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3041-3050

  • The (only) one that possessed speech without being taught is God, whose attributes are separated (exempt) from infirmities,
  • آنک بی‌تعلیم بد ناطق خداست ** که صفات او ز علتها جداست

  • Or one like Adam whom God instructed without the screen (mediation) of mother and nurse and necessaries,
  • یا چو آدم کرده تلقینش خدا ** بی‌حجاب مادر و دایه و ازا

  • Or the Messiah (Christ) who, through being taught by the Loving (God), at his birth came speaking into the world,
  • یا مسیحی که به تعلیم ودود ** در ولادت ناطق آمد در وجود

  • For the purpose of repelling the suspicion as to his birth (and proving) that he was not born of fornication and wickedness.
  • از برای دفع تهمت در ولاد ** که نزادست از زنا و از فساد

  • A (great) shaking was required in the effort that the buttermilk might render back that butter from its (inmost) heart. 3045
  • جنبشی بایست اندر اجتهاد ** تا که دوغ آن روغن از دل باز داد

  • The butter in the buttermilk is (invisible) like non-existence; the buttermilk has raised its banner (has become manifest) in existence.
  • روغن اندر دوغ باشد چون عدم ** دوغ در هستی برآورده علم

  • That which seems to you to be (really) existent is (mere) skin, while that which seems to have perished—that (in reality) is the root.
  • آنک هستت می‌نماید هست پوست ** وآنک فانی می‌نماید اصل اوست

  • The buttermilk has not (yet) taken (the form of) butter and is old: lay it (in store) and do not squander it till you pick out (the butter from it).
  • دوغ روغن ناگرفتست و کهن ** تا بنگزینی بنه خرجش مکن

  • Hark, turn it knowingly from hand to hand (side to side), that it may reveal that which it has hidden;
  • هین بگردانش به دانش دست دست ** تا نماید آنچ پنهان کرده است

  • For this perishable (body) is a proof of the everlasting (spirit): the maundering of the intoxicated is a proof of (the existence of) the Cupbearer. 3050
  • زآنک این فانی دلیل باقیست ** لابه‌ی مستان دلیل ساقیست

  • Another parable on the same subject.
  • مثال دیگر هم درین معنی