همچو جان باشد شه و صاحب چو عقل ** عقل فاسد روح را آرد بنقل
The king is as the spirit, and the vizier as the intellect: the corrupt intellect brings the spirit into movement (towards corruption).
آن فرشتهی عقل چون هاروت شد ** سحرآموز دو صد طاغوت شد
When the angelical intellect became a Hárút, it became the teacher in magic to two hundred devils.
عقل جزوی را وزیر خود مگیر ** عقل کل را ساز ای سلطان وزیر
Do not take the particular (individual) intellect as thy vizier: make the Universal Intellect thy vizier, O king.
مر هوا را تو وزیر خود مساز ** که برآید جان پاکت از نماز
Do not make sensuality thy vizier, else thy pure spirit will cease from prayer,
کین هوا پر حرص و حالیبین بود ** عقل را اندیشه یوم دین بود1260
For this sensuality is full of greed and sees (only) the immediate present, (whereas) the Intellect takes thought for the Day of Judgement.
عقل را دو دیده در پایان کار ** بهر آن گل میکشد او رنج خار
The two eyes of the Intellect are (fixed) on the end of things: it endures the pain of the thorn for the sake of that Rose
که نفرساید نریزد در خزان ** باد هر خرطوم اخشم دور از آن
Which does not fade and drop in autumn—far from it be the wind (breath) of every nose that cannot smell!
نشستن دیو بر مقام سلیمان علیهالسلام و تشبه کردن او به کارهای سلیمان علیهالسلام و فرق ظاهر میان هر دو سلیمان و دیو خویشتن را سلیمان بن داود نام کردن
How the Demon sat on the place (throne) of Solomon, on whom be peace, and imitated his actions; and concerning the manifest difference between the two Solomons, and how the Demon called himself Solomon son of David.
ورچه عقلت هست با عقل دگر ** یار باش و مشورت کن ای پدر
Even if thou hast intellect, associate and consult with another intellect, O father.
با دو عقل از بس بلاها وا رهی ** پای خود بر اوج گردونها نهی
With two intellects thou wilt be delivered from many afflictions: thou wilt plant thy foot on the summit of the heavens.
دیو گر خود را سلیمان نام کرد ** ملک برد و مملکت را رام کرد1265
If the Demon called himself Solomon and won the kingdom and made the empire subject (to him),
صورت کار سلیمان دیده بود ** صورت اندر سر دیوی مینمود
(It was because) he had seen (and imitated) the form of Solomon's action; (but) within the form the spirit of demonry was appearing.
خلق گفتند این سلیمان بیصفاست ** از سلیمان تا سلیمان فرقهاست
The people said, “This Solomon is without excellence: there are (great) differences between (that) Solomon and (this) Solomon.”
او چو بیداریست این همچون وسن ** همچنانک آن حسن با این حسن
He (the former) is like wakefulness, this one is like sleep; (there is as much difference) as between that Hasan and this Hasan.
دیو میگفتی که حق بر شکل من ** صورتی کردست خوش بر اهرمن
The Demon would reply, “God has bestowed on Ahriman a pleasing form (aspect) in the likeness of me.
دیو را حق صورت من داده است ** تا نیندازد شما را او بشست1270
God hath given my aspect to the Devil: let him not cast you into his net!
گر پدید آید به دعوی زینهار ** صورت او را مدارید اعتبار
If he appear with the pretence (that he is really I), beware! Do not have regard to his (outward) form.”
دیوشان از مکر این میگفت لیک ** مینمود این عکس در دلهای نیک
The Demon was saying this to them from guile, but in good (enlightened) hearts the reverse of this was apparent.
نیست بازی با ممیز خاصه او ** که بود تمییز و عقلش غیبگو
There is no playing tricks with the discerning man, especially (with) him whose discernment and intelligence speak of the Unseen.
هیچ سحر و هیچ تلبیس و دغل ** مینبندد پرده بر اهل دول
No magic and no imposture and fraud will bind a veil upon the owners of (spiritual) empire.
پس همی گفتند با خود در جواب ** بازگونه میروی ای کژ خطاب1275
Hence they were saying to themselves in reply (to the Demon), “Thou art going upside down, O thou who art addressed falsely (by the name of Solomon).
بازگونه رفت خواهی همچنین ** سوی دوزخ اسفل اندر سافلین
Upside down likewise thou wilt go Hellward, the lowest among the low.
او اگر معزول گشتست و فقیر ** هست در پیشانیش بدر منیر
If he (Solomon) has been deposed and reduced to poverty, (yet) the radiant full-moon is on his forehead.
تو اگر انگشتری را بردهای ** دوزخی چون زمهریر افسردهای
If thou hast carried off the (royal) signet-ring, (yet) thou art (as) a Hell frozen like (the region of) piercing cold.
ما ببوش و عارض و طاق و طرنب ** سر کجا که خود همی ننهیم سنب
On account of (the Demon's) ostentation and vain show and pomp and grandeur how (should we lay) the head (in obeisance before him)? for we will not lay (before him) even a hoof.
ور به غفلت ما نهیم او را جبین ** پنجهی مانع برآید از زمین1280
And if heedlessly we should lay the forehead (on the ground in homage) to him, a preventing hand will rise up from the earth,