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2116-2125

  • For nightingales the garden is the proper place; for the beetle the best home is in ordure.”
  • بلبلان را جای می‏زیبد چمن ** مر جعل را در چمین خوشتر وطن‏

  • Since God has kept me pure from filth, how were it seemly to appoint a foul one for (companionship with) me?
  • حق مرا چون از پلیدی پاک داشت ** چون سزد بر من پلیدی را گماشت‏

  • I had (in me) a vein of them (of their nature). He (God) cut it out: how (then) will he with the vein of evil attain unto me?
  • یک رگم ز ایشان بد و آن را برید ** در من آن بد رگ کجا خواهد رسید

  • One mark of Adam from eternity was this, that the angels should lay their heads (on the ground) before him, because it was his place (proper to his dignity).
  • یک نشان آدم آن بود از ازل ** که ملایک سر نهندش از محل‏

  • Another mark was that Iblís, saying, “I am the king and chief,” should not lay down his head before him. 2120
  • یک نشان دیگر آن که آن بلیس ** ننهدش سر که منم شاه و رئیس‏

  • If, then, Iblís too had become a worshipper (of Adam), he (Adam) would not have been Adam: he would have been another.
  • پس اگر ابلیس هم ساجد شدی ** او نبودی آدم او غیری بدی‏

  • At once the worship of every angel is the test of him, and the denial (of him) by that enemy (Iblís) is the proof of him.
  • هم سجود هر ملک میزان اوست ** هم جحود آن عدو برهان اوست‏

  • At once the acknowledgment (made) by the angels is witness for him, and the disbelief of that petty cur (Iblís) is witness for him.
  • هم گواه اوست اقرار ملک ** هم گواه اوست کفران سگک‏

  • Conclusion of the (story concerning the) trust of that deluded man in the fawningness of the bear.
  • تتمه اعتماد آن مغرور بر تملق خرس‏

  • The man fell asleep, and the bear kept driving away the flies (which were) on him, but in spite of him they soon came back again.
  • شخص خفت و خرس می‏راندش مگس ** وز ستیز آمد مگس زو باز پس‏

  • Several times he drove them from the youth’s face, but soon they came hurrying back once more. 2125
  • چند بارش راند از روی جوان ** آن مگس زو باز می‏آمد دوان‏