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  • Mary said, “I also felt within me a bowing performed by this babe in the womb.”
  • گفت مریم من درون خویش هم ** سجده‏ای دیدم از این طفل شکم‏

  • On raising a difficulty as to this story.
  • اشکال آوردن بر این قصه‏

  • The foolish say, “Cancel this tale, because it is false and erroneous.
  • ابلهان گویند کاین افسانه را ** خط بکش زیرا دروغ است و خطا

  • Because Mary at the time of her delivery was far away both from strangers and kinfolk.
  • ز انکه مریم وقت وضع حمل خویش ** بود از بیگانه دور و هم ز خویش‏

  • Until that woman of sweet address was delivered outside of the town, she indeed came not into it.
  • از برون شهر آن شیرین فسون ** تا نشد فارغ نیامد خود درون‏

  • When she had given birth to him, she then took him up in her lap and carried him to her kinsfolk. 3610
  • چون بزادش آن گهانش بر کنار ** بر گرفت و برد تا پیش تبار

  • Where did the mother of Yahyá see her to speak these words to her about what had happened?”
  • مادر یحیی کجا دیدش که تا ** گوید او را این سخن در ماجرا

  • The answer to the difficulty.
  • جواب اشکال‏

  • Let him (the objector) know that to one who receives ideas (from God) all that is absent in the world is present.
  • این بداند کان که اهل خاطر است ** غایب آفاق او را حاضر است‏

  • To Mary, the mother of Yahyá would appear present, though she was far from her (bodily) sight.
  • پیش مریم حاضر آید در نظر ** مادر یحیی که دور است از بصر

  • One may see a friend (even) with eyes shut, when one has made the skin (the bodily envelope) a lattice (to let in spiritual ideas).
  • دیده‏ها بسته ببیند دوست را ** چون مشبک کرده باشد پوست را

  • And if she saw her neither from without nor from within, take the (essential) meaning of the story, O imbecile! 3615
  • ور ندیدش نه از برون نز اندرون ** از حکایت گیر معنی ای زبون‏

  • Not like him who had heard (some) fables, and like sh stuck to the (literal) shape of them,
  • نه چنان کافسانه‏ها بشنیده بود ** همچو شین بر نقش آن چسبیده بود

  • So that he would say, “How should Kalíla, having no language, hear words from Dimna who had no power of expression?
  • تا همی‏گفت آن کلیله بی‏زبان ** چون سخن نوشد ز دمنه بی‏بیان‏

  • And (even) if they knew each other's accents, how should man understand it (their talk), (since it was) without any articulation?
  • ور بدانستند لحن همدگر ** فهم آن چون کرد بی‏نطقی بشر

  • How did Dimna become a messenger between the lion and the ox, and cajole them both with his palaver?
  • در میان شیر و گاو آن دمنه چون ** شد رسول و خواند بر هر دو فسون‏

  • How did the noble ox become the vizier of the lion? How was the elephant terrified by the reflection of the moon? 3620
  • چون وزیر شیر شد گاو نبیل ** چون ز عکس ماه ترسان گشت پیل‏

  • This Kalíla and Dimna is entirely fiction, or else how has the stork a quarrel with the crow?”
  • این کلیله و دمنه جمله افتری است ** ور نه کی با زاغ لکلک را مری است‏

  • O brother, the story is like a measure: the real meaning in it resembles grain (in the measure).
  • ای برادر قصه چون پیمانه‏ای است ** معنی اندر وی مثال دانه‏ای است‏

  • The man of intelligence will take the grain of meaning: he will not pay any regard to the measure, (even) if it is removed (altogether).
  • دانه‏ی معنی بگیرد مرد عقل ** ننگرد پیمانه را گر گشت نقل‏

  • Listen to what passes between the rose and the nightingale, though in that case there is no overt speech.
  • ماجرای بلبل و گل گوش دار ** گر چه گفتی نیست آن جا آشکار

  • On mute eloquence and the understanding of it.
  • سخن گفتن به زبان حال و فهم کردن آن

  • Listen to what passes between the moth and the candle, and pick out the meaning from the tale. 3625
  • ماجرای شمع با پروانه نیز ** بشنو و معنی گزین کن ای عزیز

  • Albeit there is no speech, there is the inmost soul of speech. Come, fly aloft, do not fly low, like the owl.
  • گر چه گفتی نیست سر گفت هست ** هین ببالا پر مپر چون جغد پست‏

  • He (the player) at chess said, “This is the house of the rook.” “By what way,” said he (the literalist), “did the house come into its hands?
  • گفت در شطرنج کاین خانه‏ی رخ است ** گفت خانه از کجاش آمد بدست‏

  • Did it buy the house, or inherit it?”—Happy is he that sped towards the (real) meaning!
  • خانه را بخرید یا میراث یافت ** فرخ آن کس کاو سوی معنی شتافت‏

  • A grammarian said, “Zayd has struck ‘Amr.” Said (the fool), “How did he chastise him without any offence (on his part)?
  • گفت نحوی زید عمرا قد ضرب ** گفت چونش کرد بی‏جرمی ادب‏

  • What was ‘Amr's offence, that that rude Zayd struck him, innocent (though he was), as (if he were) a slave?” 3630
  • عمرو را جرمش چه بد کان زید خام ** بی‏گنه او را بزد همچون غلام‏