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  • امتحانست این گهر مر خلق را ** ماش گردانیم گرد چشمها
  • This jewel is a test for the people: we turn it about round (their) eyes.

  • هر که گوید کو گوا گفتش گواست ** کو نمی‌بیند گهر حبس عماست
  • Whosoever says, ‘Where is the evidence?’ his words are an evidence that he does not see the jewel and is in thrall to blindness.”

  • آفتابی در سخن آمد که خیز ** که بر آمد روز بر جه کم ستیز
  • (Suppose that) a sun has come to speech (and says), “Arise! for the day has risen; jump up, do not dispute!”

  • تو بگویی آفتابا کو گواه ** گویدت ای کور از حق دیده خواه 2720
  • (And suppose that) you say, “O sun, where is the evidence?”— it will say to you, “O blind one, beg of God (that He give you) an eye.”

  • روز روشن هر که او جوید چراغ ** عین جستن کوریش دارد بلاغ
  • If any one seek a lamp in bright daylight, the very fact of seeking (it) announces his blindness.

  • ور نمی‌بینی گمانی برده‌ای ** که صباحست و تو اندر پرده‌ای
  • And if you do not see (the daylight) but have formed an opinion that ’tis the dawn and that you are in a veil,

  • کوری خود را مکن زین گفت فاش ** خامش و در انتظار فضل باش
  • Do not proclaim your blindness by (saying) these words; keep silence and be in expectation of the (Divine) grace.

  • در میان روز گفتن روز کو ** خویش رسوا کردنست ای روزجو
  • To say in the midst of day “Where is the day?” is to expose yourself, O day-seeker.

  • صبر و خاموشی جذوب رحمتست ** وین نشان جستن نشان علتست 2725
  • Patience and silence attract the (Divine) mercy, whereas to seek this sign (evidence) is a sign of infirmity.

  • انصتوا بپذیر تا بر جان تو ** آید از جانان جزای انصتوا
  • Accept (the Divine command), “Be ye silent,” in order that the recompense of “Be ye silent” may come to your soul from the Beloved.

  • گر نخواهی نکس پیش این طبیب ** بر زمین زن زر و سر را ای لبیب
  • If you do not desire (to suffer a) relapse in the presence of this Physician, dash to the ground your gold (zar) and your head (sar), O man of understanding.

  • گفت افزون را تو بفروش و بخر ** بذل جان و بذل جاه و بذل زر
  • Sell your superfluous speech and buy sacrifice of life and sacrifice of position and sacrifice of gold,

  • تا ثنای تو بگوید فضل هو ** که حسد آرد فلک بر جاه تو
  • That the grace of Him (Hú) may utter praise of you, so that Heaven will be envious of your high estate.

  • چون طبیبان را نگه دارید دل ** خود ببینید و شوید ازخود خجل 2730
  • When ye have regard for the hearts (feelings and wishes) of the physicians, ye will see yourselves and will become ashamed of yourselves.

  • دفع این کوری بدست خلق نیست ** لیک اکرام طبیبان از هدیست
  • ’Tis not in the power of created beings to remove this blindness, but the honouring of the physicians (by you) is from Divine guidance.

  • این طبیبان را به جان بنده شوید ** تا به مشک و عنبر آکنده شوید
  • Become devoted to these physicians with (all your) soul, that ye may be filled with musk and ambergris.

  • متهم داشتن قوم انبیا را
  • How the people suspected the prophets.

  • قوم گفتند این همه زرقست و مکر ** کی خدا نایب کند از زید و بکر
  • The people said, “All this is fraud and deceit: how should God make a vicar of Zayd and Bakr?

  • هر رسول شاه باید جنس او ** آب و گل کو خالق افلاک کو
  • Every king's messenger must be of his (the king's) kind: where are water and clay in comparison with the Creator of the heavens?

  • مغز خر خوردیم تا ما چون شما ** پشه را داریم همراز هما 2735
  • Have we eaten ass's brains that we, like you, should deem a gnat to be the confidant of the humá?

  • کو هما کو پشه کو گل کو خدا ** ز آفتاب چرخ چه بود ذره را
  • Where is a gnat in comparison with the humá? Where is earth in comparison with God? What relation to the mote has the sun in the sky?

  • این چه نسبت این چه پیوندی بود ** تاکه در عقل و دماغی در رود
  • What resemblance is this, and what connexion is this, that it should enter into any mind and brain?

  • حکایت خرگوشان کی خرگوشی راپیش پیل فرستادند کی بگو کی من رسول ماه آسمانم پیش تو کی ازین چشمه آب حذر کن چنانک در کتاب کلیله تمام گفته است
  • Story of the hares who sent a hare as ambassador to the elephant, bidding him say, ‘I come to thee as the ambassador of the Moon in heaven to bid thee beware of (drinking from) this water-spring,’ as is told in full in the Book of Kalíla (and Dimna).

  • این بدان ماند که خرگوشی بگفت ** من رسول ماهم و با ماه جفت
  • This (claim made by you) resembles the saying of a certain hare—‘I am the ambassador of the Moon and companion to the Moon.’

  • کز رمه‌ی پیلان بر آن چشمه‌ی زلال ** جمله نخجیران بدند اندر وبال
  • For all the beasts of chase were in woe on account of a herd of elephants (dwelling) beside that limpid spring;

  • جمله محروم و ز خوف از چشمه دور ** حیله‌ای کردند چون کم بود زور 2740
  • All were deprived (of water) and (were kept) far from the spring by dread: since (their) strength was inferior, they made a plot.

  • از سر که بانگ زد خرگوش زال ** سوی پیلان در شب غره‌ی هلال
  • From the mountain-top the old hare cried towards the elephants on the first night of the new-moon—