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1251-1275

  • When the just king is associated with him, his (the king's) name is light upon light.
  • شاه عادل چون قرین او شود ** نام آن نور علی نور این بود

  • A king like Solomon and a vizier like Ásaf are light upon light and ambergris upon ‘abír.
  • چون سلیمان شاه و چون آصف وزیر ** نور بر نورست و عنبر بر عبیر

  • (When) the king (is like) Pharaoh and his vizier like Hámán, ill-fortune is inevitable for both.
  • شاه فرعون و چو هامانش وزیر ** هر دو را نبود ز بدبختی گزیر

  • Then it is (a case of) darkness, one part over another: neither intellect nor fortune shall be their friend on the Day of Judgement.
  • پس بود ظلمات بعضی فوق بعض ** نه خرد یار و نه دولت روز عرض

  • I have not seen aught but misery in the vile: if thou hast seen (aught else), convey (to them) the salaam (of felicitation) from me. 1255
  • من ندیدم جز شقاوت در لام ** گر تو دیدستی رسان از من سلام

  • The king is as the spirit, and the vizier as the intellect: the corrupt intellect brings the spirit into movement (towards corruption).
  • هم‌چو جان باشد شه و صاحب چو عقل ** عقل فاسد روح را آرد بنقل

  • When the angelical intellect became a Hárút, it became the teacher in magic to two hundred devils.
  • آن فرشته‌ی عقل چون هاروت شد ** سحرآموز دو صد طاغوت شد

  • Do not take the particular (individual) intellect as thy vizier: make the Universal Intellect thy vizier, O king.
  • عقل جزوی را وزیر خود مگیر ** عقل کل را ساز ای سلطان وزیر

  • Do not make sensuality thy vizier, else thy pure spirit will cease from prayer,
  • مر هوا را تو وزیر خود مساز ** که برآید جان پاکت از نماز

  • For this sensuality is full of greed and sees (only) the immediate present, (whereas) the Intellect takes thought for the Day of Judgement. 1260
  • کین هوا پر حرص و حالی‌بین بود ** عقل را اندیشه یوم دین بود

  • The two eyes of the Intellect are (fixed) on the end of things: it endures the pain of the thorn for the sake of that Rose
  • عقل را دو دیده در پایان کار ** بهر آن گل می‌کشد او رنج خار

  • Which does not fade and drop in autumn—far from it be the wind (breath) of every nose that cannot smell!
  • که نفرساید نریزد در خزان ** باد هر خرطوم اخشم دور از آن

  • How the Demon sat on the place (throne) of Solomon, on whom be peace, and imitated his actions; and concerning the manifest difference between the two Solomons, and how the Demon called himself Solomon son of David.
  • نشستن دیو بر مقام سلیمان علیه‌السلام و تشبه کردن او به کارهای سلیمان علیه‌السلام و فرق ظاهر میان هر دو سلیمان و دیو خویشتن را سلیمان بن داود نام کردن

  • Even if thou hast intellect, associate and consult with another intellect, O father.
  • ورچه عقلت هست با عقل دگر ** یار باش و مشورت کن ای پدر

  • With two intellects thou wilt be delivered from many afflictions: thou wilt plant thy foot on the summit of the heavens.
  • با دو عقل از بس بلاها وا رهی ** پای خود بر اوج گردونها نهی

  • If the Demon called himself Solomon and won the kingdom and made the empire subject (to him), 1265
  • دیو گر خود را سلیمان نام کرد ** ملک برد و مملکت را رام کرد

  • (It was because) he had seen (and imitated) the form of Solomon's action; (but) within the form the spirit of demonry was appearing.
  • صورت کار سلیمان دیده بود ** صورت اندر سر دیوی می‌نمود

  • The people said, “This Solomon is without excellence: there are (great) differences between (that) Solomon and (this) Solomon.”
  • خلق گفتند این سلیمان بی‌صفاست ** از سلیمان تا سلیمان فرقهاست

  • He (the former) is like wakefulness, this one is like sleep; (there is as much difference) as between that Hasan and this Hasan.
  • او چو بیداریست این هم‌چون وسن ** هم‌چنانک آن حسن با این حسن

  • The Demon would reply, “God has bestowed on Ahriman a pleasing form (aspect) in the likeness of me.
  • دیو می‌گفتی که حق بر شکل من ** صورتی کردست خوش بر اهرمن

  • God hath given my aspect to the Devil: let him not cast you into his net! 1270
  • دیو را حق صورت من داده است ** تا نیندازد شما را او بشست

  • If he appear with the pretence (that he is really I), beware! Do not have regard to his (outward) form.”
  • گر پدید آید به دعوی زینهار ** صورت او را مدارید اعتبار

  • The Demon was saying this to them from guile, but in good (enlightened) hearts the reverse of this was apparent.
  • دیوشان از مکر این می‌گفت لیک ** می‌نمود این عکس در دلهای نیک

  • There is no playing tricks with the discerning man, especially (with) him whose discernment and intelligence speak of the Unseen.
  • نیست بازی با ممیز خاصه او ** که بود تمییز و عقلش غیب‌گو

  • No magic and no imposture and fraud will bind a veil upon the owners of (spiritual) empire.
  • هیچ سحر و هیچ تلبیس و دغل ** می‌نبندد پرده بر اهل دول

  • Hence they were saying to themselves in reply (to the Demon), “Thou art going upside down, O thou who art addressed falsely (by the name of Solomon). 1275
  • پس همی گفتند با خود در جواب ** بازگونه می‌روی ای کژ خطاب