این چنین کس گر ذکی مطلقست ** چونش این تمییز نبود احمقست

If such a one is absolutely keen-witted, (still), when he has not this (power of) discernment, he is a fool.

هین ازو بگریز چون آهو ز شیر ** سوی او مشتاق ای دانا دلیر

Hark, flee from him as the deer from the lion: do not hasten boldly towards him, O wise man!

گریختن عیسی علیه السلام فراز کوه از احمقان

How Jesus, on whom be peace, fled to the top of a mountain (to escape) from the fools.

عیسی مریم به کوهی می‌گریخت ** شیرگویی خون او می‌خواست ریخت 2570

Jesus, son of Mary, was fleeing to a mountain: you would say that a lion wished to shed his blood.

آن یکی در پی دوید و گفت خیر ** در پیت کس نیست چه گریزی چو طیر

A certain man ran after him and said, “(Is it) well (with thee)? There is no one in pursuit of thee: why dost thou flee, like a bird?”

با شتاب او آنچنان می‌تاخت جفت ** کز شتاب خود جواب او نگفت

(But) he (Jesus) still kept running with haste so (quickly) that on account of his haste he did not answer him.

یک دو میدان در پی عیسی براند ** پس بجد جد عیسی را بخواند

He pushed on in pursuit of Jesus for the distance of one or two fields, and then invoked Jesus with the utmost earnestness,

کز پی مرضات حق یک لحظه بیست ** که مرا اندر گریزت مشکلیست

Saying, “For the sake of pleasing God, stop one moment, for I have a difficulty concerning thy flight.

از کی این سو می‌گریزی ای کریم ** نه پیت شیر و نه خصم و خوف و بیم 2575

From whom art thou fleeing in this direction, O noble one? There is no lion pursuing thee, no enemy, and there is no fear or danger.”

گفت از احمق گریزانم برو ** می‌رهانم خویش را بندم مشو

He said, “I am fleeing from the fool. Begone! I am saving myself. Do not debar me!”

گفت آخر آن مسیحا نه توی ** که شود کور و کر از تو مستوی

“Why,” said he, “art not thou the Messiah by whom the blind and the deaf are restored (to sight and hearing)?”