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  • هر چه در دوشاب جوشیده شود  ** در عقیده طعم دوشابش بود 
  • Whatever (fruit or vegetable) is boiled in grape-juice, the flavour of grape-juice will be (tasted) in its syrup.

  • از جزر وز سیب و به وز گردگان  ** لذت دوشاب یابی تو از آن 
  • (Whether it be syrup) of carrots or apples or quinces or walnuts, you will taste in it the delicious flavour of grape-juice.

  • علم اندر نور چون فرغرده شد  ** پس ز علمت نور یابد قوم لد 
  • When your knowledge is steeped in the light (of faith), then the contumacious folk derive light from your knowledge.

  • هر چه گویی باشد آن هم نورناک  ** که آسمان هرگز نبارد غیر پاک 
  • Whatsoever you say, too, will be luminous, for the sky never rains aught but pure (water).

  • آسمان شو ابر شو باران ببار  ** ناودان بارش کند نبود به کار  2490
  • Become (like) the sky, become (like) the cloud and shed rain: the spout rains (too), (but) it is not at work (productively).

  • آب اندر ناودان عاریتیست  ** آب اندر ابر و دریا فطرتیست 
  • The water in the spout is borrowed; the water in the cloud and in the sea is original.

  • فکر و اندیشه‌ست مثل ناودان  ** وحی و مکشوفست ابر و آسمان 
  • Your thought and cogitation resemble the spout; inspiration and revelation are (like) the cloud and the sky.

  • آب باران باغ صد رنگ آورد  ** ناودان همسایه در جنگ آورد 
  • The rain-water produces a many-coloured garden; the spout causes your neighbour to quarrel (with you).

  • خر دو سه حمله به روبه بحث کرد  ** چون مقلد بد فریب او بخورد 
  • The ass disputed twice or thrice with the fox, (but) since he was (only) an imitator he was beguiled by him.

  • طنطنه‌ی ادراک بینایی نداشت  ** دمدمه‌ی روبه برو سکته گماشت  2495
  • He had not the glorious power of perception possessed by a (true) seer: the fox's palaver brought upon him (a stroke of) apoplexy.