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1327-1336

  • گاو گر واقف ز قصابان بدی ** کی پی ایشان بدان دکان شدی
  • If the cow were acquainted with the butchers, how should she follow them to that (butcher's) shop,

  • یا بخوردی از کف ایشان سبوس ** یا بدادی شیرشان از چاپلوس
  • Or eat bran from their hands, or give them milk on account of (their) coaxing (her)?

  • ور بخوردی کی علف هضمش شدی ** گر ز مقصود علف واقف بدی
  • And if she ate, how should the fodder be digested by her, if she were aware of the purpose of the fodder?

  • پس ستون این جهان خود غفلتست ** چیست دولت کین دوادو با لتست 1330
  • Heedlessness (delusion), then, is in sooth the pillar (support) of this world: what is dawlat (worldly fortune)? for this dawádaw (running to and fro) is (accompanied) with lat (blows).

  • اولش دو دو به آخر لت بخور ** جز درین ویرانه نبود مرگ خر
  • The beginning thereof is daw, daw (run, run); in the end (it is) lat khwar (suffer blows): the death of the ass is not (occurring) except in this wilderness.

  • تو به جد کاری که بگرفتی به دست ** عیبش این دم بر تو پوشیده شدست
  • Whenever thou hast earnestly taken a work in hand, its faultiness has become veiled to thee at this moment.

  • زان همی تانی بدادن تن به کار ** که بپوشید از تو عیبش کردگار
  • Thou art able to give thyself up to the work, (only) because the Creator veils its faultiness from thee.

  • همچنین هر فکر که گرمی در آن ** عیب آن فکرت شدست از تو نهان
  • Likewise, (with) every thought in which thou art hot (eager), the faultiness of that thought of thine has become hidden from thee.

  • بر تو گر پیدا شدی زو عیب و شین ** زو رمیدی جانت بعد المشرقین 1335
  • If its faultiness and disgrace were made visible to thee, thy soul would flee from it (as far as) the distance between east and west.

  • حال که آخر زو پشیمان می‌شوی ** گر بود این حال اول کی دوی
  • The state (of mind) in which at last thou repentest of it (of a faulty action)—if this should be thy state (of mind) at first, how wouldst thou run (for the sake of that action)?