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  • His brain became dull, his mind doting: his life is gone—and like (the letter) alif he hath nothing.
  • فکرگاهش کند شد عقلش خرف ** عمر شد چیزی ندارد چون الف‏

  • (As for) his saying, “I am thinking about it”—that too is only (part) of the deceit of the fleshly soul; 3085
  • آن چه می‏گوید در این اندیشه‏ام ** آن هم از دستان آن نفس است هم‏

  • And (as for) his saying, “He (God) is forgiving and merciful” —that is naught but a trick of the villainous flesh.
  • و انچه می‏گوید غفور است و رحیم ** نیست آن جز حیله‏ی نفس لئیم‏

  • O thou that art dead with anxiety because thy hands are empty of bread, what is this fear, since He is forgiving and merciful?
  • ای ز غم مرده که دست از نان تهی است ** چون غفور است و رحیم این ترس چیست‏

  • How an old man complained of his ailments to a doctor, and how the doctor answered him.
  • شکایت گفتن پیر مردی به طبیب از رنجوریها و جواب گفتن طبیب او را

  • An old man said to a doctor, “I am in torment because of my brain.”
  • گفت پیری مر طبیبی را که من ** در زحیرم از دماغ خویشتن‏

  • The doctor replied, “That weakness of brain is from age.” Said the old man, “There are spots of darkness on my eyes.”
  • گفت از پیری است آن ضعف دماغ ** گفت بر چشمم ز ظلمت هست داغ‏

  • “It is from age, O ancient Shaykh,” said the doctor. “Awful pain comes in my back,” said he. 3090
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ قدیم ** گفت پشتم درد می‏آید عظیم‏

  • “It is from age, O emaciated Shaykh” said the doctor. “Whatever I eat,” said he, “is not digested.”
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ نزار ** گفت هر چه می‏خورم نبود گوار

  • The doctor replied, “Weakness of stomach also is (the result) of age.” Said he, “When I breathe, respiration is hard for me.”
  • گفت ضعف معده هم از پیری است ** گفت وقت دم مرا دم گیری است‏

  • “Yes,” he said, “it is asthma*; when old age arrives, two hundred diseases come on.”
  • گفت آری انقطاع دم بود ** چون رسد پیری دو صد علت شود