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  • که اگر بیرون فتم زین شهر و کام ** ای عجب بینم بدیده این مقام
  • Saying, “Oh, I wonder, if I fall outside of this city and (abode of) pleasure, shall I see with my eye this dwelling-place;

  • یا دری بودی در آن شهر وخم ** که نظاره کردمی اندر رحم
  • Or would there be in that noisome city a door, so that I might gaze into the womb,

  • یا چو چشمه‌ی سوزنی راهم بدی ** که ز بیرونم رحم دیده شدی
  • Or would there be for me a path, (narrow) as the eye of a needle, so that the womb might become visible to me from outside?”

  • آن جنین هم غافلست از عالمی ** همچو جالینوس او نامحرمی
  • That embryo, too, is unaware of a world (outside): it is one unfamiliar (therewith), like Galen.

  • اونداند کن رطوباتی که هست ** آن مدد از عالم بیرونیست 3970
  • It does not know that the humours which exist (in the womb) are supplied (to it) from the external world,

  • آنچنانک چار عنصر در جهان ** صد مدد آرد ز شهر لامکان
  • Even as the four elements in this world obtain a hundred supplies (means of support) from the City beyond space.

  • آب و دانه در قفص گر یافتست ** آن ز باغ و عرصه‌ای درتافتست
  • If it has found water and seeds in its cage, those have appeared (there) from a Garden and Expanse.

  • جانهای انبیا بینند باغ ** زین قفص در وقت نقلان و فراغ
  • The spirits of the prophets behold the Garden from this cage at the time of their being transported and freed (from the body);

  • پس ز جالینوس و عالم فارغند ** همچو ماه اندر فلکها بازغند
  • Hence they are free of Galen and the world: they are shining like the moon in the skies.

  • ور ز جالینوس این گفت افتراست ** پس جوابم بهر جالینوس نیست 3975
  • And if this saying (as related) from Galen is a fiction, then my answer is not for Galen,

  • این جواب آنکس آمد کین بگفت ** که نبودستش دل پر نور جفت
  • (But) this is the answer to the person who said it, for the luminous heart has not been his mate.

  • مرغ جانش موش شد سوراخ‌جو ** چون شنید از گربگان او عرجوا
  • The bird, his spirit, became a mouse seeking a hole, when it heard from the cats (the cry), “Halt ye!”

  • زان سبب جانش وطن دید و قرار ** اندرین سوراخ دنیا موش‌وار
  • On that account his spirit, mouse-like, deemed its home and abode to be in this world-hole.

  • هم درین سوراخ بنایی گرفت ** درخور سوراخ دانایی گرفت
  • In this hole, too, it began to build and acquired a knowledge suitable to the hole;

  • پیشه‌هایی که مرورا در مزید ** کاندرین سوراخ کار آید گزید 3980
  • It chose the trades advantageous to it, which would be of use in this hole.

  • زانک دل بر کند از بیرون شدن ** بسته شد راه رهیدن از بدن
  • Inasmuch as it turned its heart away from (relinquished the desire for) going forth, the way of deliverance from the body was barred.

  • عنکبوت ار طبع عنقا داشتی ** از لعابی خیمه کی افراشتی
  • If the spider had the nature of the ‘Anqá, how should it have reared a tent (made) of some gossamer?

  • گربه کرده چنگ خود اندر قفص ** نام چنگش درد و سرسام و مغص
  • The cat has put its claws into the cage: the name of its claws is pain and delirium and gripes.

  • گربه مرگست و مرض چنگال او ** می‌زند بر مرغ و پر و بال او
  • The cat is Death, and its claws are disease: it is striking at the bird and its plumage.

  • گوشه گوشه می‌جهد سوی دوا ** مرگ چون قاضیست و رنجوری گوا 3985
  • He (the sick man) darts (like the bird) from corner to corner towards the remedy. Death is like the cadi, and the disease is the witness.

  • چون پیاده‌ی قاضی آمد این گواه ** که همی‌خواند ترا تا حکم گاه
  • This witness comes (to you), like the cadi's footman (officer), who summons you to the place of judgment.

  • مهلتی می‌خواهی از وی در گریز ** گر پذیرد شد و گرنه گفت خیز
  • You, in flight (from your doom), beg him (to grant you) a respite: if he consent, it is granted; otherwise, he says, “Arise (and go with me).”

  • جستن مهلت دوا و چاره‌ها ** که زنی بر خرقه‌ی تن پاره‌ها
  • The seeking of a respite consists in remedies and cures, that you may patch (thereby) the tattered cloak, the body.

  • عاقبت آید صباحی خشم‌وار ** چند باشد مهلت آخر شرم دار
  • At last, one morning, he comes angrily, saying, “How long will the respite be? Now, prithee, be ashamed!”

  • عذر خود از شه بخواه ای پرحسد ** پیش از آنک آنچنان روزی رسد 3990
  • O envious man, ask your pardon of the King ere such a day as that arrives.