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  • زهره کی بود یا عطارد یا شهاب  ** کو برون آید به پیش آفتاب  2135
  • Who is Venus or Mercury or a meteor that they should come forth in the presence of the sun?

  • گر ز دلق و پوستین بگذشتمی  ** کی چنین تخم ملامت کشتمی 
  • If I had omitted (to look at) the cloak and sheepskin, how should I have sown such seeds of blame?

  • قفل کردن بر در حجره چه بود  ** در میان صد خیالیی حسود 
  • What was the (use of) putting a lock on the door of the chamber amidst a hundred envious persons addicted to false imagination?

  • دست در کرده درون آب جو  ** هر یکی زیشان کلوخ خشک‌جو 
  • Every one of them, having put his hand into the river-water, seeks (to find there) a dry sod.

  • پس کلوخ خشک در جو کی بود  ** ماهیی با آب عاصی کی شود 
  • How, then, should there be a dry sod in the river? How should a fish become disobedient to the sea?

  • بر من مسکین جفا دارند ظن  ** که وفا را شرم می‌آید ز من  2140
  • They impute iniquity to poor me, before whom loyalty (itself) is ashamed.”

  • گر نبودی زحمت نامحرمی  ** چند حرفی از وفا واگفتمی 
  • Were it not for the trouble caused by a person unfamiliar (with my meaning), I would have spoken a few words concerning loyalty;

  • چون جهانی شبهت و اشکال‌جوست  ** حرف می‌رانیم ما بیرون پوست 
  • (But) since a world (multitude of people) is seeking (to raise) doubt and difficulty, we will let the discourse run beyond the skin.

  • گر تو خود را بشکنی مغزی شوی  ** داستان مغز نغزی بشنوی 
  • If you break your (material) self, you will become a kernel and will hear the tale of a goodly kernel.

  • جوز را در پوستها آوازهاست  ** مغز و روغن را خود آوازی کجاست 
  • The voices of walnuts are in their skins (shells): where, indeed, is any voice in the kernel and the oil?

  • دارد آوازی نه اندر خورد گوش  ** هست آوازش نهان در گوش نوش  2145
  • It (the kernel) has a voice, (but one that is) not suited to the (bodily) ear: its voice is hidden in the ear of ecstasy.

  • گرنه خوش‌آوازی مغزی بود  ** ژغژغ آواز قشری کی شنود 
  • Were it not for the sweetness of a kernel's voice, who would listen to the rattling voice of a walnut-shell?

  • ژغژغ آن زان تحمل می‌کنی  ** تا که خاموشانه بر مغزی زنی 
  • You endure the rattling of it (only) in order that you may silently come into touch with a kernel.

  • چند گاهی بی‌لب و بی‌گوش شو  ** وانگهان چون لب حریف نوش شو 
  • Be without lip and without ear for a while, and then, like the lip, be the companion of honey.

  • چند گفتی نظم و نثر و راز فاش  ** خواجه یک روز امتحان کن گنگ باش 
  • How long have you been uttering poetry and prose and (proclaiming) mysteries! O master, try the experiment and, for one day, be dumb!

  • حکایت در تقریر این سخن کی چندین گاه گفت ذکر را آزمودیم مدتی صبر و خاموشی را بیازماییم 
  • Story in confirmation of the saying, “We have tried speech and talk all this time: (now) for a while let us. try self-restraint and silence.”

  • چند پختی تلخ و تیز و شورگز  ** این یکی بار امتحان شیرین بپز  2150
  • How long have you been cooking (things) sour and acid and (like the fruit of) the white tamarisk? For this one time make an experiment and cook sweets.

  • آن یکی را در قیامت ز انتباه  ** در کف آید نامه‌ی عصیان سیاه 
  • On waking at the Resurrection, there is put into the hands of a (wicked) man the scroll of his sins: (it will be) black,

  • سرسیه چون نامه‌های تعزیه  ** پر معاصی متن نامه و حاشیه 
  • Headed with black, as letters of mourning; the body and margin of the scroll completely filled with (his) sins—

  • جمله فسق و معصیت بد یک سری  ** هم‌چو دارالحرب پر از کافری 
  • The whole (of it) wickedness and sin from end to end, full of infidelity, like the land of war.

  • آنچنان نامه‌ی پلید پر وبال  ** در یمین ناید درآید در شمال 
  • Such a foul and noxious scroll does not come into the right hand; it comes into the left hand.

  • خود همین‌جا نامه‌ی خود را ببین  ** دست چپ را شاید آن یا در یمین  2155
  • Here also (in this world) regard your scroll (the record of your actions), (and consider) whether it fits the left hand or the right.

  • موزه‌ی چپ کفش چپ هم در دکان  ** آن چپ دانیش پیش از امتحان 
  • In the (bootmaker's) shop, can you know before trying (them) on that the left boot or shoe belongs to the left (foot)?

  • چون نباشی راست می‌دان که چپی  ** هست پیدا نعره‌ی شیر و کپی 
  • When you are not “right,” know that you are “left”; the cries of a lion and an ape are distinct (from one another).

  • آنک گل را شاهد و خوش‌بو کند  ** هر چپی را راست فضل او کند 
  • He (God) who makes the rose lovely and sweet-scented—His bounty makes every “left” to be “right.”

  • هر شمالی را یمینی او دهد  ** بحر را ماء معینی او دهد 
  • He bestows “rightness” on every one belonging to the “left” He bestows a(fresh) running water on the (salt) sea.