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509-533

  • که برو از پیه این اشتر بخر  ** بیند اشتر را سقط او راه بر 
  • Saying, ‘Go, buy some of the fat of this camel’: he (the slave) sees the camel fallen dead on the road.

  • سر بریده از مرض آن اشتری  ** کو بتگ با اسب می‌کردی مری  510
  • (He sees) mortally stricken by disease the camel that used to vie with a horse in speed;

  • کز حسد وز چشم بد بی‌هیچ شک  ** سیر و گردش را بگرداند فلک 
  • For, without any doubt, from envy and (the effect of) the evil eye the celestial sphere would alter its course and revolution.”

  • آب پنهانست و دولاب آشکار  ** لیک در گردش بود آب اصل کار 
  • The water is hidden and the water-wheel is visible, yet as regards (the wheel's) revolution the water is the source of action.

  • چشم نیکو شد دوای چشم بد  ** چشم بد را لا کند زیر لگد 
  • The remedy of the evil eye is the good eye: it makes the evil eye naught beneath its kick.

  • سبق رحمت‌راست و او از رحمتست  ** چشم بد محصول قهر و لعنتست 
  • (Divine) mercy has the precedence (over Divine wrath): it (the good eye) is (derived) from (Divine) mercy, (while) the evil eye is the product of (Divine) wrath and execration.

  • رحمتش بر نقمتش غالب شود  ** چیره زین شد هر نبی بر ضد خود  515
  • His (God's) mercy overcomes His vengeance: hence every prophet prevailed over his adversary;

  • کو نتیجه‌ی رحمتست و ضد او  ** از نتیجه‌ی قهر بود آن زشت‌رو 
  • For he (the prophet) is the result of (Divine) mercy and is the opposite of him (the adversary): that ill-favoured one was the result of (Divine) wrath.

  • حرص بط یکتاست این پنجاه تاست  ** حرص شهوت مار و منصب اژدهاست 
  • The greed of the duck is single, (but) this (greed of the peacock) is fiftyfold: the greed of lust is (only) a snake, while this (greed for) eminence is a dragon.

  • حرص بط از شهوت حلقست و فرج  ** در ریاست بیست چندانست درج 
  • The duck's greed arises from the appetite of the gullet and pudendum, (but) twenty times as much (greed) is included in (the ambition to) rule.

  • از الوهیت زند در جاه لاف  ** طامع شرکت کجا باشد معاف 
  • He (who is) in power (really) pretends to Divinity: how should one ambitious of co-partnership (with God) be saved?

  • زلت آدم ز اشکم بود و باه  ** وآن ابلیس از تکبر بود و جاه  520
  • The sin of Adam arose from the belly and sexual intercourse, and that of Iblís from pride and power.

  • لاجرم او زود استغفار کرد  ** وآن لعین از توبه استکبار کرد 
  • Consequently, he (Adam) at once besought pardon, while the accursed (Iblís) disdained to repent.

  • حرص حلق و فرج هم خود بدرگیست  ** لیک منصب نیست آن اشکستگیست 
  • The greed of the gullet and pudendum is in truth (a mark of) depravity; but it is not (headstrong like) ambition: it is abasement.

  • بیخ و شاخ این ریاست را اگر  ** باز گویم دفتری باید دگر 
  • If I should relate the root and branch (the whole story) of dominion, another Book would be needed.

  • اسپ سرکش را عرب شیطانش خواند  ** نی ستوری را که در مرعی بماند 
  • The Arabs called a restive (high-spirited) horse a “devil” (shaytán); (they did) not (give that name to) the beast of burden that stayed (quietly) in the pasture.

  • شیطنت گردن کشی بد در لغت  ** مستحق لعنت آمد این صفت  525
  • “Devilry” (shaytanat) in lexicology is (synonymous with) “rebelliousness”: this quality is deserving of execration.

  • این جهان محدود و آن خود بی حدست ** نقش و صورت پیش آن معنی سدست
  • There is room for a hundred eaters (guests) round a table, (but) there is not room in the (whole) world for two seekers of dominion.

  • آن نخواهد کین بود بر پشت خاک  ** تا ملک بکشد پدر را ز اشتراک 
  • The one is not willing that the other should be on the surface of the earth; so that a prince kills his father for partaking with him (in sovereignty).

  • آن شنیدستی که الملک عقیم  ** قطع خویشی کرد ملکت‌جو ز بیم 
  • Thou hast heard (the saying) that kingship is childless: the seeker of sovereignty has cut (the ties of) relationship because of (his) fear;

  • که عقیمست و ورا فرزند نیست  ** هم‌چو آتش با کسش پیوند نیست 
  • For he is childless and has no son: like fire, he has no kinship with any one.

  • هر چه یابد او بسوزد بر درد  ** چون نیابد هیچ خود را می‌خورد  530
  • Whatsoever he finds he destroys and tears to pieces: when he finds nothing, he devours himself.

  • هیچ شو وا ره تو از دندان او  ** رحم کم جو از دل سندان او 
  • Become naught, escape from his teeth: do not seek mercy from his (hard) anvil-like heart.

  • چونک گشتی هیچ از سندان مترس  ** هر صباح از فقر مطلق گیر درس 
  • After thou hast become naught, do not fear the anvil: take lessons every morning from absolute poverty.

  • هست الوهیت ردای ذوالجلال  ** هر که در پوشد برو گردد وبال 
  • Divinity is the mantle of the Lord of glory: it becomes a plague to any one who puts it on.