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115-139

  • Otherwise, (since) I am a better seer of the heavens (than thou), how is it that I do not see the pure crescent? 115
  • ور نه من بیناترم افلاک را ** چون نمی‏بینم هلال پاک را

  • Wet thy hand,” said he, “and rub it on thine eyebrow, and then look up towards the new moon.”
  • گفت تر کن دست و بر ابرو بمال ** آن گهان تو بر نگر سوی هلال‏

  • When he wetted his eyebrow, he did not see the moon. “O King,” he said, “there is no moon; it has disappeared.”
  • چون که او تر کرد ابرو مه ندید ** گفت ای شه نیست مه شد ناپدید

  • “Yes,” said ‘Umar, “the hair of thine eyebrow had become (curved) like a bow and shot at thee an arrow of opinion.”
  • گفت آری موی ابرو شد کمان ** سوی تو افکند تیری از گمان‏

  • When one hair became crooked, it waylaid him (hindered him from seeing truly), so that, making a false claim, he boasted to have seen the moon.
  • چون یکی مو کج شد او را راه زد ** تا به دعوی لاف دید ماه زد

  • Inasmuch as a crooked hair veils the sky, how will it be when all your members are crooked? 120
  • موی کج چون پرده‏ی گردون بود ** چون همه اجزات کج شد چون بود

  • Straighten your members by (the help of) the straight (the righteous). O you who (would) go straight, turn not your head aside from that threshold (where the righteous dwell).
  • راست کن اجزات را از راستان ** سر مکش ای راست رو ز آن آستان‏

  • Balance makes balance correct; balance also makes balance defective.
  • هم ترازو را ترازو راست کرد ** هم ترازو را ترازو کاست کرد

  • Whoever weighs the same (adopts the same standard) as the unrighteous falls into deficiency, and his understanding becomes dazed.
  • هر که با ناراستان هم سنگ شد ** در کمی افتاد و عقلش دنگ شد

  • Go, be hard on the infidels, sprinkle dust on (renounce) fondness for the strangers.
  • رو أشداء علی الکفار باش ** خاک بر دل داری اغیار پاش‏

  • Be as a sword upon the heads of the strangers: come, do not play foxy tricks, be a lion, 125
  • بر سر اغیار چون شمشیر باش ** هین مکن روباه بازی شیر باش‏

  • In order that the friends (of God), moved by (righteous) jealousy, may not break with you, because those thorns (the wicked) are the enemies of this rose (the friend of God).
  • تا ز غیرت از تو یاران نگسلند ** ز آنکه آن خاران عدوی این گلند

  • Set fire to the wolves as (to) rue-seed, because those wolves are the enemies of Joseph.
  • آتش اندر زن به گرگان چون سپند ** ز آن که آن گرگان عدوی یوسفند

  • Iblís calls you “father's soul” (darling son)—beware (of him)! The accursed Devil (does that) in order that he may beguile you with (vain) words.
  • جان بابا گویدت ابلیس هین ** تا به دم بفریبدت دیو لعین‏

  • He practised the like imposture on your father: this black-faced one checkmated an Adam.
  • این چنین تلبیس با بابات کرد ** آدمی را این سیه رخ مات کرد

  • This crow is busy on the chessboard; look not you upon his game with an eye that is half-asleep, 130
  • بر سر شطرنج چست است این غراب ** تو مبین بازی به چشم نیم خواب‏

  • Because he knows many formidable moves which will stick in your throat like a straw.
  • ز آن که فرزین بندها داند بسی ** که بگیرد در گلویت چون خسی‏

  • His straw will stay in your throat for years. What is that straw? Love of rank and wealth.
  • در گلو ماند خس او سالها ** چیست آن خس مهر جاه و مالها

  • Wealth is the straw, since in your throat, O infirm one, it is an obstacle (barrier) to the Water of Life.
  • مال خس باشد چو هست ای بی‏ثبات ** در گلویت مانع آب حیات‏

  • If an artful enemy carry off your wealth, a robber will have carried off a robber.
  • گر برد مالت عدوی پر فنی ** ره زنی را برده باشد ره زنی‏

  • How a snake-catcher stole a snake from another snake-catcher.
  • دزدیدن مارگیر ماری را از مارگیری دیگر

  • A petty thief carried off a snake from a snake-catcher and in his folly was accounting it a prize. 135
  • دزدکی از مارگیری مار برد ** ز ابلهی آن را غنیمت می‏شمرد

  • The snake-catcher escaped from the snake's bite; the man who had robbed him was miserably killed by the snake.
  • وارهید آن مارگیر از زخم مار ** مار کشت آن دزد او را زار زار

  • The snake-catcher saw him (dead); then he recognised him and said, “My snake has emptied him of life.
  • مارگیرش دید پس بشناختش ** گفت از جان مار من پرداختش‏

  • My soul was desiring of Him (God) in prayer that I might find him and take the snake from him.
  • در دعا می‏خواستی جانم از او ** کش بیابم مار بستانم از او

  • Thanks to God that that prayer was rejected: I thought ’twas loss, but it has turned out to be gain.”
  • شکر حق را کان دعا مردود شد ** من زیان پنداشتم آن سود شد