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  • How should bread restore to health the spirit that averts its heart from the command of the Beloved Spirit?
  • نان کجا اصلاح آن جانی کند ** کو دل از فرمان جانان بر کند
  • Or dost thou suppose that when thou readest the words of the Mathnawí thou hearest them gratis (without giving aught in return)?
  • یا تو پنداری که حرف مثنوی ** چون بخوانی رایگانش بشنوی
  • Or that the discourse of wisdom and the hidden mystery comes easily into thy ear and mouth? 3460
  • یا کلام حکمت و سر نهان ** اندر آید زغبه در گوش و دهان
  • It comes in, but, like fables, it shows (only) the husk, not the kernel of the berries,
  • اندر آید لیک چون افسانه‌ها ** پوست بنماید نه مغز دانه‌ها
  • (As) a sweetheart who has drawn a veil over her head and face and has hidden her face from thine eye.
  • در سر و رو در کشیده چادری ** رو نهان کرده ز چشمت دلبری
  • By reason of contumacy the Sháhnáma or Kalíla seems to thee just like the Qur’án.
  • شاه‌نامه یا کلیله پیش تو ** هم‌چنان باشد که قرآن از عتو
  • The difference between truth and falsehood is (visible) at the moment when the collyrium of (Divine) favour opens the eye;
  • فرق آنگه باشد از حق و مجاز ** که کند کحل عنایت چشم باز
  • Otherwise, dung and musk are both the same to one whose nose is obstructed (by disease), since (in him) there is no sense of smell. 3465
  • ورنه پشک و مشک پیش اخشمی ** هر دو یکسانست چون نبود شمی
  • His aim is to divert himself from ennui (by reading such books), and neglect the Word of the Almighty,
  • خویشتن مشغول کردن از ملال ** باشدش قصد از کلام ذوالجلال
  • That by means of that (entertaining) discourse he may quench the fire of distress and anxiety and provide a cure (for his malady).
  • کاتش وسواس را و غصه را ** زان سخن بنشاند و سازد دوا