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  • آن سگ اصحاب خوش بد سیرتش  ** هیچ بودش منقصت زان صورتش 
  • The dog of the Companions (of the Cave) had a goodly character: was he any the worse on account of his (bodily) form?

  • مسخ ظاهر بود اهل سبت را  ** تا ببیند خلق ظاهر کبت را 
  • The “Fellows of the Sabbath” suffered outward metamorphosis, in order that the people might behold outwardly their ignominious fall.

  • از ره سر صد هزاران دگر  ** گشته از توبه شکستن خوک و خر 
  • Through breaking (vows of) repentance a hundred thousand others have become hogs and asses inwardly.

  • دوم بار آمدن روبه بر این خر گریخته تا باز بفریبدش 
  • How the fox approached the runaway ass a second time in order to beguile him once more.

  • پس بیامد زود روبه سوی خر  ** گفت خر از چون تو یاری الحذر  2600
  • Then the fox came quickly towards the ass: the ass said, “One must beware of a friend like you.

  • ناجوامردا چه کردم من ترا  ** که به پیش اژدها بردی مرا 
  • Ignoble creature, what did I do to you that you brought me into the presence of a dragon?

  • موجب کین تو با جانم چه بود  ** غیر خبث جوهر تو ای عنود 
  • What but the malignity of your nature was the cause of your enmity to my life, O perverse one?”—

  • هم‌چو کزدم کو گزد پای فتی  ** نارسیده از وی او را زحمتی 
  • Like the scorpion, which bites a man's foot though no inconvenience has come to it from him,

  • یا چو دیوی کو عدوی جان ماست  ** نارسیده زحمتش از ما و کاست 
  • Or like the Devil who is the enemy of our souls, though no inconvenience or injury has befallen him from us;

  • بلک طبعا خصم جان آدمیست  ** از هلاک آدمی در خرمیست  2605
  • Nay, but he is naturally the adversary of the human soul and rejoices at the destruction of Man;

  • از پی هر آدمی او نسکلد  ** خو و طبع زشت خود او کی هلد 
  • He never breaks off his pursuit of any human being: how should he abandon his wicked disposition and nature?

  • زانک خبث ذات او بی‌موجبی  ** هست سوی ظلم و عدوان جاذبی 
  • For, without any cause, his essential malignity pulls him on to (commit) injustice and tyranny.

  • هر زمان خواند ترا تا خرگهی  ** که در اندازد ترا اندر چهی 
  • He continually invites thee to a spacious tent in order that he may cast thee into a pit,

  • که فلان جا حوض آبست و عیون  ** تا در اندازد به حوضت سرنگون 
  • Saying, “In such and such a place there is a tank of water and (many) fountains,” that he may cast thee headlong into the tank.

  • آدمی را با همه وحی و نظر  ** اندر افکند آن لعین در شور و شر  2610
  • That accursed one caused an Adam, notwithstanding all his inspiration and insight, to fall into woe and bane,

  • بی‌گناهی بی‌گزند سابقی  ** که رسد او را ز آدم ناحقی 
  • Without any sin (having been committed against him) and without any previous harm having been wrongfully done to him by Adam.

  • گفت روبه آن طلسم سحر بود  ** که ترا در چشم آن شیری نمود 
  • The fox replied, “It was a spell of magic that appeared in your eyes as a lion;

  • ورنه من از تو به تن مسکین‌ترم  ** که شب و روز اندر آنجا می‌چرم 
  • Else I am more puny in body than you, and I always feed there by night and day.

  • گرنه زان گونه طلسمی ساختی  ** هر شکم‌خواری بدانجا تاختی 
  • If he (the magician) had not wrought a spell of that kind, every famishing (animal) would have run thither.

  • یک جهان بی‌نوا پر پیل و ارج  ** بی‌طلسمی کی بماندی سبز مرج  2615
  • (In) a foodless world full of elephants and rhinoceroses how should the meadow have remained verdant without (the protection of) a spell?

  • من ترا خود خواستم گفتن به درس  ** که چنان هولی اگر بینی مترس 
  • Truly, I meant to tell you, by way of instruction, not to be afraid if you should see a terrible thing like that;

  • لیک رفت از یاد علم آموزیت  ** که بدم مستغرق دلسوزیت 
  • But I forgot to impart (this) knowledge to you, because I was overwhelmed with grief and pity on your account.

  • دیدمت در جوع کلب و بی‌نوا  ** می‌شتابیدم که آیی تا دوا 
  • I saw you were ravenously hungry and without food, (therefore) I was making haste so that you might attain to the remedy;

  • ورنه با تو گفتمی شرح طلسم  ** که آن خیالی می‌نماید نیست جسم 
  • Otherwise I would have explained the spell to you: it (the lion) presents itself as an apparition, it is not a (real) body.”

  • جواب گفتن خر روباه را 
  • The reply of the ass to the fox.

  • گفت رو رو هین ز پیشم ای عدو  ** تا نبینم روی تو ای زشت‌رو  2620
  • “Hark,” cried the ass, “begone, begone from my presence, O enemy, that I may not see your face, O ugly one!

  • آن خدایی که ترا بدبخت کرد  ** روی زشتت را کریه و سخت کرد 
  • That God who made you ill-fated hath made your ugly face detestable and impudent.

  • با کدامین روی می‌آیی به من  ** این چنین سغری ندارد کرگدن 
  • With what face do you come to me? The rhinoceros has not such a hard skin (as you have).

  • رفته‌ای در خون جانم آشکار  ** که ترا من ره‌برم تا مرغزار 
  • You manifestly attempted to shed my life-blood, saying, ‘I will guide you to the meadow,’

  • تا بدیدم روی عزرائیل را  ** باز آوردی فن و تسویل را 
  • So that I beheld the face of Azrael; (now) again you have brought cunning and plausible suggestion (to bear on me).

  • گرچه من ننگ خرانم یا خرم  ** جانورم جان دارم این را کی خرم  2625
  • Though I am a disgrace to the asses or an ass (myself), (yet) I am possessed of life, I have a vital spirit: how should I purchase (accept and believe) this (palaver)?

  • آنچ من دیدم ز هول بی‌امان  ** طفل دیدی پیر گشتی در زمان 
  • If a child had seen the pitiless horror that I saw, it would instantly have become old.

  • بی‌دل و جان از نهیب آن شکوه  ** سرنگون خود را در افکندم ز کوه 
  • Deprived of heart and soul by dread of that awful object, I threw myself headlong from the mountain.

  • بسته شد پایم در آن دم از نهیب  ** چون بدیدم آن عذاب بی‌حجاب 
  • My legs were tied (paralysed) by terror as soon as I perceived that (cruel) torment without (any) barrier (between it and me).

  • عهد کردم با خدا کای ذوالمنن  ** برگشا زین بستگی تو پای من 
  • I made a promise to God, crying, ‘O gracious One, do Thou loose my legs from this bondage,

  • تا ننوشم وسوسه‌ی کس بعد ازین  ** عهد کردم نذر کردم ای معین  2630
  • So that henceforth I may not listen to any one's temptation: I promise, I vow (that I will not listen), O Helper!’

  • حق گشاده کرد آن دم پای من  ** زان دعا و زاری و ایمای من 
  • Thereupon God loosed my legs because of my prayer and humble entreaty and indication (of abasement);

  • ورنه اندر من رسیدی شیر نر  ** چون بدی در زیر پنجه‌ی شیر خر 
  • Else the fierce lion would have overtaken me: how would an ass have fared in the grip of a lion?

  • باز بفرستادت آن شیر عرین  ** سوی من از مکر ای بس القرین 
  • Now the lion of the jungle has sent you to me again for the purpose of deceit, O evil companion that you are!”

  • حق ذات پاک الله الصمد  ** که بود به مار بد از یار بد 
  • (I swear) by the truth of the Holy Person of Allah, the Lord, that a malign snake is better than a malign friend.

  • مار بد جانی ستاند از سلیم  ** یار بد آرد سوی نار مقیم  2635
  • The malign snake takes a soul (life) from the man it has bitten; the malign friend leads him into the everlasting Fire.

  • از قرین بی‌قول و گفت و گوی او  ** خو بدزدد دل نهان از خوی او 
  • Thy heart secretly steals its disposition from the disposition of thy companion, without speech and talk on his part.

  • چونک او افکند بر تو سایه را  ** دزدد آن بی‌مایه از تو مایه را 
  • When he casts his shadow over thee, that unprincipled one steals away thy principles from thee.

  • عقل تو گر اژدهایی گشت مست  ** یار بد او را زمرد دان که هست 
  • (Even) if thy reason has become (as strong as) a furious dragon, know that the evil companion is an emerald to it.

  • دیده‌ی عقلت بدو بیرون جهد  ** طعن اوت اندر کف طاعون نهد 
  • Through him the eye of thy reason starts out (of the socket): his (vicious) thrusts deliver thee into the hands of pestilence.

  • جواب گفتن روبه خر را 
  • The answer of the fox to the ass.

  • گفت روبه صاف ما را درد نیست  ** لیک تخییلات وهمی خورد نیست  2640
  • The fox said, “There are no dregs in my pure liquor, but the illusions of imagination are not small.

  • این همه وهم توست ای ساده‌دل  ** ورنه بر تو نه غشی دارم نه غل 
  • All this is your imagination, O simpleton, for I bear no malice and rancour against you.

  • از خیال زشت خود منگر به من  ** بر محبان از چه داری س ظن 
  • Do not regard me from (the standpoint of) your evil fancy: wherefore do you cherish ill thoughts against your lovers?

  • ظن نیکو بر بر اخوان صفا  ** گرچه آید ظاهرا زیشان جفا 
  • Think well of the sincere, even though unkindness come from them in appearance.

  • این خیال و وهم بد چون شد پدید  ** صد هزاران یار را از هم برید 
  • When this evil fancy and imagination is manifested, it severs a hundred thousand friends from one another.

  • مشفقی گر کرد جور و امتحان  ** عقل باید که نباشد بدگمان  2645
  • If an affectionate (friend) has behaved unjustly and made a trial (of one's loyalty), understanding is needed to prevent one from thinking ill (of him).

  • خصاه من بدرگ نبودم زشت‌اسم  ** آنک دیدی بد نبد بود آن طلسم 
  • In particular, I, who have a bad name, was not evil-natured (in regard to you): what you saw was nothing evil, it was (only) a magic spell;