی پیلان در شب غره‌ی هلال
  • From the mountain-top the old hare cried towards the elephants on the first night of the new-moon—

  • که بیا رابع عشر ای شاه‌پیل ** تا درون چشمه یابی این دلیل
  • ‘Come on the fourteenth, O king elephant, that thou mayst find within the spring the proof of this (assertion).

  • شاه‌پیلا من رسولم پیش بیست ** بر رسولان بند و زجر و خشم نیست
  • O king elephant, I am the ambassador in thy presence. Stop! Ambassadors are not subjected to imprisonment and violence and wrath.

  • ماه می‌گوید که ای پیلان روید ** چشمه آن ماست زین یکسو شوید
  • The Moon says, “O elephants, depart! The spring is mine, turn aside from it;

  • ورنه منتان کور گردانم ستم ** گفتم از گردن برون انداختم 2745
  • And if (ye depart) not, I will make you blind. I have declared the wrong (which ye are doing) and have thrown off my neck (all responsibility for what will happen if ye trespass farther).

  • ترک این چشمه بگویید و روید ** تا ز زخم تیغ مه آمن شوید
  • Take leave of this spring and depart, that ye may be safe from the blows of the Moon's sword.”

  • نک نشان آنست کاندر چشمه ماه ** مضطرب گردد ز پیل آب‌خواه
  • Lo, the token (of my veracity) is that the Moon (reflected) in the spring will be disturbed by the water-craving elephant.

  • آن فلان شب حاضر آ ای شاه‌پیل ** تا درون چشمه یابی زین دلیل
  • Come and be present on the such-and-such a night, O king elephant, in order that within the spring thou mayst find the proof of this (assertion).’

  • چونک هفت و هشت از مه بگذرید ** شاه‌پیل آمد ز چشمه می‌چرید
  • When seven and eight (fifteen nights) of the month had passed, the king elephant came to drink from the spring.

  • چونک زد خرطوم پیل آن شب درآب ** مضطرب شد آب ومه کرد اضطراب 2750
  • When on that night the elephant put his trunk in the water, the water was disturbed, and the Moon showed disturbance.

  • پیل باور کرد از وی آن خطاب ** چون درون چشمه مه کرد اضطراب
  • The elephant believed that speech of his (the hare's), when the Moon in the spring showed disturbance.

  • مانه زان پیلان گولیم ای گروه ** که اضطراب ماه آردمان شکوه
  • O company (of prophets), we are not (to be reckoned) among those stupid elephants who are terrified by the disturbance of the Moon.”

  • انبیا گفتند آوه پند جان ** سخت‌تر کرد ای سفیهان بندتان
  • The prophets said, “Ah, (our) spiritual admonition has (only) made your (carnal) bondage more grievous, O ye fools!

  • جواب گفتن انبیا طعن ایشان را و مثل زدن ایشان را
  • How the prophets answered their sneers and uttered parables unto them.

  • ای دریغا که دوا در رنجتان ** گشت زهر قهر جان آهنجتان
  • Oh, alas that in (the case of) your disease the remedy has become for you the poison of soul-wringing (Divine) vengeance.

  • ظلمت افزود این چراغ آن چشم را ** چون خدا بگماشت پرده‌ی خشم را 2755
  • This lamp (of spiritual admonition) has increased the darkness of that (diseased) eye, since God has set (over it) the veil of wrath.

  • چه رئیسی جست خواهیم از شما ** که ریاستمان فزونست از سما
  • What dominion shall we crave from you? for our dominion is greater than the sky.”

  • چه شرف یابد ز کشتی بحر در ** خاصه کشتیی ز سرگین گشته پر
  • What glory should the sea of pearls acquire from the ship— especially a ship that has been filled with dung?

  • ای دریغ آن دیده‌ی کور و کبود ** آفتابی اندرو ذره نمود
  • Oh, alas for that eye blind and blear! Therein a sun seemed as (insignificant as) a mote.

  • ز آدمی که بود بی مثل و ندید ** دیده ابلیس جز طینی ندید
  • In an Adam who was without like or equal the eye of Iblís discerned naught but a piece of clay.

  • چشم دیوانه بهارش دی نمود ** زان طرف جنبید کو را خانه بود 2760
  • The devilish eye showed (saw) his (Adam's) spring as winter: it moved in the direction where its (original) home was.

  • ای بسا دولت که آید گاه گاه ** پیش بی‌دولت بگردد او ز راه
  • Oh, many a fortune that comes now and then to the unfortunate one, and he turns away (from it)!

  • ای بسا معشوق کاید ناشناخت ** پیش بدبختی نداند عشق باخت
  • Oh, many a beloved who comes unbeknown to an ill-starred one, and he knows not how to make love!

  • این غلط‌ده دیده را حرمان ماست ** وین مقلب قلب را س القضاست
  • This that misleads the eye is our (original) damnation, and this that turns the heart (from seeing the truth) is (our) evil destiny.

  • چون بت سنگین شما را قبله شد ** لعنت و کوری شما را ظله شد
  • Since to you the idol of stone has become an object of adoration, the curse (of God) and blindness have o’ershadowed you.

  • چون بشاید سنگتان انباز حق ** چون نشاید عقل و جان همراز حق 2765
  • When your stone is a fitting partner for God, how are not intellect and spirit fitting confidants of God?

  • پشه‌ی مرده هما را شد شریک ** چون نشاید زنده همراز ملیک
  • The dead gnat has become the consort of the humá: how (then) is the living one not fit to be the confidant of the King?

  • یا مگر مرده تراشیده‌ی شماست ** پشه‌ی زنده تراشیده‌ی خداست
  • Or, maybe, (’tis because) the dead one is fashioned by you, (whereas) the living gnat is fashioned by God.

  • عاشق خویشید و صنعت‌کرد خویش ** دم ماران را سر مارست کیش
  • Ye are in love with yourselves and the thing manufactured by yourselves: to serpents' tails the serpent's head is a law.

  • نه در آن دم دولتی و نعمتی ** نه در آن سر راحتی و لذتی
  • In that tail there is no fortune or happiness; in that head there is no pleasure or delight.

  • گرد سر گردان بود آن دم مار ** لایق‌اند و درخورند آن هر دو یار 2770
  • That serpent's tail is circling around the head: both those friends are fit and suited (to each other).

  • آنچنان گوید حکیم غزنوی ** در الهی‌نامه گر خوش بشنوی
  • So says the Sage of Ghazna in the Iláhí-náma, if thou wilt hearken well—

  • کم فضولی کن تو در حکم قدر ** درخور آمد شخص خر با گوش خر
  • “Do not behave as a (presumptuous) meddler in the decree of (Divine) fore-ordainment: the ass's shape is suited to the ass's ear.”

  • شد مناسب عضوها و ابدانها ** شد مناسب وصفها با جانها
  • Limbs and bodies are congruous; qualities are congruous with souls.

  • وصف هر جانی تناسب باشدش ** بی گمان با جان که حق بتراشدش
  • Unquestionably the quality of every soul has congruity with the soul; for God fashions it (accordingly).

  • چون صفت با جان قرین کردست او ** پس مناسب دانش همچون چشم و رو 2775
  • Inasmuch as He hath joined the quality to the soul, know that it (the quality) is congruous, like eyes and face.

  • شد مناسب وصفها در خوب و زشت ** شد مناسب حرفها که حق نبشت
  • The (good and evil) qualities are congruous in the good and evil (souls): congruous are the letters that God hath written.