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  • 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

  • He (the grammarian) replied, “This (form of words) is (only) the measure (container) of the meaning signified: take some wheat, for the measure is (to be) rejected.
  • گفت این پیمانه‏ی معنی بود ** گندمی بستان که پیمانه است رد

  • Zayd and ‘Amr are for the purpose of (showing) the declension and (grammatical) construction: if that (statement that Zayd struck ‘Amr) is untrue, make up with the declension.”
  • زید و عمرو از بهر اعراب است و ساز ** گر دروغ است آن تو با اعراب ساز

  • “Nay,” said he, “I don't know about that. How did Zayd strike ‘Amr without (his committing any) crime or fault?”
  • گفت نه من آن ندانم عمرو را ** زید چون زد بی‏گناه و بی‏خطا

  • He (the grammarian) in desperation started a joke and said, “‘Amr had stolen a superfluous wáw.
  • گفت از ناچار و لاغی بر گشود ** عمرو یک واو فزون دزدیده بود

  • Zayd became aware, and struck the stealer of it: since he (‘Amr) carried it beyond bounds (transgressed the law), the punishment serves him right.” 3635
  • زید واقف گشت دزدش را بزد ** چون که از حد برد او را حد سزد

  • How worthless sayings find acceptance in the minds of worthless folk.
  • پذیرا آمدن سخن باطل در دل باطلان‏

  • He (the fool) said, “Here you are, this is the truth! I accept (it) with (all) my soul.” Wrong seems right to the wrong-minded.
  • گفت اینک راست پذرفتم به جان ** کج نماید راست در پیش کجان‏

  • If you say to a squinting man, “The moon is one,” he will say to you, “These are two (moons); and there is a (great) doubt as to (the moon's) being one”;
  • گر بگویی احولی را مه یکی است ** گویدت این دوست و در وحدت شکی است‏

  • And if somebody laughs at him and says, “There are two,” he deems it the truth. This (mockery) is what the ill-natured (ignorant and contumacious) fellow deserves.
  • ور بر او خندد کسی گوید دو است ** راست دارد این سزای بد خو است‏

  • Lies muster round (those who are living) lies: (the text) the wicked men for the wicked women has thrown light (upon this point).
  • بر دروغان جمع می‏آید دروغ ** الخبیثات الخبیثین زد فروغ‏

  • They whose hearts are (opened) wide (to receive spiritual truths) have wide (far-reaching) hands; they whose (spiritual) eyes are blind have to stumble on stony ground. 3640
  • دل فراخان را بود دست فراخ ** چشم کوران را عثار سنگ‏لاخ‏

  • On seeking the tree whereof none that eats  the fruit shall die.
  • جستن آن درخت که هر که میوه‏ی آن درخت خورد نمیرد

  • A learned man (once) said, for the sake of (telling) a story, “In India there is a certain tree:
  • گفت دانایی برای داستان ** که درختی هست در هندوستان‏

  • Whoso takes and eats of its fruit, he grows not old nor ever dies.”
  • هر کسی کز میوه‏ی او خورد و برد ** نه شود او پیر نه هرگز بمرد

  • A king heard this (tale) from a veracious person: he became a lover of the tree and its fruit.
  • پادشاهی این شنید از صادقی ** بر درخت و میوه‏اش شد عاشقی‏

  • From the Divan of culture he sent an intelligent envoy to India in search (of it).
  • قاصدی دانا ز دیوان ادب ** سوی هندستان روان کرد از طلب‏

  • For (many) years his envoy wandered about India in quest (of the tree). 3645
  • سالها می‏گشت آن قاصد از او ** گرد هندستان برای جستجو

  • He roamed from town to town for this object: neither island nor mountain nor plain was left (unvisited).
  • شهر شهر از بهر این مطلوب گشت ** نه جزیره ماند و نه کوه و نه دشت‏

  • Every one whom he asked made a mock of him, saying, “Who would search after this, unless perhaps a madman in confinement?”
  • هر که را پرسید کردش ریشخند ** کاین که جوید جز مگر مجنون بند

  • Many slapped him jocosely; many said, “O fortunate man,
  • بس کسان صفعش زدند اندر مزاح ** بس کسان گفتند ای صاحب فلاح‏

  • How should the enquiry of a clever and clear-minded person like you be devoid (of result)? How should it be vain?”
  • جستجوی چون تو زیرک سینه صاف ** کی تهی باشد کجا باشد گزاف‏

  • And this (ironical) respect was to him another slap, and it was harder (to bear) than the visible slap. 3650
  • وین مراعاتش یکی صفعی دگر ** وین ز صفع آشکارا سخت‏تر