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2210-2219

  • هر دمت طوفان و کشتی ای مقل  ** با غم و شادیت کرد او متصل  2210
  • At every moment, O man of little means, He has conjoined with your grief and gladness an ark (to save you) and a flood (to destroy you).

  • گر نبینی کشتی و دریا به پیش  ** لرزها بین در همه اجزای خویش 
  • If you do not perceive the ark and the sea (flood) before you, (then) consider (whence come) the tremors in all your limbs.

  • چون نبیند اصل ترسش را عیون  ** ترس دارد از خیال گونه‌گون 
  • Since his (the trembling man's) eyes do not perceive the source of his fear, he is affrighted by diverse kinds of phantasy.

  • مشت بر اعمی زند یک جلف مست  ** کور پندارد لگدزن اشترست 
  • (For example), a drunken boor strikes a blind man with his fist: the blind man thinks it is a kicking camel,

  • زانک آن دم بانگ اشتر می‌شنید  ** کور را گوشست آیینه نه دید 
  • Because at that moment he heard a camel's cry: the ear, not the eye, is the mirror for the blind.

  • باز گوید کور نه این سنگ بود  ** یا مگر از قبه‌ی پر طنگ بود  2215
  • (But) then again the blind man says, “No, it was a stone (which some one threw at me), or perhaps it was (a brick) from an echoing dome.”

  • این نبود و او نبود و آن نبود  ** آنک او ترس آفرید اینها نمود 
  • It was neither this nor that nor that: He who created fear produced these (phantasies).

  • ترس و لرزه باشد از غیری یقین  ** هیچ کس از خود نترسد ای حزین 
  • Certainly fear and trembling are (produced) by another: nobody is frightened by himself, O sorrowful man.

  • آن حکیمک وهم خواند ترس را  ** فهم کژ کردست او این درس را 
  • The miserable philosopher calls fear “imagination” (wahm): he has wrongly understood this lesson.

  • هیچ وهمی بی‌حقیقت کی بود  ** هیچ قلبی بی‌صحیحی کی رود 
  • How should there be any imagination without reality? How should any false coin pass (into circulation) without a genuine one?