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  • 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

  • They become (as) kind as a mother: he (Mohammed) said of the Moslems, “(They are as) one soul.”
  • مشفقان گردند همچون والده ** مسلمون را گفت نفس واحده‏

  • (’Twas) through the Messenger of Allah they became one soul; else, they were absolute enemies, every one (to the other).
  • نفس واحد از رسول حق شدند ** ور نه هر یک دشمن مطلق بدند

  • How dissension and enmity amongst the Ansár were removed by the blessings of the Prophet—may God bless and save him!
  • برخاستن مخالفت و عداوت از میان انصار به برکات رسول صلی الله علیه و آله

  • The two tribes which were named Aws and Khazraj had a blood-thirsty spirit towards each other.
  • دو قبیله کاوس و خزرج نام داشت ** یک ز دیگر جان خون آشام داشت‏

  • Through (the preaching of) Mustafá (Mohammed) their ancient feuds vanished in the light of Islam and of pureness (of heart).
  • کینه‏های کهنه‏شان از مصطفی ** محو شد در نور اسلام و صفا

  • First, those enemies became brethren like the units of (a bunch of) grapes in the garden; 3715
  • اولا اخوان شدند آن دشمنان ** همچو اعداد عنب در بوستان‏

  • And (then) at the admonition given in the words, The true believers are brethren, they dissolved (and mingled) and became one body.
  • و ز دم المؤمنون إخوة به پند ** در شکستند و تن واحد شدند

  • The appearance of the (clustered) grapes is (that of) brethren: when you squeeze them they become one juice.
  • صورت انگورها اخوان بود ** چون فشردی شیره‏ی واحد شود

  • The immature and the full-grown grape are opponents, but when the immature grape has ripened, it becomes a good friend.
  • غوره و انگور ضدانند لیک ** چون که غوره پخته شد شد یار نیک‏

  • The immature grape that has remained stone-hard and crude —God in eternity has called it an original unbeliever.
  • غوره‏ای کاو سنگ بست و خام ماند ** در ازل حق کافر اصلیش خواند