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  • The limb that is cut off from the body becomes dead: (when) newly cut off, it moves, but not for long.
  • عضو گردد مرده کز تن وا برید  ** نو بریده جنبد اما نی مدید 

  • (Similarly) he who drank of the cup of Alast last year, this year he suffers the pain and headache (in consequence of having drunk), 830
  • هر که از جام الست او خورد پار  ** هستش امسال آفت رنج و خمار 

  • While he who, like a dog, is by nature attached to the kennel —how should he have the desire for (spiritual) sovereignty?
  • وآنک چون سگ ز اصل کهدانی بود  ** کی مرورا حرص سلطانی بود 

  • (Only) he that has sinned seeks to repent; (only) he that has lost the (right) way cries “Alas!”
  • توبه او جوید که کردست او گناه  ** آه او گوید که گم کردست راه 

  • Story of the young gazelle being confined in the donkey-stable, and how the donkey assailed the stranger, now with hostility and now with mockery, and how it was afflicted by (having to eat) dry straw which is not its (proper) food. And this is a description of the chosen servant of God amongst worldlings and those addicted to passion and sensuality; for “Islam (was) strange (when it first) appeared, and will become strange again, and blessed are the strangers.” The Messenger of Allah spake the truth.
  • قصه‌ی محبوس شدن آن آهوبچه در آخر خران و طعنه‌ی آن خران ببر آن غریب گاه به جنگ و گاه به تسخر و مبتلی گشتن او به کاه خشک کی غذای او نیست و این صفت بنده‌ی خاص خداست میان اهل دنیا و اهل هوا و شهوت کی الاسلام بدا غریبا و سیعود غریبا فطوبی للغرباء صدق رسول الله 

  • A hunter captured a gazelle: the merciless man put it into a stable.
  • آهوی را کرد صیادی شکار  ** اندر آخر کردش آن بی‌زینهار 

  • (Acting) like oppressors, he made a stable full of cows and donkeys the prison of the gazelle.
  • آخری را پر ز گاوان و خران  ** حبس آهو کرد چون استمگران 

  • The gazelle, wild with terror, was fleeing in every direction: at night he (the hunter) poured (pieces of chopped) straw before the donkeys. 835
  • آهو از وحشت به هر سو می‌گریخت  ** او به پیش آن خران شب کاه ریخت 

  • (Moved) by hunger and (ravenous) appetite, every cow and donkey was devouring the straw, (as though it were) sweeter than sugar.
  • از مجاعت و اشتها هر گاو و خر  ** کاه را می‌خورد خوشتر از شکر 

  • Now the gazelle would run in fright from side to side, now it would turn its face away from the smoke and dust of the straw.
  • گاه آهو می‌رمید از سو به سو  ** گه ز دود و گرد که می‌تافت رو 

  • Whosoever is left (in company) with his opposite, they (who are wise) have deemed that punishment (terrible) as death,
  • هرکرا با ضد خود بگذاشتند  ** آن عقوبت را چو مرگ انگاشتند