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  • To Bal‘am son of Bá‘úr the people of the world became subject, (for he was) like unto the Jesus of the time.
  • بلعم باعور را خلق جهان ** سغبه شد مانند عیسای زمان‌‌

  • They bowed (worshipfully) to none but him: his spell was (giving) health to the sick.
  • سجده ناوردند کس را دون او ** صحت رنجور بود افسون او

  • From pride and (conceit of) perfection he grappled with Moses: his plight became such as thou hast heard. 3300
  • پنجه زد با موسی از کبر و کمال ** آن چنان شد که شنیده ستی تو حال‌‌

  • Even so there have been in the world, manifest or hidden, a hundred thousand like Iblís and Bal‘am.
  • صد هزار ابلیس و بلعم در جهان ** همچنین بوده ست پیدا و نهان‌‌

  • God caused these twain to be notorious, that these twain might bear witness against the rest.
  • این دو را مشهور گردانید اله ** تا که باشد این دو بر باقی گواه‌‌

  • These two thieves He hanged on a high gallows (to be a warning to all); else there were many (other) thieves in (the pale of) His vengeance.
  • این دو دزد آویخت از دار بلند ** ور نه اندر قهر بس دزدان بدند

  • These twain He dragged by their forelocks to the city (for slaughter); (but) ’tis impossible to number (all) the victims of His wrath.
  • این دو را پرچم به سوی شهر برد ** کشتگان قهر را نتوان شمرد

  • You are a favourite (of God), but within your (due) bounds. (Fear) God, (fear) God, do not set foot beyond (those) bounds. 3305
  • نازنینی تو ولی در حد خویش ** الله الله پا منه از حد خویش‌‌

  • If you combat with one who is a greater favourite than yourself, ’twill bring you down to the lowest depth of the seventh earth.
  • گر زنی بر نازنین تر از خودت ** در تگ هفتم زمین زیر آردت‌‌

  • For what purpose is the tale of ‘Ád and Thamúd? That you may know that the prophets have disdain (for the wicked).
  • قصه‌‌ی عاد و ثمود از بهر چیست ** تا بدانی کانبیا را نازکی است‌‌

  • These signs—the (earth's) swallowing up (sinners), the hurling of stones (upon them), and the thunderbolts—were evidence of the might of the Rational Soul.
  • این نشان خسف و قذف و صاعقه ** شد بیان عز نفس ناطقه‌‌

  • Kill all animals for the sake of man, kill all mankind for the sake of Reason.
  • جمله حیوان را پی انسان بکش ** جمله انسان را بکش از بهر هش‌‌

  • What is Reason? The Universal Intelligence of the man (prophet or saint) endowed with reason. Partial reason is reason (too), but it is infirm. 3310
  • هش چه باشد عقل کل هوشمند ** هوش جزوی هش بود اما نژند

  • All the animals that are wild (unfriendly) to man are inferior to the human animal.
  • جمله حیوانات وحشی ز آدمی ** باشد از حیوان انسی در کمی‌‌

  • Their blood is free to mankind, since they are estranged from the august Reason.
  • خون آنها خلق را باشد سبیل ** ز انکه وحشی‌‌اند از عقل جلیل‌‌

  • The honour of the wild animals is fallen low (has come to be of no account) because they have grown hostile to man.
  • عزت وحشی بدین افتاد پست ** که مر انسان را مخالف آمده ست‌‌

  • What honour, then, will be thine, O marvel (of folly), since thou hast become (like) timorous wild asses?
  • پس چه عزت باشدت ای نادره ** چون شدی تو حمر مستنفرة

  • Because of his usefulness, the (domesticated) ass ought not to be killed; (but) when he turns wild, his blood becomes lawful. 3315
  • خر نشاید کشت از بهر صلاح ** چون شود وحشی شود خونش مباح‌‌

  • Although the ass had no knowledge to restrain him (from becoming wild), the Loving One is not excusing him at all.
  • گر چه خر را دانش زاجر نبود ** هیچ معذورش نمی‌‌دارد ودود

  • How, then, shall man be excused, O noble friend, when he has become wild (refractory and hostile) to that Word (the voice of Reason)?
  • پس چو وحشی شد از آن دم آدمی ** کی بود معذور ای یار سمی‌‌

  • Of necessity permission was given to shed the blood of the infidels, like (that of) a wild beast before the arrows and lances.
  • لاجرم کفار را شد خون مباح ** همچو وحشی پیش نشاب و رماح‌‌

  • All their wives and children are free spoil, since they are irrational and reprobate and base.
  • جفت و فرزندانشان جمله سبیل ** ز آنکه بی‌‌عقلند و مردود و ذلیل‌‌

  • Once more, a reason that flees from the Reason of reason (Universal Reason) is transported from rationality to (the grade of) the animals. 3320
  • باز عقلی کاو رمد از عقل عقل ** کرد از عقلی به حیوانات نقل‌‌

  • How Hárút and Márút relied upon their immaculateness and desired to mix with the people of this world and fell into temptation.
  • اعتماد کردن هاروت و ماروت بر عصمت خویش و آمیزی اهل دنیا خواستن و در فتنه افتادن‌‌

  • As (for example), because of their arrogance, the celebrated Hárút and Márút were smitten by the poisoned arrow (of Divine wrath).
  • همچو هاروت و چو ماروت شهیر ** از بطر خوردند زهر آلود تیر

  • They had confidence in their holiness, (but) what (use) is it for the buffalo to have confidence in the lion?
  • اعتمادی بودشان بر قدس خویش ** چیست بر شیر اعتماد گاومیش‌‌