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  • گیرم ای کر خود تو آن را نشنوی ** چون مثالش دیده‌ای چون نگروی
  • O deaf man, I grant that truly thou hearest them not; (but) since thou hast seen their (external) emblem, how wilt not thou believe?

  • جواب طعنه‌زننده در مثنوی از قصور فهم خود
  • Reply to him who rails at the Mathnawí on account of his being deficient in understanding.

  • ای سگ طاعن تو عو عو می‌کنی ** طعن قرآن را برون‌شو می‌کنی
  • O railing cur, you are bow-wowing and practising evasion for the purpose of railing at the Qur’án.

  • این نه آن شیرست کز وی جان بری ** یا ز پنجه‌ی قهر او ایمان بری
  • This is not such a lion that you will save your life from it or carry off your faith (secure) from the claws of its vengeance.

  • تا قیامت می‌زند قرآن ندی ** ای گروهی جهل را گشته فدی
  • The Qur’án is proclaiming till the Resurrection—“O people devoted to ignorance,

  • که مرا افسانه می‌پنداشتید ** تخم طعن و کافری می‌کاشتید 4285
  • Who were deeming me to be an idle tale and were sowing the seed of raillery and infidelity,

  • خود بدیدیت آنک طعنه می‌زدیت ** که شما فانی و افسانه بدیت
  • (Now) ye yourselves have seen (the truth of) what ye were scoffing at, (namely), that ye were perishable and idle tale.

  • من کلام حقم و قایم به ذات ** قوت جان جان و یاقوت زکات
  • I am the Word of God and subsistent through the (Divine) Essence; I am the Food of the soul of the soul. And (I am) the Jacinth of purity.

  • نور خورشیدم فتاده بر شما ** لیک از خورشید ناگشته جدا
  • I am the Sunlight that hath fallen upon you, but I have not become separate from the Sun.

  • نک منم ینبوع آن آب حیات ** تا رهانم عاشقان را از ممات
  • Lo, I am the Fountain of the Water of Life, that I may deliver the lovers (of God) from death.

  • گر چنان گند آزتان ننگیختی ** جرعه‌ای بر گورتان حق ریختی 4290
  • If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.”

  • نه بگیرم گفت و پند آن حکیم ** دل نگردانم بهر طعنی سقیم
  • Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.

  • مثل زدن در رمیدن کره‌ی اسپ از آب خوردن به سبب شخولیدن سایسان
  • Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.

  • آنک فرمودست او اندر خطاب ** کره و مادر همی‌خوردند آب
  • As he has said in his discourse, the foal and its mother were drinking the water.

  • می‌شخولیدند هر دم آن نفر ** بهر اسپان که هلا هین آب خور
  • Those persons (the grooms) were bawling incessantly at the horses, “Come on! Hey, drink!”

  • آن شخولیدن به کره می‌رسید ** سر همی بر داشت و از خور می‌رمید
  • (The noise of) that bawling reached the foal: it was lifting its head and refusing to drink.

  • مادرش پرسید کای کره چرا ** می‌رمی هر ساعتی زین استقا 4295
  • Its mother asked, “O foal, why art thou always refusing to drink this water?”

  • گفت کره می‌شخولند این گروه ** ز اتفاق بانگشان دارم شکوه
  • The foal said, “These people are bawling: I am afraid of the occurrence of their shouts.

  • پس دلم می‌لرزد از جا می‌رود ** ز اتفاق نعره خوفم می‌رسد
  • Therefore my heart is trembling and jumping: dread of the occurrence of the outcry is coming on me.”

  • گفت مادر تا جهان بودست ازین ** کارافزایان بدند اندر زمین
  • The mother said, “Ever since the world existed, there have been busybodies of this sort on the earth.”

  • هین تو کار خویش کن ای ارجمند ** زود کایشان ریش خود بر می‌کنند
  • Hark, do your own business, O worthy man: soon will they tear their beards (in sorrow).

  • وقت تنگ و می‌رود آب فراخ ** پیش از آن کز هجر گردی شاخ شاخ 4300
  • The time is restricted, and the abundant water is flowing away: (drink) ere, through being parted (from it), you fall to pieces.

  • شهره کاریزیست پر آب حیات ** آب کش تا بر دمد از تو نبات
  • There is a famous conduit, full of the Water of Life: draw the Water, in order that verdure may grow up from you.

  • آب خضر از جوی نطق اولیا ** می‌خوریم ای تشنه‌ی غافل بیا
  • We are drinking the water of Khizr from the river of the speech of the saints: come, O heedless thirsty man!

  • گر نبینی آب کورانه بفن ** سوی جو آور سبو در جوی زن
  • If you do not see the water, artfully after the fashion of the blind bring the jug to the river, and dip it in the river.

  • چون شنیدی کاندرین جو آب هست ** کور را تقلید باید کار بست
  • Forasmuch as you have heard that there is water in this river-bed, (go and try): the blind man must practise conformity.

  • جو فرو بر مشک آب‌اندیش را ** تا گران بینی تو مشک خویش را 4305
  • Carry down to the river the water-skin that has thoughts of the water, so that you may find your water-skin heavy.