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2089-2098

  • If to-night the mouth of the cooking-pot is left open, yet the cat must have discretion.
  • دیگ را گر باز ماند امشب دهن ** گربه را هم شرم باید داشتن

  • If that glorious one (the saint) has feigned to be asleep, he is (really) very much awake: do not carry off his turban. 2090
  • خویشتن گر خفته کرد آن خوب فر ** سخت بیدارست دستارش مبر

  • How long, O contumacious man devoid of (spiritual) excellence, wilt thou utter these Devil's enchantments in the presence of God's elect one?
  • چند گویی ای لجوج بی‌صفا ** این فسون دیو پیش مصطفی

  • This company (of the elect) have a hundred thousand forbearances, every one of which is (immovable) as a hundred mountains.
  • صد هزاران حلم دارند این گروه ** هر یکی حلمی از آنها صد چو کوه

  • Their forbearance makes a fool of the wary and causes the keen-witted man with a hundred eyes to lose his way.
  • حلمشان بیدار را ابله کند ** زیرک صد چشم را گمره کند

  • Their forbearance, like fine choice wine, mounts by nice degrees up to the brain.
  • حلمشان هم‌چون شراب خوب نغز ** نغز نغزک بر رود بالای مغز

  • Behold the man drunken with that marvellous (earthly) wine: the drunken man has begun to move crookedly like the queen (in chess). 2095
  • مست را بین زان شراب پرشگفت ** هم‌چو فرزین مست کژ رفتن گرفت

  • From (the effect of) that quickly-catching wine the (vigorous) youth is falling in the middle of the road, like an aged man.
  • مرد برنا زان شراب زودگیر ** در میان راه می‌افتد چو پیر

  • Especially (consider the effect of) this (spiritual) wine which is from the jar of Balá—not the wine whereof the intoxication lasts (only) one night;
  • خاصه این باده که از خم بلی است ** نه میی که مستی او یکشبیست

  • (But) that (wine) from which, (by drinking it) at dessert and in migration (from place to place), the Men of the Cave (the Seven Sleepers) lost their reason for three hundred and nine years.
  • آنک آن اصحاب کهف از نقل و نقل ** سیصد و نه سال گم کردند عقل