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1212-1236

  • دیگ را تدریج و استادانه جوش  ** کار ناید قلیه‌ی دیوانه جوش 
  • Let the cooking-pot boil gradually, as a skilful (cook) does: the stew boiled in a mad hurry is of no use.
  • حق نه قادر بود بر خلق فلک  ** در یکی لحظه به کن بی‌هیچ شک 
  • Was not God able to create heaven in one moment by (the word) “Be”? Without any doubt (He was).
  • پس چرا شش روز آن را درکشید  ** کل یوم الف عام ای مستفید 
  • Why, then, O seeker of instruction, did He extend (the time) for it to six days, every day (being as long as) a thousand years?
  • خلقت طفل از چه اندر نه مه‌است  ** زانک تدریج از شعار آن شه‌است  1215
  • Wherefore is the creation of a child (completed) in nine months? Because gradualness is a characteristic of (the action of) that King.
  • خلقت آدم چرا چل صبح بود  ** اندر آن گل اندک‌اندک می‌فزود 
  • Why was (the time occupied in) the creation of Adam forty mornings? (Because) He (God) was adding (perfections) to that clay little by little,
  • نه چو تو ای خام که اکنون تاختی  ** طفلی و خود را تو شیخی ساختی 
  • Not like you, O foolish one, who have rushed forward just now: you are a child, and you have made yourself out to be an Elder.
  • بر دویدی چون کدو فوق همه  ** کو ترا پای جهاد و ملحمه 
  • You have run up, like a gourd, to the top of all, (but) where is the (spiritual) warfare and combat to sustain you?
  • تکیه کردی بر درختان و جدار  ** بر شدی ای اقرعک هم قرع‌وار 
  • You have rested on trees and walls for support: you have climbed up like a pumpkin, O little baldhead.
  • اول ار شد مرکبت سرو سهی  ** لیک آخر خشک و بی‌مغزی تهی  1220
  • If at first you mounted on a tall cypress, yet in the end you are dry and pulpless and empty.
  • رنگ سبزت زرد شد ای قرع زود  ** زانک از گلگونه بود اصلی نبود 
  • Your green (fresh) colour soon turned yellow (faded), O pumpkin, for it was derived from rouge, it was not original.
  • داستان آن عجوزه کی روی زشت خویشتن را جندره و گلگونه می‌ساخت و ساخته نمی‌شد و پذیرا نمی‌آمد 
  • Story of the old woman who used to depilate and rouge her ugly face, though it could never be put right and become pleasing.
  • بود کمپیری نودساله کلان  ** پر تشنج روی و رنگش زعفران 
  • There was a decrepit old woman aged ninety years, her face covered with wrinkles and her complexion (yellow as) saffron.
  • چون سر سفره رخ او توی توی  ** لیک در وی بود مانده عشق شوی 
  • Her face was in folds like the surface of a traveller's food-wallet, but there remained in her the passionate desire for a husband.
  • ریخت دندانهاش و مو چون شیر شد  ** قد کمان و هر حسش تغییر شد 
  • Her teeth had dropped out and her hair had become (white) as milk: her figure was (bent) like a bow, and every sense in her was decayed.
  • عشق شوی و شهوت و حرصش تمام  ** عشق صید و پاره‌پاره گشته دام  1225
  • Her passion for a husband and her lust and desire were (there) in full (force): the passion for snaring (was there), though the trap had fallen to pieces.
  • مرغ بی‌هنگام و راه بی‌رهی  ** آتشی پر در بن دیگ تهی 
  • (She was like) a cock that crows at the wrong time, a road that leads nowhere, a big fire beneath an empty kettle;
  • عاشق میدان و اسپ و پای نی  ** عاشق زمر و لب و سرنای نی 
  • (Like one who is) exceedingly fond of the race-course, but has no horse and no means of running; (or) exceedingly fond of piping, but having neither lip nor pipe.
  • حرص در پیری جهودان را مباد  ** ای شقیی که خداش این حرص داد 
  • May (even) Jews have no (such) cupidity in (their) old age! Oh, (how) miserable is he on whom God hath bestowed this cupidity!
  • ریخت دندانهای سگ چون پیر شد  ** ترک مردم کرد و سرگین‌گیر شد 
  • A dog's teeth drop out when it grows old: it leaves people (alone) and takes to (eating) dung;
  • این سگان شصت ساله را نگر  ** هر دمی دندان سگشان تیزتر  1230
  • (But) look at these sexagenarian dogs! Their dog-teeth get sharper at every moment.
  • پیر سگ را ریخت پشم از پوستین  ** این سگان پیر اطلس‌پوش بین 
  • The hairs drop from the fur of an old dog; (but) see these old (human) dogs clad in satin!
  • عشقشان و حرصشان در فرج و زر  ** دم به دم چون نسل سگ بین بیشتر 
  • See how their passionate desire and greed for women and gold, like the progeny of dogs, is increasing continually!
  • این چنین عمری که مایه‌ی دوزخ است  ** مر قصابان غضب را مسلخ است 
  • Such a life as this, which is Hell's stock-in-trade, is a shambles for the butchers (executioners) of (the Divine) Wrath;
  • چون بگویندش که عمر تو دراز  ** می‌شود دلخوش دهانش از خنده باز 
  • (Yet) when people say to him, “May your life be long!” he is delighted and opens his mouth in laughter.
  • این چنین نفرین دعا پندارد او  ** چشم نگشاید سری بر نارد او  1235
  • He thinks a curse like this is a benediction: he never uncloses his (inward) eye or raises his head once (from the slumber of heedlessness).
  • گر بدیدی یک سر موی از معاد  ** اوش گفتی این چنین عمر تو باد 
  • If he had seen (even as much as) a hair's tip of the future state, he would have said to him (who wished him long life), “May thy life be like this!”
  • داستان آن درویش کی آن گیلانی را دعا کرد کی خدا ترا به سلامت به خان و مان باز رساناد 
  • Story of the dervish who blessed a man of Gílán, saying, “May God bring thee back in safety to thy home and household!”