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  • 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

  • Though he make a hundred shifts (to defend himself) with his horn, the fierce lion will tear him to pieces limb by limb.
  • گر چه او با شاخ صد چاره کند ** شاخ شاخش شیر نر پاره کند

  • (Even) if he become as full of horns (prickles) as a hedgehog, the buffalo will inevitably be killed by the lion.
  • گر شود پر شاخ همچون خار پشت ** شیر خواهد گاو را ناچار کشت‌‌

  • (But) though the Sarsar wind uproots many trees, it bestows kindness on the wet grass. 3325
  • گر چه صرصر بس درختان می‌‌کند ** با گیاه تر وی احسان می‌‌کند

  • That violent wind had pity on the weakness of the grass: do not thou, O heart, brag vainly of thy strength.
  • بر ضعیفی گیاه آن باد تند ** رحم کرد ای دل تو از قوت ملند

  • How should the axe be afraid of the thickness of the branches? It cuts them to pieces.
  • تیشه را ز انبوهی شاخ درخت ** کی هراس آید ببرد لخت لخت‌‌

  • But it does not beat itself against a leaf, it does not beat its edge except against an edge (something hard and solid like itself).
  • لیک بر برگی نکوبد خویش را ** جز که بر نیشی نکوبد نیش را

  • What does the flame care for the great quantity of firewood? How should the butcher flee in terror from the flock of sheep?
  • شعله را ز انبوهی هیزم چه غم ** کی رمد قصاب از خیل غنم‌‌

  • What is form in the presence of (in comparison with) reality? Very feeble. ’Tis the reality of the sky that keeps it upside down (like an inverted cup). 3330
  • پیش معنی چیست صورت بس زبون ** چرخ را معنیش می‌‌دارد نگون‌‌

  • Judge by the analogy of the celestial wheel: from whom does its motion proceed? From directive Reason.
  • تو قیاس از چرخ دولابی بگیر ** گردشش از کیست از عقل مشیر

  • The motion of this shield-like body is (derived) from the veiled spirit, O son.
  • گردش این قالب همچون سپر ** هست از روح مستر ای پسر

  • The motion of this wind is from its reality, like the wheel that is captive to the water of the stream.
  • گردش این باد از معنی اوست ** همچو چرخی کان اسیر آب جوست‌‌

  • The ebb and flow and incoming and outgoing of this breath —from whom does it proceed but from the spirit that is filled with desire?
  • جر و مد و دخل و خرج این نفس ** از که باشد جز ز جان پر هوس‌‌

  • Now it (the spirit) makes it (the breath) jím, now há and dál; now it makes it peace, now strife. 3335
  • گاه جیمش می‌‌کند گه حا و دال ** گاه صلحش می‌‌کند گاهی جدال‌‌