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  • 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

  • Thou art the offspring of a duck, though a domestic fowl has fostered thee as a nurse beneath her wing.
  • تخم بطی گر چه مرغ خانه‏ات ** کرد زیر پر چو دایه تربیت‏

  • Thy mother was the duck of that Sea; thy nurse was of the earth and devoted to the dry land.
  • مادر تو بط آن دریا بده‏ست ** دایه‏ات خاکی بد و خشکی پرست‏