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2363-2372

  • این مثل اندر زمانه جانی است  ** جان نادانان به رنج ارزانی است 
  • This parable is of vital import (to the soul) in the world: the soul of the ignorant is worthy of pain (deserves to suffer.)

  • زانک جاهل ننگ دارد ز اوستاد  ** لاجرم رفت و دکانی نو گشاد 
  • Inasmuch as the ignoramus disdains his teacher, consequently he goes and opens a new shop.

  • آن دکان بالای استاد ای نگار  ** گنده و پر کزدمست و پر ز مار  2365
  • O (you who are vain and specious as a) picture, that shop, (set up) over the teacher, is stinking and full of scorpions and snakes.

  • زود ویران کن دکان و بازگرد  ** سوی سبزه و گلبنان و آب‌خورد 
  • Quickly lay waste that shop and turn back to the greenery and the rose-tress and the watering-place;

  • نه چو کنعان کو ز کبر و ناشناخت  ** از که عاصم سفینه‌ی فوز ساخت 
  • Not like Canaan, who from pride and ignorance made of the “protecting” mountain a ship (ark) of safety.

  • علم تیراندازیش آمد حجاب  ** وان مراد او را بده حاضر به جیب 
  • His (the fakir’s) knowledge of archery became a veil (barrier) to him, while (all the time) he had that object of desire present in his bosom.

  • ای بسا علم و ذکاوات و فطن  ** گشته ره‌رو را چو غول و راه‌زن 
  • Oh, how often have knowledge and keen wits and understandings become as (deadly as) the ghoul or brigand to the wayfarer!

  • بیشتر اصحاب جنت ابلهند  ** تا ز شر فیلسوفی می‌رهند  2370
  • Most of those destined for Paradise are simpletons (simple-minded), so that they escape from the mischief of philosophy.

  • خویش را عریان کن از فضل و فضول  ** تا کند رحمت به تو هر دم نزول 
  • Strip yourself of (useless) learning and vanity, in order that (the Divine) mercy may descend on you at every moment.

  • زیرکی ضد شکستست و نیاز  ** زیرکی بگذار و با گولی‌بساز 
  • Cleverness is the opposite of abasement and supplication: give up cleverness and sort with stupidity.