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2822-2831

  • If at first the ass repented and swore (to keep his vow), in the end, because of his asininity, he made a (great) lapse.
  • گر خر اول توبه و سوگند خورد  ** عاقبت هم از خری خبطی بکرد 

  • Greed makes one blind and foolish and ignorant: to fools it makes death (seem) easy;
  • حرص کور و احمق و نادان کند  ** مرگ را بر احمقان آسان کند 

  • (But) death is not (really) easy to the souls of asses who do not possess the splendour of the everlasting soul.
  • نیست آسان مرگ بر جان خران  ** که ندارند آب جان جاودان 

  • Since he (the ass) does not possess the everlasting soul, he is damned: his boldness in (facing) death is the result of folly. 2825
  • چون ندارد جان جاوید او شقیست  ** جرات او بر اجل از احمقیست 

  • Endeavour that your soul may become immortal, so that on the day of death you will have a (goodly) store.
  • جهد کن تا جان مخلد گردد  ** تا به روز مرگ برگی باشدت 

  • Again, he (the ass) had no confidence in the Provider (to assure him) that He would scatter over him largesse from the Unseen.
  • اعتمادش نیز بر رازق نبود  ** که بر افشاند برو از غیب جود 

  • Until now, the (Divine) Bounty had not kept him without the daily provision, though at times He subjected his body to a (severe) hunger.
  • تاکنونش فضل بی‌روزی نداشت  ** گرچه گه‌گه بر تنش جوعی گماشت 

  • Were hunger absent, in consequence of indigestion a hundred other afflictions would raise their heads in you.
  • گر نباشد جوع صد رنج دگر  ** از پی هیضه بر آرد از تو سر 

  • Truly the affliction of hunger is better than those maladies in respect both of its subtilty and its lightness and (its effect on devotional) work. 2830
  • رنج جوع اولی بود خود زان علل  ** هم به لطف و هم به خفت هم عمل 

  • The affliction of hunger is purer than (all other) afflictions, especially (as) in hunger there are a hundred advantages and excellences.
  • رنج جوع از رنجها پاکیزه‌تر  ** خاصه در جوعست صد نفع و هنر 

  • Explaining the excellency of abstinence and hunger.
  • در بیان فضیلت احتما و جوع