- 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
- (Only) at that moment did he become a seeker of the camel: he was never (truly) seeking it till he saw it in the desert.
- او طلب کار شتر آن لحظه گشت ** مینجستش تا ندید او را به دشت
- After that, he began to go alone: he opened his eyes (and went) towards his own camel.
- بعد از آن تنها روی آغاز کرد ** چشم سوی ناقهی خود باز کرد
- The sincere one said, “You have left me, (although) till now you were paying regard to me.”
- گفت آن صادق مرا بگذاشتی ** تا به اکنون پاس من میداشتی
- He replied, “Hitherto I have been an idle scoffer and, from cupidity, have been (engaged) in flattering (thee); 3000
- گفت تا اکنون فسوسی بودهام ** وز طمع در چاپلوسی بودهام
- (But) now, when corporeally I have become parted from thee in the search, I have become sympathetic with thee (in spirit).
- این زمان هم درد تو گشتم که من ** در طلب از تو جدا گشتم به تن
- I was stealing the camel's description from thee; (but when) my spirit saw its own camel, it had its eye filled (with seeing).
- از تو میدزدیدمی وصف شتر ** جان من دید آن خود شد چشم پر
- Till I found it, I was not seeking it; now the copper is overcome, the gold overpowers it.
- تا نیابیدم نبودم طالبش ** مس کنون مغلوب شد زر غالبش