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  • پیش ازین زان گفته بودیم اندکی ** خود چه گوییم از هزارانش یکی
  • Before this (occasion), we had told a little of it: what, indeed, should we tell? (We can tell only) one (item) of its thousands.
  • خواستم گفتن در آن تحقیقها ** تا کنون وا ماند از تعویقها
  • I wished to speak of the (spiritual) truths (contained) in it, (but) till now they have remained (untold) on account of hindrances.
  • حمله‌ی دیگر ز بسیارش قلیل ** گفته آید شرح یک عضوی ز پیل
  • (Now) once again a little of its much shall be told—the description (as it were) of a single limb of the elephant.
  • گوش کن هاروت را ماروت را ** ای غلام و چاکران ما روت را 800
  • Listen to (the tale of) Hárút and Márút, O thou to whose face we are (devoted) slaves and servants.
  • مست بودند از تماشای اله ** وز عجایبهای استدراج شاه
  • They (Hárút and Márút) were intoxicated with the spectacle of God and with the marvels of the King's gradual temptation (of them).
  • این چنین مستیست ز استدراج حق ** تا چه مستیها کند معراج حق
  • Such intoxication arises (even) from God's gradual temptation, so that (you may judge) what intoxications are wrought by the ascension to God.
  • دانه‌ی دامش چنین مستی نمود ** خوان انعامش چه‌ها داند گشود
  • The bait in His snare produced intoxication like this: what things, (then), can the table of His bounty reveal!
  • مست بودند و رهیده از کمند ** های هوی عاشقانه می‌زدند
  • They were drunken and freed from the noose: they were uttering rapturous cries in the fashion of lovers;
  • یک کمین و امتحان در راه بود ** صرصرش چون کاه که را می‌ربود 805
  • (But) in their road there was one ambush and trial: its mighty wind would sweep the mountain away like straw.
  • امتحان می‌کردشان زیر و زبر ** کی بود سرمست را زینها خبر
  • The (Divine) trial was turning them upside down, (but) how should one that is drunken have consciousness of these things?
  • خندق و میدان بپیش او یکیست ** چاه و خندق پیش او خوش مسلکیست
  • To him pit and open field are one, to him dungeon and pit are a pleasant path to tread.
  • آن بز کوهی بر آن کوه بلند ** بر دود از بهر خوردی بی‌گزند
  • The mountain-goat runs up that high mountain for the sake of (getting) some harmless food.
  • تا علف چیند ببیند ناگهان ** بازیی دیگر ز حکم آسمان
  • Whilst he browses, suddenly he sees another trick played by the ordinance of Heaven.
  • بر کهی دیگر بر اندازد نظر ** ماده بز بیند بر آن کوه دگر 810
  • He casts his gaze upon another mountain: on that other mountain he espies a she-goat.
  • چشم او تاریک گردد در زمان ** بر جهد سرمست زین که تا بدان
  • Straightway his eye is darkened: he leaps madly from this mountain to that.
  • آنچنان نزدیک بنماید ورا ** که دویدن گرد بالوعه‌ی سرا
  • To him it seems as near (and easy) as to run round the sink (in the court) of a house.
  • آن هزاران گز دو گز بنمایدش ** تا ز مستی میل جستن آیدش
  • Those thousands of ells (are made to) appear to him (as) two ells, in order that from mad infatuation the impulse to leap may come to him.
  • چونک بجهد در فتد اندر میان ** در میان هر دو کوه بی امان
  • As soon as he leaps, he falls midway between the two pitiless mountains.
  • او ز صیادان به که بگریخته ** خود پناهش خون او را ریخته 815
  • He had fled to the mountain (to escape) from the hunters: his very refuge shed his blood.
  • شسته صیادان میان آن دو کوه ** انتظار این قضای با شکوه
  • The hunters are seated between the two mountains in expectation of this awesome decree (of God).
  • باشد اغلب صید این بز همچنین ** ورنه چالاکست و چست و خصم‌بین
  • The capture of this (mountain-)goat is, for the most part, (accomplished) in this manner; else (it would be difficult, for) he is agile and nimble and quick to see the enemy.
  • رستم ارچه با سر و سبلت بود ** دام پاگیرش یقین شهوت بود
  • Though Rustam have (a huge) head and moustache, lust will certainly be the snare to catch his feet.
  • همچو من از مستی شهوت ببر ** مستی شهوت ببین اندر شتر
  • Be cut off, like me, from the intoxication of lust: look at the intoxication of lust in the camel!
  • باز این مستی شهوت در جهان ** پیش مستی ملک دان مستهان 820
  • Know, again, that this intoxication of lust in the (terrestrial) world is (to be) deemed of small account beside the intoxication of the angels.
  • مستی آن مستی این بشکند ** او به شهوت التفاتی کی کند
  • The intoxication of that one (the angel) breaks (reduces to insignificance) the intoxication of this one (the human being): how should he (the angel) show any propensity to lust?