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1429-1438

  • Having heard a form (of words), you have become its expounder, (though) ignorant of (the meaning of) your words— like parrots.
  • صورتی بنشینده گشتی ترجمان  ** بی‌خبر از گفت خود چون طوطیان 

  • The instruction given by a Shaykh to disciples, or by a prophet to a people, who are unable to receive the Divine lesson and have no familiar acquaintance with God, may be compared with the case of a parrot which has no such acquaintance with the (inward) form of a man, so that it should be able to receive instruction (directly) from him. God most High holds the Shaykh in front of the disciple, as the mirror (is held) in front of the parrot, while He (Himself) dictates from behind the mirror, saying, “Do not move thy tongue to hasten it (the Revelation); it is naught but an inspiration that is inspired (by God).” This is the beginning of an endless problem. When the parrot, which ye call the image, moves its beak in the mirror, the movement is not (made) by its own volition and power: it is the reflexion of the (movement made in) articulation by the parrot outside, which is the learner; not the reflexion of (the movement made by) the Teacher behind the mirror; but the external parrot's articulation is controlled by the Teacher. This, then, is (only) a comparison, not a (complete) similitude.
  • تمثیل تلقین شیخ مریدان را و پیغامبر امت را کی ایشان طاقت تلقین حق ندارند و با حق‌الف ندارند چنانک طوطی با صورت آدمی الف ندارد کی ازو تلقین تواند گرفت حق تعالی شیخ را چون آیینه‌ای پیش مرید هم‌چو طوطی دارد و از پس آینه تلقین می‌کند لا تحرک به لسانک ان هو الا وحی یوحی اینست ابتدای مسله‌ی بی‌منتهی چنانک منقار جنبانیدن طوطی اندرون آینه کی خیالش می‌خوانی بی‌اختیار و تصرف اوست عکس خواندن طوطی برونی کی متعلمست نه عکس آن معلم کی پس آینه است و لیکن خواندن طوطی برونی تصرف آن معلم است پس این مثال آمد نه مثل 

  • A parrot sees its reflexion (image) facing it in the mirror. 1430
  • طوطیی در آینه می‌بیند او  ** عکس خود را پیش او آورده رو 

  • The teacher is concealed behind the mirror: that sweet-tongued well-instructed man is talking.
  • در پس آیینه آن استا نهان  ** حرف می‌گوید ادیب خوش‌زبان 

  • The little parrot thinks that these words uttered in low tones are spoken by the parrot in the mirror.
  • طوطیک پنداشته کین گفت پست  ** گفتن طوطیست که اندر آینه‌ست 

  • Therefore it learns (human) speech from one of its own kind, being unaware of the cunning of that old wolf.
  • پس ز جنس خویش آموز سخن  ** بی‌خبر از مکر آن گرگ کهن 

  • He is teaching it behind the mirror; otherwise (it would not talk, for) it does not learn except from its congeners.
  • از پس آیینه می‌آموزدش  ** ورنه ناموزد جز از جنس خودش 

  • It (really) learned to talk from that accomplished man, but it is ignorant of his meaning and mystery. 1435
  • گفت را آموخت زان مرد هنر  ** لیک از معنی و سرش بی‌خبر 

  • It received speech, word by word, from Man; (but) what should the little parrot know of Man except this?
  • از بشر بگرفت منطق یک به یک  ** از بشر جز این چه داند طوطیک 

  • Similarly, the disciple full (of egoism) sees himself in the mirror of the Shaykh's body.
  • هم‌چنان در آینه‌ی جسم ولی  ** خویش را بیند مردی ممتلی 

  • How should he see Universal Reason behind the mirror at the time of speech and discourse?
  • از پس آیینه عقل کل را  ** کی ببیند وقت گفت و ماجرا