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  • Then again he was saying, “If this time I escape from this neck-breaking affliction,
  • باز می‌گفت او که گر این بار من ** وا رهم زین محنت گردن‌شکن

  • I will not make my home except in a sea: I will not make a lake my dwelling-place. 2285
  • من نسازم جز به دریایی وطن ** آبگیری را نسازم من سکن

  • I will seek the boundless sea and become safe: I will go in safety and welfare for ever.”
  • آب بی‌حد جویم و آمن شوم ** تا ابد در امن و صحت می‌روم

  • Explaining that the promise made by the fool at the moment of seizure (punishment) and contrition is faithless, for though they should be sent back, they would surely return to that which they were forbidden to do, and verily they are liars. The false dawn keeps not faith.
  • بیان آنک عهد کردن احمق وقت گرفتاری و ندم هیچ وفایی ندارد کی لو ردوالعادوا لما نهوا عنه و انهم لکاذبون صبح کاذب وفا ندارد

  • Reason was saying to him, “Folly is with thee: with Folly (as thy companion), the promise will be broken.
  • عقل می‌گفتش حماقت با توست ** با حماقت عقل را آید شکست

  • The keeping of promises appertains to reason: thou hast not reason: begone, O thou whose value is that of an ass!
  • عقل را باشد وفای عهدها ** تو نداری عقل رو ای خربها

  • Reason remembers its covenant: understanding rends the veil of forgetfulness.
  • عقل را یاد آید از پیمان خود ** پرده‌ی نسیان بدراند خرد

  • Since thou hast not reason, forgetfulness is thy ruler: it is thy enemy and the bringer-to-naught of thy devising.” 2290
  • چونک عقلت نیست نسیان میر تست ** دشمن و باطل کن تدبیر تست

  • From deficiency of reason the wretched moth does not re member the flame and the burning and the (crackling) sound (when its wings are scorched).
  • از کمی عقل پروانه‌ی خسیس ** یاد نارد ز آتش و سوز و حسیس

  • When its wings are burnt, it repents; (but) cupidity and forgetfulness dash it (again) into the flame.
  • چونک پرش سوخت توبه می‌کند ** آز و نسیانش بر آتش می‌زند

  • Grasp and apprehension and retentiveness and keeping in mind belong to Reason, for Reason has raised those (faculties).
  • ضبط و درک و حافظی و یادداشت ** عقل را باشد که عقل آن را فراشت