Rumi's Masnavi - Now we come to the two-coloured (double-faced) peacock, who displays himself for the sake of name and fame.

Now we come to the two-coloured (double-faced) peacock, who displays himself for the sake of name and fame. 395

آمدیم اکنون به طاوس دورنگ ** کو کند جلوه برای نام و ننگ

His desire is to catch people: he is ignorant of good and evil and of the result and use of that (catching).

همت او صید خلق از خیر و شر ** وز نتیجه و فایده‌ی آن بی‌خبر

He catches his prey ignorantly, like a trap: what knowledge has the trap concerning the purpose of its action?

بی‌خبر چون دام می‌گیرد شکار ** دام را چه علم از مقصود کار

What harm (comes) to the trap, or what benefit, from catching (its prey)? I wonder at its idle catching.

دام را چه ضر و چه نفع از گرفت ** زین گرفت بیهده‌ش دارم شگفت

O brother, thou hast uplifted thy friends with two hundred marks of affection, and (then) abandoned (them).

ای برادر دوستان افراشتی ** با دو صد دلداری و بگذاشتی

This has been thy business from the hour of (thy) birth: to catch people with the trap of love. 400

کارت این بودست از وقت ولاد ** صید مردم کردن از دام وداد

From that pursuit (of people) and throng (of friends) and vainglory and self existence wilt thou get any warp or woof? Try and see!

زان شکار و انبهی و باد و بود ** دست در کن هیچ یابی تار و پود

Most (of thy life) is gone and the day is late; (yet) thou art still busy in pursuit of people.

بیشتر رفتست و بیگاهست روز ** تو به جد در صید خلقانی هنوز

Go on catching one and releasing another from the trap and pursuing another, like mean folk;

آن یکی می‌گیر و آن می‌هل ز دام ** وین دگر را صید می‌کن چون لام

Then again release this one and seek the other! Here's a game of heedless children!

باز این را می‌هل و می‌جو دگر ** اینت لعب کودکان بی‌خبر