- The rushing and tossing of the straws in the water is produced by the water when it is agitated. 3340
- حملهها و رقص خاشاک اندر آب ** هم ز آب آمد به وقت اضطراب
- When it (the sea of Reality) wishes to make them (the straws) cease from struggling, it casts the straws toward the shore.
- چون که ساکن خواهدش کرد از مرا ** سوی ساحل افکند خاشاک را
- When it draws them from the shore into the surge it does with them that which fire does with grass.
- چون کشد از ساحلش در موج گاه ** آن کند با او که آتش با گیاه
- This topic is endless. Speed back, O youth, to (the story of) Hárút and Márút.
- این حدیث آخر ندارد باز ران ** جانب هاروت و ماروت ای جوان
- The rest of the story of Hárút and Márút, and how an exemplary punishment was inflicted on them, even in this world, in the pit of Babylon.
- باقی قصهی هاروت و ماروت و نکال و عقوبت ایشان هم در دنیا به چاه بابل
- Inasmuch as the sin and wickedness of the people of the world was becoming clearly visible to them both at that time,
- چون گناه و فسق خلقان جهان ** میشدی بر هر دو روشن آن زمان
- They began to gnaw their hands in wrath, but had no eyes for their own fault. 3345
- دستخاییدن گرفتندی ز خشم ** لیک عیب خود ندیدندی به چشم
- The ugly man saw himself in the mirror: he turned his face away from that (spectacle) and was enraged.
- خویش در آیینه دید آن زشت مرد ** رو بگردانید از آن و خشم کرد
- When the self-conceited person has seen any one commit a sin, there appears in him a fire (derived) from Hell.
- خویش بین چون از کسی جرمی بدید ** آتشی در وی ز دوزخ شد پدید
- He calls that (hellish) pride defence of the Religion: he regards not the infidel soul in himself.
- حمیت دین خواند او آن کبر را ** ننگرد در خویش نفس گبر را
- Defence of the Religion has a different character, for from that (religious) fire a (whole) world is green (verdant and flourishing).
- حمیت دین را نشانی دیگر است ** که از آن آتش جهانی اخضر است
- God said to them, "If ye are enlightened, (nevertheless) look not carelessly (contemptuously) upon the doers of black deeds. 3350
- گفت حقشان گر شما روشانگرید ** در سیه کاران مغفل منگرید
- Render thanks, O Host (of Heaven) and Servants (of God)! Ye are freed from lust and sexual intercourse.
- شکر گویید ای سپاه و چاکران ** رستهاید از شهوت و از چاک ران
- If I impose that kind of nature on you, Heaven will accept you no more.
- گر از آن معنی نهم من بر شما ** مر شما را بیش نپذیرد سما
- The preservation (from sin) which ye have in your bodies is from the reflexion of My preservation and care (of you).
- عصمتی که مر شما را در تن است ** آن ز عکس عصمت و حفظ من است
- Oh, beware! Regard that as (coming) from Me, not from yourselves, lest the accursed Devil prevail against you.”
- آن ز من بینید نز خود هین و هین ** تا نچربد بر شما دیو لعین
- As (for example) the writer of the Revelation given to the Prophet deemed the Wisdom and the Original Light (to be residing) in himself. 3355
- آن چنان که کاتب وحی رسول ** دید حکمت در خود و نور اصول
- He was reckoning himself a fellow-songster of the Birds of God, (whereas) that (which proceeded from him) was (only) a whistle resembling an echo.
- خویش را هم صوت مرغان خدا ** میشمرد آن بد صفیری چون صدا
- If you become an exponent (imitator) of the song of birds, how will you become acquainted with the (real) meaning of the bird?
- لحن مرغان را اگر واصف شوی ** بر مراد مرغ کی واقف شوی
- If you learn the note of a nightingale, how will you know what (feelings) it has towards a rose?
- گر بیاموزی صفیر بلبلی ** تو چه دانی کاو چه دارد با گلی
- Or if you do know, ’twill only be from surmise, like the conjectures formed by deaf people from those who move their lips.
- ور بدانی باشد آن هم از گمان ** چون ز لب جنبان گمانهای کران
- How the deaf man went to visit his sick neighbour.
- به عیادت رفتن کر بر همسایهی رنجور خویش
- One possessed of much wealth said to a deaf man, “A neighbour of thine is fallen ill.” 3360
- آن کری را گفت افزون مایهای ** که ترا رنجور شد همسایهای
- The deaf man said to himself, “Being hard of hearing, what shall I understand of the words spoken by that youth?—
- گفت با خود کر که با گوش گران ** من چه دریابم ز گفت آن جوان
- Especially (as) he is ill and his voice is weak; but I must go thither, there's no escape.
- خاصه رنجور و ضعیف آواز شد ** لیک باید رفت آن جا نیست بد
- When I see his lips moving, I will form a conjecture as to that (movement) from myself.
- چون ببینم کان لبش جنبان شود ** من قیاسی گیرم آن را هم ز خود
- When I say, ‘How are you, O my suffering (friend)?’ he will reply, ‘I am fine’ or ‘I am pretty well.’
- چون بگویم چونی ای محنت کشم ** او بخواهد گفت نیکم یا خوشم