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2909-2918

  • They have received the (religious) Law (directly from God) without mechanical imitation (of others): they have taken that (unadulterated) coin without (applying) the touchstone.
  • شرع بی‏تقلید می‏پذرفته‏اند ** بی‏محک آن نقد را بگرفته‏اند

  • The Wisdom of the Qur’án is like the true believer's stray camel: every one has certain (intuitive) knowledge of his own stray. 2910
  • حکمت قرآن چو ضاله‏ی مومن است ** هر کسی در ضاله‏ی خود موقن است‏

  • Story of the person who was seeking after his stray camel and inquiring about it.
  • قصه‏ی آن شخص که اشتر ضاله‏ی خود می‏جست و می‏پرسید

  • (If) you have lost a camel and sought it busily, how should you not know,when you find it, that it is yours?
  • اشتری گم کردی و جستیش چست ** چون بیابی چون ندانی کان تست‏

  • What is the stray? You have lost a she-camel: (she has) fled from your herd into a veil (of concealment).
  • ضاله چه بود ناقه‏ای گم کرده‏ای ** از کفت بگریخته در پرده‏ای‏

  • The caravaneers have begun to load, (but) your camel has disappeared from the midst (of the caravan).
  • آمده در بار کردن کاروان ** اشتر تو ز آن میان گشته نهان‏

  • You are running to and fro with parched lips; the caravan is (now) far away, and night is near.
  • می‏دوی این سو و آن سو خشک لب ** کاروان شد دور و نزدیک است شب‏

  • Your baggage is left on the ground, (lying) on the road of peril, (whilst) you are running about in search of the camel, 2915
  • رخت مانده بر زمین در راه خوف ** تو پی اشتر دوان گشته به طوف‏

  • Crying, “O Moslems, who has seen a camel which this morning escaped from a stable?
  • کای مسلمانان که دیده ست اشتری ** جسته بیرون بامداد از آخوری‏

  • Whoever will tell (me) a clue to my camel, I will give so many dirhems as a reward (for the information).”
  • هر که بر گوید نشان از اشترم ** مژدگانی می‏دهم چندین درم‏

  • You are requesting clues from every one: every rascal is making a mock of you on this account,
  • باز می‏جویی نشان از هر کسی ** ریش‏خندت می‏کند زین هر خسی‏