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1263-1272

  • ورچه عقلت هست با عقل دگر ** یار باش و مشورت کن ای پدر
  • Even if thou hast intellect, associate and consult with another intellect, O father.

  • با دو عقل از بس بلاها وا رهی ** پای خود بر اوج گردونها نهی
  • With two intellects thou wilt be delivered from many afflictions: thou wilt plant thy foot on the summit of the heavens.

  • دیو گر خود را سلیمان نام کرد ** ملک برد و مملکت را رام کرد 1265
  • If the Demon called himself Solomon and won the kingdom and made the empire subject (to him),

  • صورت کار سلیمان دیده بود ** صورت اندر سر دیوی می‌نمود
  • (It was because) he had seen (and imitated) the form of Solomon's action; (but) within the form the spirit of demonry was appearing.

  • خلق گفتند این سلیمان بی‌صفاست ** از سلیمان تا سلیمان فرقهاست
  • The people said, “This Solomon is without excellence: there are (great) differences between (that) Solomon and (this) Solomon.”

  • او چو بیداریست این هم‌چون وسن ** هم‌چنانک آن حسن با این حسن
  • He (the former) is like wakefulness, this one is like sleep; (there is as much difference) as between that Hasan and this Hasan.

  • دیو می‌گفتی که حق بر شکل من ** صورتی کردست خوش بر اهرمن
  • The Demon would reply, “God has bestowed on Ahriman a pleasing form (aspect) in the likeness of me.

  • دیو را حق صورت من داده است ** تا نیندازد شما را او بشست 1270
  • God hath given my aspect to the Devil: let him not cast you into his net!

  • گر پدید آید به دعوی زینهار ** صورت او را مدارید اعتبار
  • If he appear with the pretence (that he is really I), beware! Do not have regard to his (outward) form.”

  • دیوشان از مکر این می‌گفت لیک ** می‌نمود این عکس در دلهای نیک
  • The Demon was saying this to them from guile, but in good (enlightened) hearts the reverse of this was apparent.