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2351-2360

  • The fox said to the lion, “I will serve thee (obediently): I will contrive expedients and rob him (the ass) of his wits.
  • گفت روبه شیر را خدمت کنم  ** حیله‌ها سازم ز عقلش بر کنم 

  • Cunning and enchantment is my business: it is my business to beguile and lead astray.”
  • حیله و افسونگری کار منست  ** کار من دستان و از ره بردنست 

  • Hastening from the mountain-top towards the river, he found that miserable emaciated ass.
  • از سر که جانب جو می‌شتافت  ** آن خر مسکین لاغر را بیافت 

  • Then he saluted him cordially and advanced: he advanced to meet that poor simpleton,
  • پس سلام گرم کرد و پیش رفت  ** پیش آن ساده دل درویش رفت 

  • And said (to him), “How are you in this arid desert (where you live) amidst stones and on sterile ground?” 2355
  • گفت چونی اندرین صحرای خشک  ** در میان سنگ لاخ و جای خشک 

  • The ass replied, “Whether I am in pain or in Iram, God has made it my portion, and I am grateful for it.
  • گفت خر گر در غمم گر در ارم  ** قسمتم حق کرد من زان شاکرم 

  • I give thanks to the Friend (God) in good and evil estate, because in (the Divine) destiny there is worse than (the present) ill.
  • شکر گویم دوست را در خیر و شر  ** زانک هست اندر قضا از بد بتر 

  • Since He is the Dispenser of portions, complaint is (an act of) infidelity. Patience is needful: patience is the key to the gift (bounteous reward).
  • چونک قسام اوست کفر آمد گله  ** صبر باید صبر مفتاح الصله 

  • All except God are enemies: He (alone) is the Friend: how is it good (seemly) to complain of a friend to an enemy?
  • غیر حق جمله عدواند اوست دوست  ** با عدو از دوست شکوت کی نکوست 

  • So long as He gives me buttermilk I will not desire honey, for every pleasure has a pain joined with it.” 2360
  • تا دهد دوغم نخواهم انگبین  ** زانک هر نعمت غمی دارد قرین 

  • Story of an ass belonging to a seller of firewood, which saw some well-fed Arab horses in the royal stable and wished for the same fortune. (This story is intended) to convey the lesson that one ought not to wish for anything but (God's) forgiveness and favour; for though you are in a hundred kinds of pain, they all become sweet (to you) when you feel the delight of being forgiven; and for the rest, every fortune that you wish for before you have experienced it is accompanied by a pain which you do not perceive (at the moment); as (for example) in every trap the bait is visible while the snare is concealed. You (who) have been caught in this one trap are (still) wishing (and saying to yourself), “Would that I had gone after those (other) baits!” You fancy that those baits are without a trap.
  • حکایت دیدن خر هیزم‌فروش با نوایی اسپان تازی را بر آخر خاص و تمنا بردن آن دولت را در موعظه‌ی آنک تمنا نباید بردن الا مغفرت و عنایت و هدایت کی اگر در صد لون رنجی چون لذت مغفرت بود همه شیرین شود باقی هر دولتی کی آن را ناآزموده تمنی می‌بری با آن رنجی قرینست کی آن را نمی‌بینی چنانک از هر دامی دانه پیدا بود و فخ پنهان تو درین یک دام مانده‌ای تمنی می‌بری کی کاشکی با آن دانه‌ها رفتمی پنداری کی آن دانه‌ها بی‌دامست