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  • Your words resembling snakes and scorpions have become snakes and scorpions and are seizing your tail (assailing you from behind). 3475
  • آن سخنهای چو مار و کزدمت ** مار و کزدم گشت و می‌گیرد دمت

  • You kept the friends (of God) waiting: (hence) you will be kept waiting at the Resurrection.
  • اولیا را داشتی در انتظار ** انتظار رستخیزت گشت یار

  • Your promise, “To-morrow” and “the day after to-morrow,” has become your waiting on the Day of Congregation: alas for you!
  • وعده‌ی فردا و پس‌فردای تو ** انتظار حشرت آمد وای تو

  • You will remain waiting on that long Day, (engaged) in rendering an account (of your actions) and (standing) in the soul-consuming sun,
  • منتظر مانی در آن روز دراز ** در حساب و آفتاب جان‌گداز

  • Because you were wont to keep Heaven waiting and sow the seed of “I will go on the Way to-morrow.”
  • کسمان را منتظر می‌داشتی ** تخم فردا ره روم می‌کاشتی

  • Your anger is the seed of Hell-fire: take heed, extinguish this Hell of yours, for this is a trap. 3480
  • خشم تو تخم سعیر دوزخست ** هین بکش این دوزخت را کین فخست

  • The extinction of this fire is not (to be effected) save by the Light: “thy light hath put out our fire, we are the grateful.”
  • کشتن این نار نبود جز به نور ** نورک اطفا نارنا نحن الشکور

  • If you are devoid of the Light and do an act of clemency, ’tis evil: your fire (of anger) is (still) alive and is (still lurking) in the embers.
  • گر تو بی نوری کنی حلمی بدست ** آتشت زنده‌ست و در خاکسترست

  • Beware! That (clemency) is (mere) ostentation and masking (the truth): nothing will extinguish the fire (of anger) except the Light of Religion.
  • آن تکلف باشد و روپوش هین ** نار را نکشد به غیر نور دین

  • Do not be secure till you behold the Light of Religion, for the hidden fire will one day become manifest.
  • تا نبینی نور دین آمن مباش ** کاتش پنهان شود یک روز فاش

  • Deem the Light to be a water, and cleave to the water withal: when you have the water, be not afraid of the fire. 3485
  • نور آبی دان و هم در آب چفس ** چونک داری آب از آتش مترس

  • The water will extinguish the fire, because the fire by its nature burns up its (the water's) progeny and children.
  • آب آتش را کشد کتش بخو ** می‌بسوزد نسل و فرزندان او

  • Go, for a while, to those water-birds, that they may lead you to the Water of Life.
  • سوی آن مرغابیان رو روز چند ** تا ترا در آب حیوانی کشند

  • The land-bird and the water-bird have the same body (outward appearance), but they are (really) opposites: they are (like) water and oil.
  • مرغ خاکی مرغ آبی هم‌تنند ** لیک ضدانند آب و روغنند

  • Each (of them) is devoted to its own origin; have a care (in discriminating between them): they resemble each other (externally),
  • هر یکی مر اصل خود را بنده‌اند ** احتیاطی کن بهم ماننده‌اند

  • Just as both (Satanic) suggestion and Divine inspiration are intelligible, and yet there is a (great) difference (between them). 3490
  • همچنانک وسوسه و وحی الست ** هر دو معقولند لیکن فرق هست

  • Both (these) brokers in the market of Conscience extol their wares, O prince.
  • هر دو دلالان بازار ضمیر ** رختها را می‌ستایند ای امیر

  • If you are a spiritual money-changer, one who recognises thought, distinguish the real nature of the two thoughts which resemble slave-dealers (commending the slaves they hope to sell);
  • گر تو صراف دلی فکرت شناس ** فرق کن سر دو فکر چون نخاس

  • And if from (your own) opinion you do not know (the true nature of) these two thoughts, say, “No deception!” and be not in a hurry and do not push forward.
  • ور ندانی این دو فکرت از گمان ** لا خلابه گوی و مشتاب و مران

  • The means of preventing one's self from being swindled in sale and purchase.
  • حیله دفع مغبون شدن در بیع و شرا

  • A certain friend said to the Prophet, “I am always being swindled in commerce.
  • آن یکی یاری پیمبر را بگفت ** که منم در بیعها با غبن جفت

  • The deceit of every one who sells or buys is like magic and leads me off the track.” 3495
  • مکر هر کس کو فروشد یا خرد ** همچو سحرست و ز راهم می‌برد

  • He (the Prophet) said, “When thou art afraid of being duped in a commercial transaction, stipulate (that thou shalt have) for thyself three days (in which) to choose,
  • گفت در بیعی که ترسی از غرار ** شرط کن سه روز خود را اختیار

  • For deliberation is assuredly from the Merciful (God); thy haste is from the accursed Devil.”
  • که تانی هست از رحمان یقین ** هست تعجیلت ز شیطان لعین

  • When you throw a morsel of bread to a dog, he (first) smells, then he eats, O careful one.
  • پیش سگ چون لقمه نان افکنی ** بو کند آنگه خورد ای معتنی

  • He smells with the nose, we too (who are endowed) with wisdom smell it (the object submitted to us) with the purified intelligence.
  • او ببینی بو کند ما با خرد ** هم ببوییمش به عقل منتقد