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2745-2754

  • (For example) the refusal of the Elephant to march against the House (of Allah) notwithstanding the driver's efforts and cries of “Come on!” 2745
  • امتناع پیل از سیران ببیت  ** با جد آن پیلبان و بانگ هیت 
  • In spite of all blows the Elephant's feet would not move, either much or little, towards the Ka‘ba.
  • جانب کعبه نرفتی پای پیل  ** با همه لت نه کثیر و نه قلیل 
  • You would have said that its legs were paralysed or that its impetuous spirit was dead.
  • گفتیی خود خشک شد پاهای او  ** یا بمرد آن جان صول‌افزای او 
  • (But) whenever they turned its head towards Yemen, the fierce Elephant would begin to stride (forward) with the speed of a hundred horses.
  • چونک کردندی سرش سوی یمن  ** پیل نر صد اسپه گشتی گام‌زن 
  • (Since) the Elephant's perception was aware of the blow (coming) from the Unseen, how (much more) must the perception of the saint (endowed) with (the Divine) afflatus be (aware)!
  • حس پیل از زخم غیب آگاه بود  ** چون بود حس ولی با ورود 
  • Is it not (the case) that the prophet Jacob, that man of holy nature, (said) for Joseph's sake to all his (Joseph's) brethren— 2750
  • نه که یعقوب نبی آن پاک‌خو  ** بهر یوسف با همه اخوان او 
  • When the brothers begged their father to give him to them, that they might take him to the country for a while,
  • از پدر چون خواستندش دادران  ** تا برندش سوی صحرا یک زمان 
  • (And) they all said to him, “Do not be afraid of harm (befalling him): give him one or two days' time, O father;
  • جمله گفتندش میندیش از ضرر  ** یک دو روزش مهلتی ده ای پدر 
  • For why wilt not thou entrust thy Joseph to us in going about and travelling (for pleasure),
  • که چرا ما را نمی داری امین ** یوسف خود را به سیران و ظعین
  • That we may play together in the meadows? In (making) this request we are trustworthy and beneficent”—
  • تا به هم در مرجها بازی کنیم  ** ما درین دعوت امین و محسنیم