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1704-1728

  • Every destruction of an olden people that there was—(it was) because they deemed sandal-wood to be (common) wood.
  • هر هلاک امت پیشین که بود ** زانک چندل را گمان بردند عود

  • They had the discernment that should make that (difference) evident, but greed and cupidity make (men) blind and deaf. 1705
  • بودشان تمییز کان مظهر کند ** لیک حرص و آز کور و کر کند

  • The blindness of the (physically) blind is not far from (the Divine) mercy; ’tis the blindness of greed that is inexcusable.
  • کوری کوران ز رحمت دور نیست ** کوری حرص است که آن معذور نیست

  • Crucifixion (tribulation) inflicted by the King (God) is not far from mercy; the crucifixion (torment) of envy is not forgiven (by God).
  • چارمیخ شه ز رحمت دور نی ** چار میخ حاسدی مغفور نی

  • O fish, regard the end; do not regard the hook: evil appetite has bandaged (blindfolded) thine eye that sees the end.
  • ماهیا آخر نگر بنگر بشست ** بدگلویی چشم آخربینت بست

  • See the beginning and the end with both eyes: beware, do not be one-eyed like the accursed Iblís.
  • با دو دیده اول و آخر ببین ** هین مباش اعور چو ابلیس لعین

  • The one-eyed man is he who saw only the present—ignorant, like the beasts, of (what comes) after. 1710
  • اعور آن باشد که حالی دید و بس ** چون بهایم بی‌خبر از بازپس

  • Since the two eyes of an ox are (rated) as one eye (of a man) in (the case of) damages for (their) destruction—for it (the ox) hath no excellence—
  • چون دو چشم گاو در جرم تلف ** هم‌چو یک چشمست کش نبود شرف

  • Its two eyes are worth (only) a half of its value, inasmuch as thine eye is the support for its two eyes.
  • نصف قیمت ارزد آن دو چشم او ** که دو چشمش راست مسند چشم تو

  • But if thou destroy one eye of a son of Adam, by a statute (of the Law) thou must pay half of his value,
  • ور کنی یک چشم آدم‌زاده‌ای ** نصف قیمت لایقست از جاده‌ای

  • Because the human eye works alone by itself without (assistance from) the two eyes of a friend.
  • زانک چشم آدمی تنها به خود ** بی دو چشم یار کاری می‌کند

  • Since (the power of) the donkey's eye (to see) the beginning is not accompanied by (power to see) the end, it (the donkey) is in the same case as the one-eyed man, (even) if it has two eyes. 1715
  • چشم خر چون اولش بی آخرست ** گر دو چشمش هست حکمش اعورست

  • This topic hath no limit—and that light-minded (foolish) one is writing a letter in hope of loaves.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد وان خفیف ** می‌نویسد رقعه در طمع رغیف

  • The rest of the story of the slave’s writing a petition for his allowance.
  • بقیه‌ی نوشتن آن غلام رقعه به طلب اجری

  • Before (writing) the letter he went to the kitchen-stewerd and said, “O niggard of the kitchen of the generous king,
  • رفت پیش از نامه پیش مطبخی ** کای بخیل از مطبخ شاه سخی

  • ‘Tis far from him and from his magnanimity that this (small) amount (matter) of my allowance should come into his consideration.”
  • دور ازو وز همت او کین قدر ** از جری‌ام آیدش اندر نظر

  • He (the steward) said, “He has ordered (so) for a good object, not on account of stinginess or close-fistedness.”
  • گفت بهر مصلحت فرموده است ** نه برای بخل و نه تنگی دست

  • “By God,” he replied, “this is a canard: even old gold is as dust in the king’s eyes.” 1720
  • گفت دهلیزیست والله این سخن ** پیش شه خاکست هم زر کهن

  • The steward raised up manifold arguments: he rejected them all because of the greed which he had (in him).
  • مطبخی ده گونه حجت بر فراشت ** او همه رد کرد از حرصی که داشت

  • When, at the time of the forenoon meal, his (usual) allowance was reduced, he uttered much revilement, (but) it was of no avail.
  • چون جری کم آمدش در وقت چاشت ** زد بسی تشنیع او سودی نداشت

  • He said, “Ye are doing these things on purpose.” “Nay,” said the other, “we obey the (royal) command.
  • گفت قاصد می‌کنید اینها شما ** گفت نه که بنده فرمانیم ما

  • Do not regard this (as proceeding) from the branch (sub ordinate): regard it (as proceeding) from the root (principal); do not strike at the bow, for the arrow is (really) from the arm.
  • این مگیر از فرع این از اصل گیر ** بر کمان کم زن که از بازوست تیر

  • (The words) thou didst not throw when thou threwest are a trial (of men’s understandings): do not lay the fault on the Prophet, for that (throwing) is (an act which proceeded) from God. 1725
  • ما رمیت اذ رمیت ابتلاست ** بر نبی کم نه گنه کان از خداست

  • The water is turbid from the source: O thou who art angry in vain, look farther on, open thine eye once!”
  • آب از سر تیره است ای خیره‌خشم ** پیشتر بنگر یکی بگشای چشم

  • (Moved) by anger and resentment he went into a certain place and wrote an angry letter to the king.
  • شد ز خشم و غم درون بقعه‌ای ** سوی شه بنوشت خشمین رقعه‌ای

  • In that letter he lauded the king and threaded the pearl of (descanted e on) the king’s munificence and generosity,
  • اندر آن رقعه ثنای شاه گفت ** گوهر جود و سخای شاه سفت