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  • Inasmuch as imitation is the bane of every good quality; imitation is (but) a straw, (even) if it is a mighty mountain.
  • ز آن که تقلید آفت هر نیکویی است ** که بود تقلید اگر کوه قوی است‏

  • If a blind man is big and choleric, deem him (only) a piece of flesh, since he has no eye (eye-sight). 485
  • گر ضریری لمترست و تیز خشم ** گوشت پاره‏ش دان چو او را نیست چشم‏

  • Though he (the blind imitator) speak words finer than a hair, his heart has no knowledge of these words.
  • گر سخن گوید ز مو باریکتر ** آن سرش را ز آن سخن نبود خبر

  • He has a certain intoxication from his own words, but there is a good way (distance) between him and the Wine.
  • مستیی دارد ز گفت خود و لیک ** از بر وی تا به می راهی است نیک‏

  • He is like a river-bed: it does not drink any water; the water passes through it to the water-drinkers.
  • همچو جوی است او نه او آبی خورد ** آب از او بر آب خواران بگذرد

  • The water does not settle in the river-bed because the river-bed is not thirsty and water-drinking.
  • آب در جو ز آن نمی‏گیرد قرار ** ز آن که آن جو نیست تشنه و آب خوار

  • Like a reed-flute, he makes a piteous lament, but he (only) seeks a purchaser (admirer). 490
  • همچو نایی ناله‏ی زاری کند ** لیک بیگار خریداری کند

  • The imitator in his discourse is (like) a professional mourner: that wicked man has no motive except cupidity.
  • نوحه‏گر باشد مقلد در حدیث ** جز طمع نبود مراد آن خبیث‏

  • The professional mourner utters burning words (of grief), but where is the glow of heart (heartfelt sorrow) and the rent skirt?
  • نوحه‏گر گوید حدیث سوزناک ** لیک کو سوز دل و دامان چاک‏

  • Between the true knower and the blind imitator there are (great) differences, for the former is like David, while the other is (but) an echo.
  • از محقق تا مقلد فرق‏هاست ** کاین چو داود است و آن دیگر صداست‏

  • The source of the former’s words is a glow (of feeling), whereas the imitator is one who learns old things (by rote).
  • منبع گفتار این سوزی بود ** و آن مقلد کهنه آموزی بود

  • Beware! Be not duped by those sorrowful words” the ox bears the load, but it is the cart that moans (creaks). 495
  • هین مشو غره بدان گفت حزین ** بار بر گاو است و بر گردون حنین‏

  • Even the imitator is not disappointed of the (Divine) recompense: the professional mourner gets his wages at the (time of) reckoning.
  • هم مقلد نیست محروم از ثواب ** نوحه‏گر را مزد باشد در حساب‏

  • (Both) infidel and true believer say “God,” but there is a good difference between the two.
  • کافر و مومن خدا گویند لیک ** در میان هر دو فرقی هست نیک‏

  • The beggar says “God” for the sake of bread; the devout man says “God” from his soul.
  • آن گدا گوید خدا از بهر نان ** متقی گوید خدا از عین جان‏

  • If the beggar distinguished (God as He really is) from his own saying (the name of God), neither less nor more would remain before his eye.
  • گر بدانستی گدا از گفت خویش ** پیش چشم او نه کم ماندی نه پیش‏

  • For years that bread-seeker says “god”; like the ass, he carries the Qur’án for the sake of (being fed with) straw. 500
  • سالها گوید خدا آن نان خواه ** همچو خر مصحف کشد از بهر کاه‏

  • Had the word on his lips shone forth in his heart, his body would have been shivered to atoms.
  • گر بدل در تافتی گفت لبش ** ذره ذره گشته بودی قالبش‏

  • In sorcery the name of a demon finds the way (to success); you are earning a petty coin by means of the Name of God.
  • نام دیوی ره برد در ساحری ** تو به نام حق پشیزی می‏بری‏

  • How a peasant stroked a lion in the dark, because he thought it was his ox.
  • خاریدن روستایی در تاریکی شیر را به گمان آن که گاو اوست

  • A peasant tied an ox in the stable: a lion ate his ox and sat in its place.
  • روستایی گاو در آخر ببست ** شیر گاوش خورد و بر جایش نشست‏

  • The peasant went into the stable to (see) the ox: the man, groping into corners, was seeking the ox at night.
  • روستایی شد در آخر سوی گاو ** گاو را می‏جست شب آن کنج کاو

  • He was rubbing his hand on the limbs of the lion, back and side, now above, now below. 505
  • دست می‏مالید بر اعضای شیر ** پشت و پهلو گاه بالا گاه زیر

  • The lion said, “If the light were to become greater, his gall-bladder would burst and his heart would turn to blood.
  • گفت شیر ار روشنی افزون شدی ** زهره‏اش بدریدی و دل خون شدی‏

  • He is stroking me like this so boldly because in this (dark) night he thinks I am the ox.”
  • این چنین گستاخ ز آن می‏خاردم ** کاو درین شب گاو می‏پنداردم‏

  • God is saying, “O blind dupe, did not Túr (Sinai) fall in pieces at My Name?
  • حق همی‏گوید که ای مغرور کور ** نه ز نامم پاره پاره گشت طور