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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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • هر دو نی خوردند از یک آب خور ** این یکی خالی و آن پر از شکر 270
  • Both reeds drank from the same water-source, (but) this one is empty and that one full of sugar.

  • صد هزاران این چنین اشباه بین ** فرقشان هفتاد ساله راه بین‌‌
  • Consider hundreds of thousands of such likenesses and observe that the distance between the two is (as great as) a seventy years' journey.

  • این خورد گردد پلیدی زو جدا ** آن خورد گردد همه نور خدا
  • This one eats, and filth is discharged from him; that one eats, and becomes entirely the light of God.

  • این خورد زاید همه بخل و حسد ** و آن خورد زاید همه نور احد
  • This one eats, (and of him) is born nothing but avarice and envy; that one eats, (and of him) is born nothing but the Light of the One (God).

  • این زمین پاک و ان شوره ست و بد ** این فرشته‌‌ی پاک و ان دیو است و دد
  • This one is good (fertile) soil and that one brackish and bad; this one is a fair angel and that one a devil and wild beast.

  • هر دو صورت گر بهم ماند رواست ** آب تلخ و آب شیرین را صفاست‌‌ 275
  • If both resemble each other in aspect, it may well be (so): bitter water and sweet water have (the same) clearness.

  • جز که صاحب ذوق کی شناسد بیاب ** او شناسد آب خوش از شوره آب‌‌
  • Who knows (the difference) except a man possessed of (spiritual) taste? Find (him): he knows the sweet water from the brine.