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  • Oh, there is many a parrot that speaks though it is mute; oh, there is many a sweet-spirited one whose face is sour.
  • ای بسا طوطی گویای خمش ** ای بسا شیرین‌روان رو ترش

  • Go to the graveyard, sit awhile in silence, and behold those eloquent silent ones;
  • رو به گورستان دمی خامش نشین ** آن خموشان سخن‌گو را ببین

  • But, if you see that their dust is of one colour, (yet) their active (spiritual) state is not uniform. 4765
  • لیک اگر یکرنگ بینی خاکشان ** نیست یکسان حالت چالاکشان

  • The fat and flesh of living persons is uniform, (yet) one is sad, another glad.
  • شحم و لحم زندگان یکسان بود ** آن یکی غمگین دگر شادان بود

  • Until you hear their words, what should you know (of their feelings), inasmuch as their (inward) state is hidden from you?
  • تو چه دانی تا ننوشی قالشان ** زانک پنهانست بر تو حالشان

  • You may hear words—(cries of) háy, húy; (but) how will you perceive the (inward) state that hath a hundred folds?
  • بشنوی از قال های و هوی را ** کی ببینی حالت صدتوی را

  • Our (human) figure is uniform, (yet) endued with contrary qualities: likewise their dust is uniform, (yet) their spirits are diverse.
  • نقش ما یکسان بضدها متصف ** خاک هم یکسان روانشان مختلف

  • Similarly, voices are uniform (as such), (but) one is sorrowful, and another full of charms. 4770
  • همچنین یکسان بود آوازها ** آن یکی پر درد و آن پر نازها

  • On the battle-field you may hear the cry of horses; in strolling round (a garden) you may hear the cry of birds.
  • بانگ اسپان بشنوی اندر مصاف ** بانگ مرغان بشنوی اندر طواف

  • One (voice proceeds) from hate, and another from harmony; one from pain, and another from joy.
  • آن یکی از حقد و دیگر ز ارتباط ** آن یکی از رنج و دیگر از نشاط

  • Whoever is remote from (ignorant of) their (inward) state, to him the voices are uniform.
  • هر که دور از حالت ایشان بود ** پیشش آن آوازها یکسان بود

  • One tree is moved by blows of the axe, another tree by the breeze of dawn.
  • آن درختی جنبد از زخم تبر ** و آن درخت دیگر از باد سحر

  • Much error befell me from (I was greatly deceived by) the worthless pot, because the pot was boiling (while) covered by the lid. 4775
  • بس غلط گشتم ز دیگ مردریگ ** زانک سرپوشیده می‌جوشید دیگ

  • The fervour and savour of every one says to you, “Come”— the fervour of sincerity and the fervour of imposture and hypocrisy.
  • جوش و نوش هرکست گوید بیا ** جوش صدق و جوش تزویر و ریا

  • If you have not the scent (discernment derived) from the soul that recognises the face (reality), go, get for yourself a (spiritual) brain (sense) that recognises the scent.
  • گر نداری بو ز جان روشناس ** رو دماغی دست آور بوشناس

  • The brain (sense) that haunts yon Rose-garden—’tis it that makes bright the eyes of (all) Jacobs.
  • آن دماغی که بر آن گلشن تند ** چشم یعقوبان هم او روشن کند

  • Come now, relate what happened to that heart-sick (youth), for we have left the man of Bukhárá far behind, O son.
  • هین بگو احوال آن خسته‌جگر ** کز بخاری دور ماندیم ای پسر

  • How the lover found his beloved; and a discourse showing that the seeker is a finder, for he who shall do as much good as the weight of an ant shall see it (in the end).
  • یافتن عاشق معشوق را و بیان آنک جوینده یابنده بود کی و من یعمل مثقال ذرة خیرا یره

  • (It happened) that for seven years that youth was (engaged) in search and seeking: from (cherishing) the phantasy of union he became like a phantom. 4780
  • کان جوان در جست و جو بد هفت سال ** از خیال وصل گشته چون خیال

  • (If) the shadow (protection) of God be over the head of the servant (of God), the seeker at last will be a finder.
  • سایه‌ی حق بر سر بنده بود ** عاقبت جوینده یابنده بود

  • The Prophet said that when you knock at a door, at last a head will come forth from that door.
  • گفت پیغامبر که چون کوبی دری ** عاقبت زان در برون آید سری

  • When you sit (wait) on the road of a certain person, at last you will see also the face of a certain person.
  • چون نشینی بر سر کوی کسی ** عاقبت بینی تو هم روی کسی

  • When, every day, you keep digging the earth from a pit, at last you will arrive at the pure water.
  • چون ز چاهی می‌کنی هر روز خاک ** عاقبت اندر رسی در آب پاک

  • (Even) if you may not believe (it), all know this, (that) one day you will reap whatsoever you are sowing. 4785
  • جمله دانند این اگر تو نگروی ** هر چه می‌کاریش روزی بدروی

  • You struck the stone (flint) against the iron (steel): the fire did not flash out! This may not be; or if it be (so), ’tis rare.
  • سنگ بر آهن زدی آتش نجست ** این نباشد ور بباشد نادرست

  • He to whom felicity and salvation are not apportioned (by God)—his mind regards naught but the rarities.
  • آنک روزی نیستش بخت و نجات ** ننگرد عقلش مگر در نادرات