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1002-1026

  • These causes are generation on generation, but it needs a very well illumined eye (to see all the links in their chain).”
  • این سببها نسل بر نسل است لیک ** دیده‏ای باید منور نیک نیک‏

  • The King, in conversation with him, arrived at this point: he either saw or did not see a sign.
  • شاه با او در سخن اینجا رسید ** یا بدید از وی نشانی یا ندید

  • If that searching King saw (such a sign), ’tis not strange; but we are not permitted to mention it.
  • گر بدید آن شاه جویا دور نیست ** لیک ما را ذکر آن دستور نیست‏

  • When that (other) slave came from the warm bath, that King and lofty personage called him to his presence, 1005
  • چون ز گرمابه بیامد آن غلام ** سوی خویشش خواند آن شاه و همام‏

  • (And) said, “Health (to you)! Lasting happiness be yours! You are very fine and elegant and good-looking.
  • گفت صحا لک نعیم دایم ** بس لطیفی و ظریف و خوب رو

  • Oh, alas! If there were not in you that which so-and-so says about you,
  • ای دریغا گر نبودی در تو آن ** که همی‏گوید برای تو فلان‏

  • Whoever beheld your face would become glad; the sight of you would be worth the empire of the world.”
  • شاد گشتی هر که رویت دیده‏یی ** دیدنت ملک جهان ارزیدیی‏

  • He said, “O King, utter some hint of what that miscreant said about me.”
  • گفت رمزی ز آن بگو ای پادشاه ** کز برای من بگفت آن دین تباه‏

  • The King said, “In the first place he described you as double-faced, saying that you are ostensibly a remedy (but) secretly a disease.” 1010
  • گفت اول وصف دو روییت کرد ** کاشکارا تو دوایی خفیه درد

  • When he heard from the King the malice of his companion, at once the sea of his anger surged up.
  • خبث یارش را چو از شه گوش کرد ** در زمان دریای خشمش جوش کرد

  • That slave foamed and reddened, so that the billows of his vituperation exceeded (all) bounds.
  • کف بر آورد آن غلام و سرخ گشت ** تا که موج هجو او از حد گذشت‏

  • He said, “From the first moment that he was associated with me, he was a great eater of dung, like a dog in (time of) famine.”
  • کاو ز اول دم که با من یار بود ** همچو سگ در قحط بس گه خوار بود

  • As he satirised him in succession (without intermission), like a bell, the King put his hand on his (the slave's) lips, saying, “Enough!”
  • چون دمادم کرد هجوش چون جرس ** دست بر لب زد شهنشاهش که بس‏

  • He said, “I know you from him by that (which you have spoken): in you the spirit is foul, and in your companion (only) the mouth. 1015
  • گفت دانستم ترا از وی بدان ** از تو جان گنده ست و از یارت دهان‏

  • Therefore do you sit far off, O foul-spirited one, that he may be the commander and you under his command.”
  • پس نشین ای گنده جان از دور تو ** تا امیر او باشد و مأمور تو

  • It is (said) in the Hadíth (Traditions of the Prophet): “Know, sire, that glorification (of God) from hypocrisy is like the verdure on a midden.”
  • در حدیث آمد که تسبیح از ریا ** همچو سبزه‏ی گولخن دان ای کیا

  • Know, then, that a fair and goodly form with bad qualities (within) is not worth a farthing;
  • پس بدان که صورت خوب و نکو ** با خصال بد نیرزد یک تسو

  • And though the form be despicable and unpleasing, (yet) when his (that person's) disposition is good, die at his feet!
  • ور بود صورت حقیر و ناپذیر ** چون بود خلقش نکو در پاش میر

  • Know that the outward form passes away, (but) the world of reality remains for ever. 1020
  • صورت ظاهر فنا گردد بدان ** عالم معنی بماند جاودان‏

  • How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the shape of the jug; go, seek the water.
  • چند بازی عشق با نقش سبو ** بگذر از نقش سبو رو آب جو

  • You have seen its (outward) form, you are unaware of the reality; pick out from the shell a pearl, if you are wise.
  • صورتش دیدی ز معنی غافلی ** از صدف دری گزین گر عاقلی‏

  • These shells of bodies in the world, though they all are living by (grace of) the Sea of Soul—
  • این صدفهای قوالب در جهان ** گر چه جمله زنده‏اند از بحر جان‏

  • Yet there is not a pearl in every shell: open your eyes and look into the heart of each one,
  • لیک اندر هر صدف نبود گهر ** چشم بگشا در دل هر یک نگر

  • And pick out what that one has and what this, because that costly pearl is seldom found. 1025
  • کان چه دارد وین چه دارد می‏گزین ** ز انکه کمیاب است آن در ثمین‏

  • If you go (turn your attention) to the form, by external appearance a mountain is a hundred times as much as a ruby in bigness;
  • گر به صورت می‏روی کوهی به شکل ** در بزرگی هست صد چندان که لعل‏