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  • ضعف اندر ضعف و کبرش آنچنان ** که به خواری بنگرد در واصلان
  • Weakness on weakness! (Yet) his arrogance is such that he regards with contempt those that attain (to God).

  • ای شتر که تو مثال مومنی ** کم فتی در رو و کم بینی زنی
  • O camel, thou who art a type of the true believer dost not fall on thy face, nor dost thou turn up thy nose (in disdain).

  • تو چه داری که چنین بی‌آفتی ** بی‌عثاری و کم اندر رو فتی 3390
  • What hast thou that thou art so untouched by bane and free from stumbling and dost not fall on thy face?”

  • گفت گر چه هر سعادت از خداست ** در میان ما و تو بس فرقهاست
  • He (the camel) said, “Though every felicity is from God, there are many differences between me and thee.

  • سر بلندم من دو چشم من بلند ** بینش عالی امانست از گزند
  • I have a high head, my eyes are high: lofty vision is a protection against injury.

  • از سر که من ببینم پای کوه ** هر گو و هموار را من توه توه
  • From the top of the mountain I see the mountain-foot, I see every hollow and level, fold by fold,

  • هم‌چنانک دید آن صدر اجل ** پیش کار خویش تا روز اجل
  • Just as that most noble prince (the perfect saint) saw his future destiny till the day of death.

  • آنچ خواهد بود بعد بیست سال ** داند اندر حال آن نیکو خصال 3395
  • That person of goodly qualities knows at the present time what will happen after twenty years.

  • حال خود تنها ندید آن متقی ** بلک حال مغربی و مشرقی
  • That God-fearing man did not see his own destiny only; nay, the destiny of (every) inhabitant of the West and East.

  • نور در چشم و دلش سازد سکن ** بهر چه سازد پی حب الوطن
  • The Light makes its abode in his eye and heart. Wherefore does it make (its abode there)? For love of home.