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  • Had it been his desire to shed the blood of a Moslem, I am an infidel if I would have mentioned his name (with praise).
  • گر بدی خون مسلمان کام او ** کافرم گر بردمی من نام او

  • The highest heaven trembles at praise of the wicked, and by praise of him the devout man is moved to think evil. 240
  • می‌‌بلرزد عرش از مدح شقی ** بد گمان گردد ز مدحش متقی‌‌

  • He was a king and a very heedful king; he was elect and the elect (favourite) of God.
  • شاه بود و شاه بس آگاه بود ** خاص بود و خاصه‌‌ی الله بود

  • One who is slain by a king like this, he (the king) leads him to fortune and to the best (most honourable) estate.
  • آن کسی را کش چنین شاهی کشد ** سوی بخت و بهترین جاهی کشد

  • Unless he (the king) had seen advantage to him (the goldsmith) in doing violence to him, how should that absolute Mercy have sought to do violence?
  • گر ندیدی سود او در قهر او ** کی شدی آن لطف مطلق قهر جو

  • The child trembles at the barber's scalpel (but) the fond mother is happy at that moment.
  • بچه می‌‌لرزد از آن نیش حجام ** مادر مشفق در آن غم شاد کام‌‌

  • He takes half a life and gives a hundred lives (in exchange): he gives that which enters not into your imagination. 245
  • نیم جان بستاند و صد جان دهد ** آن چه در وهمت نیاید آن دهد

  • You are judging (his actions) from (the analogy of) yourself, but you have fallen far, far (away from the truth). Consider well!
  • تو قیاس از خویش می‌‌گیری و لیک ** دور دور افتاده‌‌ای بنگر تو نیک‌‌

  • The story of the greengrocer and the parrot and the parrot's spilling the oil in the shop.
  • حکایت بقال و طوطی و روغن ریختن طوطی در دکان‌‌

  • There was a greengrocer who had a parrot, a sweet-voiced green talking parrot.
  • بود بقالی و وی را طوطیی ** خوش نوایی سبز و گویا طوطیی‌‌

  • (Perched) on the bench, it would watch over the shop (in the owner's absence) and talk finely to all the traders.
  • بر دکان بودی نگهبان دکان ** نکته گفتی با همه سوداگران‌‌

  • In addressing human beings it would speak (like them); it was (also) skilled in the song of parrots.
  • در خطاب آدمی ناطق بدی ** در نوای طوطیان حاذق بدی‌‌

  • (Once) it sprang from the bench and flew away; it spilled the bottles of rose-oil. 250
  • جست از سوی دکان سویی گریخت ** شیشه‌‌های روغن گل را بریخت‌‌

  • Its master came from the direction of his house and seated himself on the bench at his ease as a merchant does.
  • از سوی خانه بیامد خواجه‌‌اش ** بر دکان بنشست فارغ خواجه‌‌وش‌‌

  • (Then) he saw the bench was full of oil and his clothes greasy; he smote the parrot on the head: it was made bald by the blow.
  • دید پر روغن دکان و جامه چرب ** بر سرش زد گشت طوطی کل ز ضرب‌‌

  • For some few days it refrained from speech; the greengrocer, in repentance, heaved deep sighs,
  • روزکی چندی سخن کوتاه کرد ** مرد بقال از ندامت آه کرد

  • Tearing his beard and saying, “Alas! the sun of my prosperity has gone under the clouds.
  • ریش بر می‌‌کند و می‌‌گفت ای دریغ ** کافتاب نعمتم شد زیر میغ‌‌

  • Would that my hand had been broken (powerless) at the moment when I struck (such a blow) on the head of that sweet-tongued one?” 255
  • دست من بشکسته بودی آن زمان ** که زدم من بر سر آن خوش زبان‌‌

  • He was giving presents to every dervish, that he might get back the speech of his bird.
  • هدیه‌‌ها می‌‌داد هر درویش را ** تا بیابد نطق مرغ خویش را

  • After three days and three nights, he was seated on the bench, distraught and sorrowful, like a man in despair,
  • بعد سه روز و سه شب حیران و زار ** بر دکان بنشسته بد نومید وار

  • Showing the bird every sort of hidden (unfamiliar) thing (in the hope) that maybe it would begin to speak.
  • می‌‌نمود آن مرغ را هر گون شگفت ** تا که باشد کاندر آید او بگفت‌‌

  • Meanwhile a bare-headed dervish, clad in a jawlaq (coarse woollen frock), passed by, with a head hairless as the outside of bowl and basin.
  • جولقیی سر برهنه می‌‌گذشت ** با سر بی‌‌مو چو پشت طاس و طشت‌‌

  • Thereupon the parrot cried to the dervish, as rational persons (might have done). 260
  • طوطی اندر گفت آمد در زمان ** بانگ بر درویش زد که هی فلان‌‌

  • How were you mixed up with the bald, O baldpate? Did you, then, spill oil from the bottle?”
  • از چه ای کل با کلان آمیختی ** تو مگر از شیشه روغن ریختی‌‌

  • The bystanders laughed at the parrot's inference, because it deemed the wearer of the frock to be like itself.
  • از قیاسش خنده آمد خلق را ** کو چو خود پنداشت صاحب دلق را

  • Do not measure the actions of holy men by (the analogy of) yourself, though shér (lion) and shír (milk) are similar in writing.
  • کار پاکان را قیاس از خود مگیر ** گر چه ماند در نبشتن شیر و شیر