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  • In their folly they smote each other with their fists: they were full of ignorance and empty of knowledge.
  • مشت بر هم می‏زدند از ابلهی ** پر بدند از جهل و از دانش تهی‏

  • If a master of the esoteric had been there, a revered and many-languaged man, he would have pacified them;
  • صاحب سری عزیزی صد زبان ** گر بدی آن جا بدادی صلح‏شان‏

  • And then he would have said, “With this one dirhem I will give all of you what ye wish.
  • پس بگفتی او که من زین یک درم ** آرزوی جمله‏تان را می‏خرم‏

  • When without deceit ye surrender your hearts (to me), this dirhem will do all this for you.
  • چون که بسپارید دل را بی‏دغل ** این درمتان می‏کند چندین عمل‏

  • Your one dirhem will become four—the result desired: four enemies will become one through unanimity. 3690
  • یک درمتان می‏شود چار المراد ** چار دشمن می‏شود یک ز اتحاد

  • What each one of you says produces strife and separation; what I say brings you agreement.
  • گفت هر یک تان دهد جنگ و فراق ** گفت من آرد شما را اتفاق‏

  • Therefore be ye mute, keep silence, that I may be your tongue in speech and talk.”
  • پس شما خاموش باشید أنصتوا ** تا زبان تان من شوم در گفت‏وگو

  • (Even) if your words appear uniform (seem to express an agreement), in effect they are the source of contention and anger.
  • گر سخنتان می‏نماید یک نمط ** در اثر مایه‏ی نزاع است و سخط

  • Borrowed (accidental) heat produces no (essential) effect; natural heat hath (its own) effect.
  • گرمی عاریتی ندهد اثر ** گرمی خاصیتی دارد هنر

  • If you have made vinegar hot by means of fire, (still) when you drink it, it will undoubtedly increase the coldness (of your constitution), 3695
  • سرکه را گر گرم کردی ز آتش آن ** چون خوری سردی فزاید بی‏گمان‏

  • Because that (artificially produced) heat of it is exotic: its fundamental nature is coldness and tartness.
  • ز انکه آن گرمی او دهلیزی است ** طبع اصلش سردی است و تیزی است‏

  • And (on the other hand), though grape-syrup be frozen, my son, it will add heat to the liver when you drink it.
  • ور بود یخ بسته دوشاب ای پسر ** چون خوری گرمی فزاید در جگر

  • Hence the Shaykh's hypocrisy is better than our sincerity, for the former arises from (spiritual) insight, while the latter arises from (spiritual) blindness.
  • پس ریای شیخ به ز اخلاص ماست ** کز بصیرت باشد آن وین از عماست‏

  • From the Shaykh's discourse comes union (concord); the words of the corporealists (materialists) bring separation (discord).
  • از حدیث شیخ جمعیت رسد ** تفرقه آرد دم اهل حسد

  • As (for example) Solomon, who sped (on his prophetic mission) from God, and who knew the language of all birds— 3700
  • چون سلیمان کز سوی حضرت بتاخت ** کاو زبان جمله مرغان را شناخت‏

  • In the time of his just sway the deer made friends with the leopard and ceased from war.
  • در زمان عدلش آهو با پلنگ ** انس بگرفت و برون آمد ز جنگ‏

  • The dove became secure from the talons of the hawk, the sheep took no precaution against the wolf.
  • شد کبوتر ایمن از چنگال باز ** گوسفند از گرگ ناورد احتراز

  • He (Solomon) became an arbitrator between enemies: he became a (means of establishing) oneness between the creatures that fly with wings.
  • او میانجی شد میان دشمنان ** اتحادی شد میان پر زنان‏

  • Thou art running after grain, like an ant. Hark! seek for Solomon! Why art thou still astray?
  • تو چو موری بهر دانه می‏دوی ** هین سلیمان جو چه می‏باشی غوی‏

  • To the seeker of grain his grain becomes a snare, but the seeker of Solomon may have both (Solomon and the grain). 3705
  • دانه جو را دانه‏اش دامی شود ** و آن سلیمان جوی را هر دو بود

  • In these latter days the soul-birds have no security from each other for a moment;
  • مرغ جانها را در این آخر زمان ** نیستشان از همدگر یک دم امان‏

  • (Yet) even in our epoch there is a Solomon who would give (us) peace and not suffer our injustice to continue.
  • هم سلیمان هست اندر دور ما ** کاو دهد صلح و نماند جور ما

  • Call to mind (the text), There is no people down to (the words) but in the past a warner dwelt among them.
  • قول إن من أمة را یاد گیر ** تا به إلا و خلا فیها نذیر

  • God said that verily there has never been a people devoid of a vicar of God and a man of spiritual power;
  • گفت خود خالی نبوده ست امتی ** از خلیفه‏ی حق و صاحب همتی‏

  • And he makes the soul-birds so unanimous that, in respect of sincerity, he purges them of (all) guile and rancour. 3710
  • مرغ جانها را چنان یکدل کند ** کز صفاشان بی‏غش و بی‏غل کند