- The difficulty over angúr and ‘inab was not solved by the contest between the Turk, the Greek, and the Arab.
- از نزاع ترک و رومی و عرب ** حل نشد اشکال انگور و عنب
- Until the spiritual Solomon, skilled in tongues, shall intervene, this duality will not disappear.
- تا سلیمان لسین معنوی ** در نیاید بر نخیزد این دوی
- O all ye wrangling birds, hearken, like the falcon, to this falcon-drum of the King.
- جمله مرغان منازع بازوار ** بشنوید این طبل باز شهریار
- Hark, from every quarter set out with joy, (flying away) from your diversity towards oneness.
- ز اختلاف خویش سوی اتحاد ** هین ز هر جانب روان گردید شاد
- Wheresoever ye be, turn your faces towards it: this is the thing which He hath not forbidden unto you (at any time). 3745
- حیث ما کنتم فولوا وجهکم ** نحوه هذا الذی لم ینهکم
- Blind birds are we and very inept, in that we have not once recognised that Solomon.
- کور مرغانیم و بس ناساختیم ** کان سلیمان را دمی نشناختیم
- Like the owls, we have become hostile to the falcons: consequently we are left behind (to dwell) in the place of ruin.
- همچو جغدان دشمن بازان شدیم ** لاجرم واماندهی ویران شدیم
- Because of (our) extreme ignorance and blindness we are seeking to hurt those honoured of God.
- میکنیم از غایت جهل و عما ** قصد آزار عزیزان خدا
- How should the flock of birds which are enlightened by Solomon tear out the wings and plumes of the innocent?
- جمع مرغان کز سلیمان روشنند ** پر و بال بیگنه کی بر کنند
- Nay, they would bring grain to the helpless ones: gentle are those birds and without pugnacity or hatred. 3750
- بلکه سوی عاجزان چینه کشند ** بیخلاف و کینه آن مرغان خوشند
- Their hoopoe, for the sake of glorifying (Solomon), unfolds the way (towards Him) to a hundred like Bilqís.
- هدهد ایشان پی تقدیس را ** میگشاید راه صد بلقیس را
- Their crow, (even) if it was a crow in outward aspect, was (really) a falcon in aspiration and (one whose gaze) turned not aside.
- زاغ ایشان گر به صورت زاغ بود ** باز همت آمد و ما زاغ بود
- Their stork, which cries lak lak, casts upon doubt (and disbelief) the fire of the profession of Unity;
- لکلک ایشان که لک لک میزند ** آتش توحید در شک میزند
- And their dove is not scared by hawks: the hawk lays his head (in homage) before their dove.
- و آن کبوترشان ز بازان نشکهد ** باز سر پیش کبوترشان نهد
- Their nightingale, which throws thee into ecstasy, hath the rose-garden in its heart. 3755
- بلبل ایشان که حالت آرد او ** در درون خویش گلشن دارد او
- Their parrot was (always) independent of sugar, for the sugar of everlastingness showed its face (was revealed) to it from within.
- طوطی ایشان ز قند آزاد بود ** کز درون قند ابد رویش نمود
- The feet of their peacocks are fairer to see than (all) others in peacock's plumage.
- پای طاوسان ایشان در نظر ** بهتر از طاوس پران دگر
- The speeches of princely birds are (meaningless as) an echo: where is the speech of the birds of Solomon?
- منطق الطیران خاقانی صداست ** منطق الطیر سلیمانی کجاست
- How wilt thou know the cries of the birds, when thou hast never seen Solomon for a single moment?
- تو چه دانی بانگ مرغان را همی ** چون ندیدهستی سلیمان را دمی
- The wings of that bird whose note thrills (them that can hear it) are beyond East and West. 3760
- پر آن مرغی که بانگش مطرب است ** از برون مشرق است و مغرب است
- Its every course is from the Footstool of God to the earth, and from the earth to the Throne of God it moves in glory and majesty.
- هر یک آهنگش ز کرسی تاثری است ** وز ثری تا عرش در کر و فری است
- The bird that goes without this Solomon is in love with darkness, like a bat.
- مرغ کاو بیاین سلیمان میرود ** عاشق ظلمت چو خفاشی بود
- Make thyself familiar with Solomon, O reprobate bat, in order that thou mayst not remain in darkness for ever.
- با سلیمان خو کن ای خفاش رد ** تا که در ظلمت نمانی تا ابد
- When thou goest one ell's length in that direction, like the ell thou wilt become the standard of measurement;
- یک گزی ره که بدان سو میروی ** همچو گز قطب مساحت میشوی
- And (even by) thy hopping lamely and limply in that direction, thou wilt be freed from all lameness and limpness. 3765
- و انکه لنگ و لوک آن سو میجهی ** از همه لنگی و لوکی میرهی
- The story of the ducklings which were fostered by a domestic fowl.
- قصهی بط بچگان که مرغ خانگی پروردشان