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2501-2510

  • For this (object) God brought us forth (from non-existence): “I did not create mankind except to serve Me.”
  • بهر این آوردمان یزدان برون  ** ما خلقت الانس الا یعبدون 

  • How did that knowledge (of his) profit Sámirí, whom the skill (shown in making the golden Calf) banished from God's door?
  • سامری را آن هنر چه سود کرد  ** کان فن از باب اللهش مردود کرد 

  • What did Qárún gain by his alchemy? See how the earth bore him down to its abyss.
  • چه کشید از کیمیا قارون ببین  ** که فرو بردش به قعر خود زمین 

  • What, after all, did Bu ’l-Hakam (Abú Jahl) get from (intellectual) knowledge? On account of his unbelief he went headlong into Hell.
  • بوالحکم آخر چه بر بست از هنر  ** سرنگون رفت او ز کفران در سقر 

  • Know that (true) knowledge consists in seeing fire plainly, not in prating that smoke is evidence of fire. 2505
  • خود هنر آن داد که دید آتش عیان  ** نه کپ دل علی النار الدخان 

  • O you whose evidence in the eyes of the Sage is really more stinking than the evidence of the physician,
  • ای دلیلت گنده‌تر پیش لبیب  ** در حقیقت از دلیل آن طبیب 

  • Since you have no evidence but this, O son, eat dung and inspect urine!
  • چون دلیلت نیست جز این ای پسر  ** گوه می‌خور در کمیزی می‌نگر 

  • O you whose evidence is like the staff in your hand (which) indicates that you suffer from blindness,
  • ای دلیل تو مثال آن عصا  ** در کفت دل علی عیب العمی 

  • (All this) noise and pompous talk and assumption of authority (only means), “I cannot see: (kindly) excuse me.”
  • غلغل و طاق و طرنب و گیر و دار  ** که نمی‌بینم مرا معذور دار 

  • How the Sayyid, the King of Tirmid, proclaimed that he would give robes of honour and horses and slave-boys and slave-girls and a large sum in gold to any one who would go on urgent business to Samarcand (and complete the journey) in three or four days; and how Dalqak, having heard the news of this proclamation in the country (where he then was), came post-haste to the king, saying, “I, at all events, cannot go.”
  • منادی کردن سید ملک ترمد کی هر کی در سه یا چهار روز به سمرقند رود به فلان مهم خلعت و اسپ و غلام و کنیزک و چندین زر دهم و شنیدن دلقک خبر این منادی در ده و آمدن به اولاقی نزد شاه کی من باری نتوانم رفتن 

  • The sagacious Dalqak was the buffoon (court-jester) of the Sayyid of Tirmid, who reigned in that place (city). 2510
  • سید ترمد که آنجا شاه بود  ** مسخره‌ی او دلقک آگاه بود