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  • گر نخواهی دوست را فردا نفیر ** دوستی با عاقل و با عقل گیر
  • If thou dost not wish thy friend to be averse (to thee) on the morrow, take (choose) friendship with the intelligent and with the intellect.

  • از سموم نفس چون با علتی ** هر چه گیری تو مرض را آلتی
  • Inasmuch as thou art sick from the simoom of the carnal soul, whatever thou mayst take thou art the instrument for (infecting it with) disease.

  • گر بگیری گوهری سنگی شود ** ور بگیری مهر دل جنگی شود
  • If thou take a jewel, it becomes a (common) stone; and if thou take kindness of heart, it becomes a hatred;

  • ور بگیری نکته‌ی بکری لطیف ** بعد درکت گشت بی‌ذوق و کثیف 2695
  • And if thou take a fine original saying, after thy apprehension (of it) it has become tasteless and gross—

  • که من این را بس شنیدم کهنه شد ** چیز دیگر گو بجز آن ای عضد
  • ‘I have heard this many a time; it has become old: tell something else besides this, O trusty friend.’

  • چیز دیگر تازه و نو گفته گیر ** باز فردا زان شوی سیر و نفیر
  • Suppose that something else fresh and new has been said, again to-morrow thou art surfeited with it and averse.

  • دفع علت کن چو علت خو شود ** هرحدیثی کهنه پیشت نو شود
  • Remove the disease: when the disease is eradicated, every old tale will become new to thee,

  • تا که از کهنه برآرد برگ نو ** بشکفاند کهنه صد خوشه ز گو
  • So that it will bring forth new leaves from the old (bough): the old (tale) will cause a hundred clusters to blossom from the ditch.

  • ما طبیبانیم شاگردان حق ** بحر قلزم دید ما را فانفلق 2700
  • We are the (spiritual) physicians, the disciples of God: the Red Sea beheld us and was cloven.

  • آن طبیبان طبیعت دیگرند ** که به دل از راه نبضی بنگرند
  • Those natural physicians are different, for they look into the heart by means of a pulse.

  • ما به دل بی واسطه خوش بنگریم ** کز فراست ما به عالی منظریم
  • We look well into the heart without intermediary, for through clairvoyance we are in a high belvedere.

  • آن طبیبان غذااند و ثمار ** جان حیوانی بدیشان استوار
  • Those (others) are physicians of food and fruit: by them the animal soul is (made) strong.

  • ما طبیبان فعالیم و مقال ** ملهم ما پرتو نور جلال
  • We are physicians of deeds and words: the ray of the light of (Divine) Majesty is our inspirer,

  • کین چنین فعلی ترا نافع بود ** و آنچنان فعلی ز ره قاطع بود 2705
  • (So that we know) that a deed like this will be beneficial to thee, while a deed like that will cut (thee) off from the Way;

  • اینچنین قولی ترا پیش آورد ** و آنچنان قولی ترا نیش آورد
  • And that words like these will lead thee on (to grace), while words like those will bring anguish to thee.

  • آن طبیبان را بود بولی دلیل ** وین دلیل ما بود وحی جلیل
  • To those (other) physicians a (sample of) urine is evidence, whereas this evidence of ours is the inspiration of the Almighty.

  • دست‌مزدی می نخواهیم از کسی ** دست‌مزد ما رسد از حق بسی
  • We do not desire a fee from any one: our fee comes many a time from God.

  • هین صلا بیماری ناسور را ** داروی ما یک بیک رنجور را
  • Hark, come hither for the incurable disease! We, one by one, are a medicine for the (spiritually) sick.”

  • معجزه خواستن قوم از پیغامبران
  • How the people (of Sabá) demanded miracles from the prophets.

  • قوم گفتند ای گروه مدعی ** کو گواه علم طب و نافعی 2710
  • The people said, “O ye company of impostors, where is the evidence of (your) knowledge of medicine and (your) usefulness?

  • چون شما بسته همین خواب و خورید ** همچو ما باشید در ده می‌چرید
  • Since ye are in bondage, like us, to this same sleep and food (and) are pasturing in the country—

  • چون شما در دام این آب و گلید ** کی شما صیاد سیمرغ دلید
  • Since ye are entrapped by this water and earth, how are ye hunters of the Símurgh (which is) the heart?

  • حب جاه و سروری دارد بر آن ** که شمارد خویش از پیغامبران
  • Love of power and dominion induces (a man) to reckon himself amongst the prophets.

  • ما نخواهیم این چنین لاف و دروغ ** کردن اندر گوش و افتادن بدوغ
  • We will not put in our ears such vain boasts and lies and (thereby) fall into deception.”

  • انبیا گفتند کین زان علتست ** مایه‌ی کوری حجاب ریتست 2715
  • The prophets said, “This (disbelief) arises from that malady: the original blindness (of your hearts) is the screen (which hinders you) from seeing (the truth).

  • دعوی ما را شنیدیت و شما ** می‌نبینید این گهر در دست ما
  • Ye have heard our call, and (yet) ye do not see this jewel in our hands.