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3080-3104

  • How should a morsel digest without the sight of Him, without the view of His roses and rose-garden? 3080
  • چون گوارد لقمه بی‏دیدار او ** بی‏تماشای گل و گلزار او

  • Save in hope of God, who but an ox or ass would for one moment partake of this food and drink?
  • جز بر امید خدا زین آب خور ** کی خورد یک لحظه الا گاو و خر

  • (Who but) he that was like the cattle, nay, more lost?—though (indeed) that stinkard is full of cunning.
  • آن که کالانعام بد بل هم اضل ** گر چه پر مکر است آن گنده بغل‏

  • His cunning went headlong (to ruin), and he went headlong: he passed a little while, and his day set.
  • مکر او سر زیر و او سر زیر شد ** روزگاری برد و روزش دیر شد

  • His brain became dull, his mind doting: his life is gone—and like (the letter) alif he hath nothing.
  • فکرگاهش کند شد عقلش خرف ** عمر شد چیزی ندارد چون الف‏

  • (As for) his saying, “I am thinking about it”—that too is only (part) of the deceit of the fleshly soul; 3085
  • آن چه می‏گوید در این اندیشه‏ام ** آن هم از دستان آن نفس است هم‏

  • And (as for) his saying, “He (God) is forgiving and merciful” —that is naught but a trick of the villainous flesh.
  • و انچه می‏گوید غفور است و رحیم ** نیست آن جز حیله‏ی نفس لئیم‏

  • O thou that art dead with anxiety because thy hands are empty of bread, what is this fear, since He is forgiving and merciful?
  • ای ز غم مرده که دست از نان تهی است ** چون غفور است و رحیم این ترس چیست‏

  • How an old man complained of his ailments to a doctor, and how the doctor answered him.
  • شکایت گفتن پیر مردی به طبیب از رنجوریها و جواب گفتن طبیب او را

  • An old man said to a doctor, “I am in torment because of my brain.”
  • گفت پیری مر طبیبی را که من ** در زحیرم از دماغ خویشتن‏

  • The doctor replied, “That weakness of brain is from age.” Said the old man, “There are spots of darkness on my eyes.”
  • گفت از پیری است آن ضعف دماغ ** گفت بر چشمم ز ظلمت هست داغ‏

  • “It is from age, O ancient Shaykh,” said the doctor. “Awful pain comes in my back,” said he. 3090
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ قدیم ** گفت پشتم درد می‏آید عظیم‏

  • “It is from age, O emaciated Shaykh” said the doctor. “Whatever I eat,” said he, “is not digested.”
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ نزار ** گفت هر چه می‏خورم نبود گوار

  • The doctor replied, “Weakness of stomach also is (the result) of age.” Said he, “When I breathe, respiration is hard for me.”
  • گفت ضعف معده هم از پیری است ** گفت وقت دم مرا دم گیری است‏

  • “Yes,” he said, “it is asthma*; when old age arrives, two hundred diseases come on.”
  • گفت آری انقطاع دم بود ** چون رسد پیری دو صد علت شود

  • “O fool,” he exclaimed, “you have stuck at this: this is all that you have learned of medicine.
  • گفت ای احمق بر این بر دوختی ** از طبیبی تو همین آموختی‏

  • O crack-brained man, your intellect has not given you this knowledge, that God hath appointed a remedy for every pain. 3095
  • ای مدمغ عقلت این دانش نداد ** که خدا هر رنج را درمان نهاد

  • You, stupid ass, from poorness of ability have remained (fallen) on the ground for want of a sufficient foothold.”
  • تو خر احمق ز اندک مایگی ** بر زمین ماندی ز کوته‏پایگی‏

  • Then the doctor said to him, “O sexagenarian, this anger and this choler are also from old age.
  • پس طبیبش گفت ای عمر تو شصت ** این غضب وین خشم هم از پیری است‏

  • Since all the functions and parts (of your body) are atrophied, your self-control and patience have become weak.”
  • چون همه اوصاف و اجزا شد نحیف ** خویشتن‏داری و صبرت شد ضعیف‏

  • He (an old man) cannot endure two words, he cries out thereat; he cannot retain one draught, he vomits (it)—
  • بر نتابد دو سخن زو هی کند ** تاب یک جرعه ندارد قی کند

  • Except, to be sure, the Ancient (Pír) that is drunken with God, and in whose inward being there is “a goodly life.” 3100
  • جز مگر پیری که از حق است مست ** در درون او حیات طیبه است‏

  • Outwardly he is old, but within he is young. What thing, verily, is he? He is the saint and the prophet.
  • از برون پیر است و در باطن صبی ** خود چه چیز است آن ولی و آن نبی‏

  • If they are not manifest to the good and the evil (alike), what is this envy which the worthless bear against them?
  • گر نه پیدایند پیش نیک و بد ** چیست با ایشان خسان را این حسد

  • And if they do not know them with certain knowledge, what is this hatred and hatching of plots and enmity?
  • ور نمی‏دانندشان علم الیقین ** چیست این بغض و حیل سازی و کین‏

  • And (again), if they know the retribution (which shall take place) at the Resurrection and rising from the dead, how should they dash themselves against a sharp sword?
  • ور نمی‏دانند بعث و رستخیز ** چون زنندی خویش بر شمشیر تیز