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898-907

  • (Take heed) lest gildedness (imposture) cast you out of the (right) way, lest false imagination cast you into the well.
  • تا زر اندودیت از ره نفگند ** تا خیال کژ ترا چه نفگند

  • Seek the story (illustrating this) from (the book of) Kalíla (and Dimna), and search out the moral (contained) in the story.
  • از کلیله باز جو آن قصه را ** و اندر آن قصه طلب کن حصه را

  • Setting forth how the beasts of chase told the lion to trust in God and cease from exerting himself.
  • بیان توکل و ترک جهد گفتن نخجیران به شیر

  • A number of beasts of chase in a pleasant valley were continually harassed by a lion. 900
  • طایفه‌‌ی نخجیر در وادی خوش ** بودشان از شیر دایم کش مکش‌‌

  • Inasmuch as the lion was (springing) from ambush and carrying them away, that pasturage had become unpleasant to them all.
  • بس که آن شیر از کمین درمی‌‌ربود ** آن چرا بر جمله ناخوش گشته بود

  • They made a plot: they came to the lion, saying, “We will keep thee full-fed by means of a (fixed) allowance.
  • حیله کردند آمدند ایشان بشیر ** کز وظیفه ما ترا داریم سیر

  • Henceforth do not come in quest of any prey in order that this grass may not become bitter to us.”
  • بعد از این اندر پی صیدی میا ** تا نگردد تلخ بر ما این گیا

  • How the lion answered the beasts and explained the advantage of exertion.
  • جواب گفتن شیر نخجیران را و فایده‌‌ی جهد گفتن‌‌

  • “Yes,” said he, “if I see (find) good faith (on your part), not fraud, for often have I seen (suffered) frauds from Zayd and Bakr.
  • گفت آری گر وفا بینم نه مکر ** مکرها بس دیده‌‌ام از زید و بکر

  • I am done to death by the cunning and fraud of men, I am bitten by the sting of (human) snake and scorpion; 905
  • من هلاک فعل و مکر مردمم ** من گزیده‌‌ی زخم مار و کژدمم‌‌

  • (But) worse than all men in fraud and spite is the man of the flesh (nafs) lying in wait within me.
  • مردم نفس از درونم در کمین ** از همه مردم بتر در مکر و کین‌‌

  • My ear heard ‘The believer is not bitten (twice),’ and adopted (this) saying of the Prophet with heart and soul.”
  • گوش من لا یلدغ المؤمن شنید ** قول پیغمبر به جان و دل گزید

  • How the beasts asserted the superiority of trust in God to exertion and acquisition.
  • ترجیح نهادن نخجیران توکل را بر جهد و اکتساب‌‌