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  • 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

  • Saying, “We saw a camel going in this direction, a reddish camel (going) towards yonder pasturage.”
  • کاشتری دیدیم می‏رفت این طرف ** اشتر سرخی به سوی آن علف‏

  • One (of them) says, “It was crop-eared,” and another says, “Its saddlecloth was embroidered.” 2920
  • آن یکی گوید بریده گوش بود ** و آن دگر گوید جلش منقوش بود

  • One says, “The camel had (only) one eye,” and another says, “It (was suffering) from mange (and) had no hair.”
  • آن یکی گوید شتر یک چشم بود ** و آن دگر گوید ز گر بی‏پشم بود

  • For the sake of the reward every rascal, (speaking) at random, sets forth a hundred clues.
  • از برای مژدگانی صد نشان ** از گزافه هر خسی کرده بیان‏

  • On being perplexed amidst discordant doctrines and finding (a means of) escape and deliverance.
  • متردد شدن در میان مذهبهای مخالف و بیرون شو و مخلص یافتن‏

  • (This is) even as in the matter of knowledge (of God) every one describes (differently) the Unseen Object of description.
  • همچنان که هر کسی در معرفت ** می‏کند موصوف غیبی را صفت‏

  • The philosopher gives an explanation of another (a particular) kind; a scholastic theologian invalidates his statement;
  • فلسفی از نوع دیگر کرده شرح ** باحثی مر گفت او را کرده جرح‏

  • And some one else jeers at both of them, while another hypocritically tires himself to death (trying to prove that he has real knowledge of God). 2925
  • و آن دگر در هر دو طعنه می‏زند ** و آن دگر از زرق جانی می‏کند

  • Each one (of them) gives these indications of the Way, in order that it may be supposed that they belong to that Village.
  • هر یک از ره این نشانها ز آن دهند ** تا گمان آید که ایشان ز آن ده‏اند