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1981-1990

  • چونک کردی دشمنی پرهیز کن ** مشورت با یار مهرانگیز کن
  • Since you have behaved with enmity (towards me), abstain (from consulting me): consult a friend who arouses (your) affection.”

  • گفت می‌دانم ترا ای بوالحسن ** که توی دیرینه دشمن‌دار من
  • He replied, “I know you, O Bu ’l-Hasan, to be one who has long deemed me an enemy;

  • لیک مرد عاقلی و معنوی ** عقل تو نگذاردت که کژ روی
  • But you are a reasonable and spiritual man: your reason will not allow you to go crookedly (play false).”

  • طبع خواهد تا کشد از خصم کین ** عقل بر نفس است بند آهنین
  • The (carnal) nature desires to take revenge on its adversary: the reason is an iron chain upon the flesh.

  • آید و منعش کند وا داردش ** عقل چون شحنه‌ست در نیک و بدش 1985
  • It comes and prevents it (the flesh) and restrains it: the reason is like a police-inspector for it in its good and evil (actions).

  • عقل ایمانی چو شحنه‌ی عادلست ** پاسبان و حاکم شهر دلست
  • The reason that is allied to Faith is like a just police-inspector: it is the guardian and magistrate of the city of the heart.

  • هم‌چو گربه باشد او بیدارهوش ** دزد در سوراخ ماند هم‌چو موش
  • It is mentally alert like a cat: the thief remains in the hole, like a mouse.

  • در هر آنجا که برآرد موش دست ** نیست گربه یا که نقش گربه است
  • Wherever the mouse gets the upper hand, no cat is there, or (at least) there is (only) the (unreal) form of a cat.

  • گربه‌ی چه شیر شیرافکن بود ** عقل ایمانی که اندر تن بود
  • What cat (is to be compared with the reason)? The Faith-regarding reason which is in the body is the lion that overthrows the lions.

  • غره‌ی او حاکم درندگان ** نعره‌ی او مانع چرندگان 1990
  • Its roar is the magistrate (controller) of the tearing (carnivorous) animals; its shout is the preventer of the browsing (herbivorous) animals.