We accept and obey: (the right of) control belongs to him: what he has commanded must be executed by us. // We are like Ishmael: we will not recoil from our Abraham though he is offering us in sacrifice."
سمع و طاعه میکنیم او راست دست ** آنچه او فرمود بر ما نافذست // ما چو اسماعیل ز ابراهیم خود ** سر نپیچیم ارچه قربان میکند
The cadi said, “Let each one (of you), using his intelligence, give some account of his laziness,
گفت قاضی هر یکی با عاقلیش ** تا بگوید قصه‌ای از کاهلیش
That I may perceive the laziness of each and know beyond any doubt (how stands) the case of every one (of you).”4885
تا ببینم کاهلی هر یکی ** تا بدانم حال هر یک بی‌شکی
The gnostics are the laziest folk in the two worlds, because they get their harvest without ploughing.
عارفان از دو جهان کاهل‌ترند ** زانک بی شد یار خرمن می‌برند
They have made laziness their prop (and rely upon it) since God is working for them.
کاهلی را کرده‌اند ایشان سند ** کار ایشان را چو یزدان میکند
The vulgar do not see God's working and (therefore) never rest from toil at morn or eve.
کار یزدان را نمی‌بینند عام ** می‌نیاسایند از کد صبح و شام
“Come,” (said the cadi), “define (your) laziness, so that from the disclosure of the secret I may learn its (essential) definition (and nature).”
هین ز حد کاهلی گویید باز ** تا بدانم حد آن از کشف راز
’Tis unquestionable that every tongue is a curtain over the heart: when the curtain is moved, the mysteries (hidden behind it) reach us.4890
بی‌گمان که هر زبان پرده‌ی دلست ** چون بجنبد پرده سرها واصلست
A little curtain like a slice of roast-meat conceals the forms of a hundred suns.
پرده‌ی کوچک چو یک شرحه کباب ** می‌بپوشد صورت صد آفتاب
Even if the oral explanation is false, yet the scent (the impression produced by the speaker) makes one acquainted with his veracity or falsehood.
گر بیان نطق کاذب نیز هست ** لیک بوی از صدق و کذبش مخبرست