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1084-1108

  • Look! here is this sea and this ship, and I am the pilot and skilled (in navigation) and judicious.”
  • اینک این دریا و این کشتی و من ** مرد کشتیبان و اهل و رایزن‌‌

  • He was propelling the raft on the “sea”: that (small) quantity appeared to him illimitable. 1085
  • بر سر دریا همی‌‌راند او عمد ** می‌‌نمودش آن قدر بیرون ز حد

  • That urine was boundless in relation to him: where was the vision that should see it truly?
  • بود بی‌‌حد آن چمین نسبت بدو ** آن نظر که بیند آن را راست کو

  • His world extends (just) as far as his sight reaches; his eye is so big, his “sea” is big in the same proportion.
  • عالمش چندان بود کش بینش است ** چشم چندین بحر هم چندینش است‌‌

  • So with the false interpreter (of the Qur’án): like the fly, his imagination is (foul as) ass's urine and his conception (worthless as) a straw.
  • صاحب تاویل باطل چون مگس ** وهم او بول خر و تصویر خس‌‌

  • If the fly leave off interpreting by (following his own) opinion, Fortune will turn that fly into a humáy.
  • گر مگس تاویل بگذارد به رای ** آن مگس را بخت گرداند همای‌‌

  • One who possesses this (Divine) indication (of the true meaning) is not a fly: his spirit is not analogous to his (outward) form. 1090
  • آن مگس نبود کش این عبرت بود ** روح او نی در خور صورت بود

  • How the lion roared wrathfully because the hare was late in coming.
  • تولیدن شیر از دیر آمدن خرگوش‌‌

  • As (for example) the hare who struck against the lion: how was his spirit analogous to his stature?
  • همچو آن خرگوش کاو بر شیر زد ** روح او کی بود اندر خورد قد

  • The lion from fury and rage was saying, “By means of my ear the enemy has bound up my eye.
  • شیر می‌‌گفت از سر تیزی و خشم ** کز ره گوشم عدو بر بست چشم‌‌

  • The tricks of the necessitarians have bound me (in captivity); their wooden sword has wounded my body.
  • مکرهای جبریانم بسته کرد ** تیغ چوبینشان تنم را خسته کرد

  • After this I will not hearken to their palaver: all that is (only meant to deceive, like) the cry of demons and ghouls.
  • زین سپس من نشنوم آن دمدمه ** بانگ دیوان است و غولان آن همه‌‌

  • O my heart, tear them to pieces, do not lag; rend their skins, for they have naught but skin.” 1095
  • بردران ای دل تو ایشان را مه‌‌ایست ** پوستشان بر کن کشان جز پوست نیست‌‌

  • What is skin? Specious words, like ripples on water which have no continuance.
  • پوست چه بود گفتهای رنگ رنگ ** چون زره بر آب کش نبود درنگ‌‌

  • Know that these words are as the skin (rind), and the meaning is (as) the kernel; these words are as the form, and the meaning is like the spirit.
  • این سخن چون پوست و معنی مغز دان ** این سخن چون نقش و معنی همچو جان‌‌

  • The skin hides the defect of the bad kernel; it (also) hides jealously the secrets of the good kernel.
  • پوست باشد مغز بد را عیب پوش ** مغز نیکو را ز غیرت غیب پوش‌‌

  • When the pen is of wind and the scroll of water, whatever you write perishes speedily;
  • چون قلم از باد بد دفتر ز آب ** هر چه بنویسی فنا گردد شتاب‌‌

  • It is written on water: if you seek constancy from it, you will return biting your hands (in disappointment). 1100
  • نقش آب است ار وفا جویی از آن ** باز گردی دستهای خود گزان‌‌

  • The wind in men is vanity and desire; when you have abandoned vanity, (then) is (the time for) the message from Him (God).
  • باد در مردم هوا و آرزوست ** چون هوا بگذاشتی پیغام هوست‌‌

  • Sweet are the messages of the Maker, for it (that message) from head to foot (from first to last) is enduring.
  • خوش بود پیغامهای کردگار ** کاو ز سر تا پای باشد پایدار

  • The khutbas for kings change (and pass), and their empire; (all will pass) except the empire and khutbas (insignia) of the prophets,
  • خطبه‌‌ی شاهان بگردد و آن کیا ** جز کیا و خطبه‌‌های انبیا

  • Because the pomp of kings is from (earthly) vanity, (while) the glorious privilege of the prophets is from (Divine) Majesty.
  • ز آن که بوش پادشاهان از هواست ** بار نامه‌‌ی انبیا از کبریاست‌‌

  • The names of kings are removed from the dirhems, (but) the name of Ahmad (Mohammed) is stamped on them for ever. 1105
  • از درمها نام شاهان بر کنند ** نام احمد تا ابد بر می‌‌زنند

  • The name of Ahmad is the name of all the prophets: when the hundred comes (is counted), ninety is with us as well.
  • نام احمد نام جمله انبیاست ** چون که صد آمد نود هم پیش ماست‌‌

  • Further setting forth the stratagem of the hare.
  • هم در بیان مکر خرگوش‌‌

  • The hare made much delay in going; he rehearsed to himself the tricks (which he was about to play).
  • در شدن خرگوش بس تاخیر کرد ** مکر را با خویشتن تقریر کرد

  • After long delay he came on (took) the road, that he might say one or two secrets into the ear of the lion.
  • در ره آمد بعد تاخیر دراز ** تا به گوش شیر گوید یک دو راز