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  • The Shaykh rode off amongst the children, (but) the young man shouted to him once more,
  • شیخ راند اندر میان کودکان ** بانگ زد بار دگر او را جوان‏

  • “Come, prithee declare the exposition of this. Thou hast said that these women are of three kinds: pick (them) out.” 2410
  • که بیا آخر بگو تفسیر این ** این زنان سه نوع گفتی بر گزین‏

  • He rode towards him and said to him, “The virgin of your choice will be wholly yours, and you will gain freedom from sorrow;
  • راند سوی او و گفتش بکر خاص ** کل ترا باشد ز غم یابی خلاص‏

  • And she that is half yours is the (childless) widow; and she that is nothing (to you) is the married woman with a child:
  • و انکه نیمی آن تو بیوه بود ** و انکه هیچست آن عیال با ولد

  • When she has a child by her first husband, her love and whole heart will go to that quarter.
  • چون ز شوی اولش کودک بود ** مهر و کل خاطرش آن سو رود

  • (Now) get away, lest my horse launch a kick, and the hoof of my restive horse land upon you.”
  • دور شو تا اسب نندازد لگد ** سم اسب توسنم بر تو رسد

  • The Shaykh gave a loud cry of jubilation and rode back: he again called the children to him. 2415
  • های و هویی کرد شیخ و باز راند ** کودکان را باز سوی خویش خواند

  • That inquirer shouted to him once more, “Come (hither), I have one question left, O sovereign king.”
  • باز بانگش کرد آن سایل بیا ** یک سؤالم ماند ای شاه کیا

  • He rode back in this direction. “Say what it is,” he cried, “as quick as you can, for yonder child has enraptured my heart.”
  • باز راند این سو بگو زودتر چه بود ** که ز میدان آن بچه گویم ربود

  • Said the other, “O king, with such intelligence and erudition (as thou hast), what dissimulation is this? What acting is this? Oh, ’tis a marvel!
  • گفت ای شه با چنین عقل و ادب ** این چه شیداست این چه فعل است ای عجب‏

  • Thou transcendest the Universal Intellect in (thy power of) elucidation. Thou art a sun: how art thou hid in madness?”
  • تو ورای عقل کلی در بیان ** آفتابی در جنون چونی نهان‏

  • He replied, “These rascals are proposing to make me Cadi in this their city. 2420
  • گفت این اوباش رایی می‏زنند ** تا در این شهر خودم قاضی کنند

  • I raised objections, (but) they said to me, ‘Nay, there is none so learned and accomplished as thou.
  • دفع می‏گفتم مرا گفتند نی ** نیست چون تو عالمی صاحب فنی‏

  • Whilst thou art in existence, it is unlawful and wicked that any one inferior to thee should cite Prophetic Traditions in the office of Cadi.
  • با وجود تو حرام است و خبیث ** که کم از تو در قضا گوید حدیث‏

  • Permission is not (given) in the Law, that we should appoint one less than thee as (our) prince and leader.’
  • در شریعت نیست دستوری که ما ** کمتر از تو شه کنیم و پیشوا

  • By this necessity I was made distraught and mad (in appearance), but inwardly I am just the same as I was.
  • زین ضرورت گیج و دیوانه شدم ** لیک در باطن همانم که بدم‏

  • My intelligence is the (hidden) treasure, and I am the ruin (which covers it); if I display the treasure, (then) I am mad (indeed). 2425
  • عقل من گنج است و من ویرانه‏ام ** گنج اگر پیدا کنم دیوانه‏ام‏

  • The (real) madman is he that has not gone mad, he that has seen this night patrol and has not gone home.
  • اوست دیوانه که دیوانه نشد ** این عسس را دید و در خانه نشد

  • My knowledge is substantial, not accidental; and this precious (thing) is not for (the purpose of gaining) every (worldly) interest.
  • دانش من جوهر آمد نه عرض ** این بهایی نیست بهر هر غرض‏

  • I am a mine of candy, I am a plantation of sugar-canes: it is growing from me, and at the same time I am eating (of it).
  • کان قندم نیستان شکرم ** هم ز من می‏روید و من می‏خورم‏

  • Knowledge is conventional and acquired (not real), when he (its owner) laments because the hearer is averse to (hearing) it.
  • علم تقلیدی و تعلیمی است آن ** کز نفورش مستمع دارد فغان‏

  • Since it is (learned) as a bait (for popularity), not for the sake of (spiritual) enlightenment, he (the seeker of religious knowledge) is just as (bad) as the seeker of vile worldly knowledge; 2430
  • چون پی دانه نه بهر روشنی است ** همچو طالب علم دنیای دنی است‏

  • (For) he is seeking knowledge on account of the vulgar and the noble, not in order that he may win release from this world.
  • طالب علم است بهر عام و خاص ** نی که تا یابد از این عالم خلاص‏

  • Like a mouse, he has burrowed in every direction, since the light drove him (back) from the door (the entrance to the hole) and said, ‘Away!’
  • همچو موشی هر طرف سوراخ کرد ** چون که نورش راند از در گشت سرد

  • Inasmuch as he had no way (of getting out) to the open country and the light, he continued to make (such) an exertion even in that darkness.
  • چون که سوی دشت و نورش ره نبود ** هم در آن ظلمات جهدی می‏نمود