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  • هر سه زان خوردند و بس فربه شدند ** چون سه پیل بس بزرگ و مه شدند
  • All the three ate thereof and grew exceedingly fat: they became like three very great and big elephants,

  • آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان
  • In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.

  • با چنین گبزی و هفت اندام زفت ** از شکاف در برون جستند و رفت
  • Notwithstanding such bigness and seven stout limbs, they sprang forth through a chink in the door and departed.

  • راه مرگ خلق ناپیدا رهیست ** در نظر ناید که آن بی‌جا رهیست 2625
  • The way of creaturely death is an invisible way: it comes not into sight, for it is a way without locality.

  • نک پیاپی کاروانها مقتفی ** زین شکاف در که هست آن مختفی
  • Lo, the caravans are following one after another through this chink which is hidden (from view) in the door.

  • بر در ار جویی نیابی آن شکاف ** سخت ناپیدا و زو چندین زفاف
  • If you look on the door for that chink, you will not find it: (it is) extremely unapparent, though (there are) so many processions through it.

  • شرح آن کور دوربین و آن کر تیزشنو و آن برهنه دراز دامن
  • Explaining (what is signified by) the far-sighted blind man, the deaf man who is sharp of hearing, and the naked man with the long skirts.

  • کر امل را دان که مرگ ما شنید ** مرگ خود نشنید و نقل خود ندید
  • Know that Hope is the deaf man who has (often) heard of our dying, (but) has not heard of his own death or regarded his own decease.

  • حرص نابیناست بیند مو بمو ** عیب خلقان و بگوید کو بکو
  • The blind man is Greed: he sees other people's faults, hair by hair, and tells them from street to street,

  • عیب خود یک ذره چشم کور او ** می‌نبیند گرچه هست او عیب‌جو 2630
  • (But) his blind eyes do not perceive one mote of his own faults, albeit he is a fault-finder.

  • عور می‌ترسد که دامانش برند ** دامن مرد برهنه چون درند
  • The naked man is afraid that his skirt will be cut off: how should they (any one) cut off the skirt of a naked man?