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  • A woman came to Murtadá (‘Alí) and said, “A child belonging to me has gone up on to the water-spout.
  • یک زنی آمد به پیش مرتضی ** گفت شد بر ناودان طفلی مرا

  • If I call it, it will not come to my hands; and if I leave it, I am afraid it will fall to the ground.
  • گرش می‌خوانم نمی‌آید به دست ** ور هلم ترسم که افتد او به پست

  • It is not intelligent, that it should apprehend, like us, if I say, ‘Come to me (and escape) from the danger.’
  • نیست عاقل تا که دریابد چون ما ** گر بگویم کز خطر سوی من آ

  • Moreover, it does not understand signs made by the hand; or if it should understand, it will not hearken: this too is bad (useless). 2660
  • هم اشارت را نمی‌داند به دست ** ور بداند نشنود این هم به دست

  • Many times have I shown to it the milk and the teat, (but) it always turns its eyes and face away from me.
  • بس نمودم شیر و پستان را بدو ** او همی گرداند از من چشم و رو

  • For God's sake—(since) ye, O noble ones, are those who give succour in this world and that (other) world—
  • از برای حق شمایید ای مهان ** دستگیر این جهان و آن جهان

  • Quickly apply the remedy, for my heart is trembling lest I be torn painfully from the fruit of my heart.”
  • زود درمان کن که می‌لرزد دلم ** که بدرد از میوه‌ی دل بسکلم

  • He (‘Alí) said, “Take another child up to the roof, in order that the boy may see his congener,
  • گفت طفلی را بر آور هم به بام ** تا ببیند جنس خود را آن غلام

  • And come nimbly from the water-spout to his congener: congener is ever in love with congener.” 2665
  • سوی جنس آید سبک زان ناودان ** جنس بر جنس است عاشق جاودان

  • The woman did so, and when her child saw its congener, it turned its face towards it with delight
  • زن چنان کرد و چو دید آن طفل او ** جنس خود خوش خوش بدو ورد آورد

  • And came from the ridge of the water-spout to the roof: know that a congener attracts every congener.
  • سوی بام آمد ز متن ناودان ** جاذب هر جنس را هم جنس دان

  • The child came crawling along to the (other) child: it was saved from falling to (the ground) below.
  • غژغژان آمد به سوی طفل طفل ** وا رهید او از فتادن سوی سفل

  • The prophets are of humankind for this reason, that they (humankind), through the homogeneity (of the prophets with them), may be saved from the water-spout.
  • زان بود جنس بشر پیغامبران ** تا بجنسیت رهند از ناودان

  • Therefore he (the Prophet) called himself a man like you, that ye might come to your congener and might not become lost; 2670
  • پس بشر فرمود خود را مثلکم ** تا به جنس آیید و کم گردید گم

  • For homogeneity is a wondrous attractor: wheresoever there is a seeker, his congener is attracting him.
  • زانک جنسیت عجایب جاذبیست ** جاذبش جنسست هر جا طالبیست

  • Jesus and Idrís ascended to heaven, since they were homogeneous with the angels.
  • عیسی و ادریس بر گردون شدند ** با ملایک چونک هم‌جنس آمدند

  • Again, Hárút and Márút were homogeneous with the body: hence they descended from on high.
  • باز آن هاروت و ماروت از بلند ** جنس تن بودند زان زیر آمدند

  • The infidels have become homogeneous with Satan: their spirits have become disciples of the devils.
  • کافران هم جنس شیطان آمده ** جانشان شاگرد شیطانان شده

  • They have learned a hundred thousand evil dispositions; they have sewn up the eyes of intellect and heart. 2675
  • صد هزاران خوی بد آموخته ** دیده‌های عقل و دل بر دوخته

  • Their least ugly disposition is envy—that envy which smote the neck of (destroyed) Iblís.
  • کمترین خوشان به زشتی آن حسد ** آن حسد که گردن ابلیس زد

  • From those curs they have learned hatred and envy, for he (Satan) does not wish the kingdom everlasting (to be granted) to (God's) creatures.
  • زان سگان آموخته حقد و حسد ** که نخواهد خلق را ملک ابد

  • When he sees, on left or right, any one perfect, colic comes to him and pain arises (in him) from envy,
  • هر کرا دید او کمال از چپ و راست ** از حسد قولنجش آمد درد خاست

  • Because every miserable wretch whose stack has been burnt is unwilling that any one's candle should be lighted.
  • زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن‌سوخته ** می‌نخواهد شمع کس افروخته

  • Hark, bring to hand (acquire) some (degree of) perfection, in order that thou too mayst not be aggrieved by the perfection of others. 2680
  • هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم ** از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم

  • Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,
  • از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد