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  • That he may know the taste of his mother's milk, and that his head may not sink to (desire and accept the milk of) a bad nurse.
  • تا ببیند طعم شیر مادرش ** تا فرو ناید بدایه‏ی بد سرش‏

  • Explaining the moral of the story of the person seeking (the lost) camel.
  • شرح فایده‏ی حکایت آن شخص شتر جوینده‏

  • You have lost a camel, O trusty (friend), and every one is giving you a clue to the camel.
  • اشتری گم کرده‏ای ای معتمد ** هر کسی ز اشتر نشانت می‏دهد

  • You know not where the camel is, but you know that these clues are wrong.
  • تو نمی‏دانی که آن اشتر کجاست ** لیک دانی کاین نشانیها خطاست‏

  • And he that has not lost a camel—he (too) in contention seeks a camel, just like him who has (really) lost it, 2975
  • و انکه اشتر گم نکرد او از مری ** همچو آن گم کرده جوید اشتری‏

  • Saying, “Yes; I too have lost a camel: I have brought a reward for any one who may find it.”
  • که بلی من هم شتر گم کرده‏ام ** هر که یابد اجرتش آورده‏ام‏

  • (He says this) that he may take a partner's share with you in the camel: he plays this trick because of coveting the camel.
  • تا در اشتر با تو انبازی کند ** بهر طمع اشتر این بازی کند

  • If you say to any one, “That clue was false,” he (the pretender), in imitation of you, says the same.
  • هر چه را گویی خطا بود آن نشان ** او به تقلید تو می‏گوید همان‏

  • He does not know wrong clues from right, but your words are a cue to that imitator.
  • او نشان کژ بنشناسد ز راست ** لیک گفتت آن مقلد را عصاست‏

  • When they mention right and likely clues, then comes to you the certainty in which there is no doubt. 2980
  • چون نشان راست گویند و شبیه ** پس یقین گردد ترا لا ریب فیه‏

  • That (clue) becomes balm to your sick soul; it becomes (brings) colour to your face and health and strength to you.
  • آن شفای جان رنجورت شود ** رنگ روی و صحت و زورت شود

  • Your eye becomes bright, your foot nimble; your body becomes (the vital) soul, and your (vital) soul (the rational) spirit.
  • چشم تو روشن شود پایت دوان ** جسم تو جان گردد و جانت روان‏

  • Then you will say, “O trusted (friend), you have spoken the truth: these clues are a clear deliverance (communication and message).
  • پس بگویی راست گفتی ای امین ** این نشانیها بلاغ آمد مبین‏

  • Therein are (manifest) signs, sure informations, (distinct) evidences: this is a title-deed and an ordainment of salvation.”
  • فیه آیات ثقات بینات ** این براتی باشد و قدر نجات‏

  • When he has given this clue, you will say, “Go before (me)! It is time for (setting out on) the enterprise: be thou the leader! 2985
  • این نشان چون داد گویی پیش رو ** وقت آهنگ است پیش آهنگ شو

  • I will follow thee, O truth-teller: thou hast got scent of my camel: show (me) where (it is).”
  • پی روی تو کنم ای راست گو ** بوی بردی ز اشترم بنما که کو

  • (But) to that person who is not the owner of a camel, and who is (engaged) in this quest of the camel for contention's sake—
  • پیش آن کس که نه صاحب اشتری ست ** کاو در این جست شتر بهر مری ست‏

  • His certainty is not increased by this right clue, save through reflexion from the true camel-seeker.
  • زین نشان راست نفزودش یقین ** جز ز عکس ناقه جوی راستین‏

  • From his (the latter's) earnestness and ardour he (the imitator) gets a scent (inkling) that these wild outcries of his are not (mere) babble.
  • بوی برد از جد و گرمیهای او ** که گزافه نیست این هیهای او

  • He (the imitator) had no just claim to this camel, but he too has lost a camel; yes, (he has). 2990
  • اندر این اشتر نبودش حق ولی ** اشتری گم کرده است او هم بلی‏

  • Desire for another's camel has become a veil to him, (so that) he has forgotten what he (himself) has lost.
  • طمع ناقه‏ی غیر رو پوشش شده ** آنچ ازو گم شد فراموشش شده‏

  • Wherever he (the owner) runs, this one (the imitator) runs: from cupidity, he becomes a partner in the owner's pain.
  • هر کجا او می‏دود این می‏دود ** از طمع هم درد صاحب می‏شود

  • When a liar sets out (to journey) with a truthful man, his falsehood turns to truth of a sudden.
  • کاذبی یا صادقی چون شد روان ** آن دروغش راستی شد ناگهان‏

  • In the desert whither that camel had hastened, the other one (the imitator) also found his own camel.
  • اندر آن صحرا که آن اشتر شتافت ** اشتر خود نیز آن دیگر بیافت‏

  • As soon as he saw it, he remembered his own, and ceased to covet the camel of that friend and kinsman. 2995
  • چون بدیدش یاد آورد آن خویش ** بی‏طمع شد ز اشتر آن یار و خویش‏

  • That imitator became a true searcher when he saw his camel browsing there.
  • آن مقلد شد محقق چون بدید ** اشتر خود را که آن جا می‏چرید