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495-519

  • 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

  • For if We had sent down (revealed) a Book to the mountain, it would have been riven asunder, then cut to pieces, and then it would have departed (disappeared).
  • که لو انزلنا کتابا للجبل ** لانصدع ثم انقطع ثم ارتحل‏

  • If Mount Uhud had been acquainted with Me, it would have been shivered to pieces and its heart would have been filled with blood.” 510
  • از من ار کوه احد واقف بدی ** پاره گشتی و دلش پر خون شدی‏

  • You have heard this from your father and mother; in consequence you have embraced it thoughtlessly.
  • از پدر وز مادر این بشنیده‏ای ** لاجرم غافل در این پیچیده‏ای‏

  • If you become acquainted with this without blind imitation, by (His) grace you will become immaterial, like a voice from Heaven.
  • گر تو بی‏تقلید از این واقف شوی ** بی‏نشان از لطف چون هاتف شوی‏

  • Hear this (following) story as a deterrent, in order that you may know the banefulness of blind imitation.
  • بشنو این قصه پی تهدید را ** تا بدانی آفت تقلید را

  • How the Súfís sold the traveller's beast (to pay) for the (expenses of the) mystic dance.
  • فروختن صوفیان بهیمه‏ی مسافر را جهت سماع

  • A Súfí, after journeying, arrived at a monastery (for Súfís); he took his mount and led it to the stable.
  • صوفیی در خانقاه از ره رسید ** مرکب خود برد و در آخر کشید

  • With his own hand he gave it a little water and some fodder: (he was) not such a Súfí as the one we told of before. 515
  • آب کش داد و علف از دست خویش ** نه چنان صوفی که ما گفتیم پیش‏

  • He took precaution for it against neglect and craziness, (but) when the (Divine) destiny comes to pass, of what avail is precaution?
  • احتیاطش کرد از سهو و خباط ** چون قضا آید چه سود است احتیاط

  • The Súfís were destitute and poor: poverty almost comprises an infidelity that brings (the soul) to perdition.
  • صوفیان در جوع بودند و فقیر ** کاد فقر أن یعی کفرا یبیر

  • O thou rich man who art full fed, beware of laughing at the unrighteousness of the suffering poor.
  • ای توانگر که تو سیری هین مخند ** بر کجی آن فقیر دردمند

  • On account of their destitution that Súfí flock, all of them, adopted (the expedient of) selling the ass,
  • از سر تقصیر آن صوفی رمه ** خر فروشی در گرفتند آن همه‏