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318-342

  • Though you may learn Wisdom by rote, it becomes quit of you when you are unworthy (to receive it);
  • گر چه حکمت را به تکرار آوری ** چون تو نااهلی شود از تو بری‏

  • And though you write it and note it (down), and though you brag (about it) and expound it,
  • ور چه بنویسی نشانش می‏کنی ** ور چه می‏لافی بیانش می‏کنی‏

  • It withdraws its face from you, O disputatious one: it snaps its bonds and (takes) flight from you. 320
  • او ز تو رو در کشد ای پر ستیز ** بندها را بگسلد وز تو گریز

  • (But) if you read not and it sees your ardour (of love), Knowledge will be a bird docile (and obedient) to your hand.
  • ور نخوانی و ببیند سوز تو ** علم باشد مرغ دست‏آموز تو

  • It does not abide with every unskilled tiro: (it is) like a peacock (which does not stay) in the house of a peasant.
  • او نپاید پیش هر نااوستا ** همچو طاوسی به خانه‏ی روستا

  • How the King found his falcon in the house of a decrepit old woman.
  • یافتن پادشاه باز را به خانه‏ی کمپیر زن

  • Religion is not (like) the falcon that fled from the King to the old crone who was sifting flour
  • دین نه آن باز است کاو از شه گریخت ** سوی آن کمپیر کاو می‏آرد بیخت‏

  • That she might cook tutmáj for her children. (When) she saw the beautiful well-born falcon,
  • تا که تتماجی پزد اولاد را ** دید آن باز خوش خوش زاد را

  • She tied its little foot and clipped its wings; she cut its talons and fed it with straw. 325
  • پایکش بست و پرش کوتاه کرد ** ناخنش ببرید و قوتش کاه کرد

  • “Unworthy folk,” said she, “have not kept thee in (good) trim: thy wings are overgrown and thy talons have become long.
  • گفت نااهلان نکردندت به ساز ** پر فزود از حد و ناخن شد دراز

  • Every unworthy one's hand makes thee ill: come to thy mother that she may take care of thee.”
  • دست هر نااهل بیمارت کند ** سوی مادر آ که تیمارت کند

  • Know, O friend, that such is the affection of the fool: the fool ever walks crookedly on the way.
  • مهر جاهل را چنین دان ای رفیق ** کژ رود جاهل همیشه در طریق‏

  • The King's day became late (far-spent) in searching (for the falcon): he went (at last) to the old woman and the tent (where she lived).
  • روز شه در جستجو بی‏گاه شد ** سوی آن کمپیر و آن خرگاه شد

  • Suddenly he espied the falcon amidst smoke and dust: the King wept sorely over it and made lament. 330
  • دید ناگه باز را در دود و گرد ** شه بر او بگریست زار و نوحه کرد

  • He said, “Albeit this is the retribution for thy deed, in that thou art not firm in keeping faith with me,
  • گفت هر چند این جز ای کار تست ** که نباشی در وفای ما درست‏

  • (Yet) how shouldst thou take flight from Paradise to Hell, heedless of (the text) the people of the Fire (and those of Paradise) are not equal?
  • چون کنی از خلد زی دوزخ فرار ** غافل از لا یستوی اصحاب نار

  • This is the fitting reward for one that unconscionably flees from the King who knows (him) well to the house of an old hag.”
  • این سزای آن که از شاه خبیر ** خیره بگریزد به خانه‏ی گنده پیر

  • (Meanwhile) the falcon was rubbing its wings against the King's hand: without tongue it was saying, “I have sinned.”
  • باز می‏مالید پر بر دست شاه ** بی‏زبان می‏گفت من کردم گناه‏

  • Where then should the vile (sinner) plead piteously, where should he moan, if Thou wilt accept naught but good, O bountiful (King)? 335
  • پس کجا زارد کجا نالد لئیم ** گر تو نپذیری بجز نیک ای کریم‏

  • The King's grace makes the soul sin-seeking, because the King makes every foul thing fair.
  • لطف شه جان را جنایت جو کند ** ز آنکه شه هر زشت را نیکو کند

  • Go, do not commit foulness, for (even) our fair deeds appear foul in the sight of our beauteous (Loved One).
  • رو مکن زشتی که نیکیهای ما ** زشت آمد پیش آن زیبای ما

  • You deemed your service worthy: thereby you raised the banner of sin.
  • خدمت خود را سزا پنداشتی ** تو لوای جرم از آن افراشتی‏

  • Forasmuch as praise and prayer were vouchsafed to you, through making that prayer your heart became vainglorious.
  • چون ترا ذکر و دعا دستور شد ** ز آن دعاکردن دلت مغرور شد

  • You regarded yourself as speaking (confidentially) with God. Oh, (there is) many a one that becomes separated (from God) by this opinion. 340
  • هم سخن دیدی تو خود را با خدا ** ای بسا کاو زین گمان افتد جدا

  • Although the King sit with you on the ground, know yourself and sit better (with more decorum and reverence).
  • گر چه با تو شه نشیند بر زمین ** خویشتن بشناس و نیکوتر نشین‏

  • The falcon said, “O King, I am penitent, I am converted, I am embracing Islam anew.
  • باز گفت ای شه پشیمان می‏شوم ** توبه کردم نو مسلمان می‏شوم‏