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طوطی اندر گفت آمد در زمان ** بانگ بر درویش زد که هی فلان 260
- Thereupon the parrot cried to the dervish, as rational persons (might have done).
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از چه ای کل با کلان آمیختی ** تو مگر از شیشه روغن ریختی
- How were you mixed up with the bald, O baldpate? Did you, then, spill oil from the bottle?”
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از قیاسش خنده آمد خلق را ** کو چو خود پنداشت صاحب دلق را
- The bystanders laughed at the parrot's inference, because it deemed the wearer of the frock to be like itself.
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کار پاکان را قیاس از خود مگیر ** گر چه ماند در نبشتن شیر و شیر
- Do not measure the actions of holy men by (the analogy of) yourself, though shér (lion) and shír (milk) are similar in writing.
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جمله عالم زین سبب گمراه شد ** کم کسی ز ابدال حق آگاه شد
- On this account the whole world is gone astray: scarcely any one is cognisant of God's Abdál (Substitutes).
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همسری با انبیا برداشتند ** اولیا را همچو خود پنداشتند 265
- They set up (a claim of) equality with the prophets; they supposed the saints to be like themselves.
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گفته اینک ما بشر ایشان بشر ** ما و ایشان بستهی خوابیم و خور
- “Behold,” they said, “we are men, they are men; both we and they are in bondage to sleep and food.”
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این ندانستند ایشان از عمی ** هست فرقی در میان بیمنتها
- In (their) blindness they did not perceive that there is an infinite difference between (them).
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هر دو گون زنبور خوردند از محل ** لیک شد ز ان نیش و زین دیگر عسل
- Both species of zanbúr ate and drank from the (same) place, but from that one (the hornet) came a sting, and from this other (the bee) honey.
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هر دو گون آهو گیا خوردند و آب ** زین یکی سرگین شد و ز ان مشک ناب
- Both species of deer ate grass and drank water: from this one came dung, and from that one pure musk.