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  • Shall I hearken (to him) or shall I too give him deceit (in return), in order that that puller of the branch may recognise the root?
  • بشنوم یا من دهم هم خدعه‌اش ** تا بداند اصل را آن فرع‌کش

  • For the root (origin) of every cunning and contrivance is with use: whatsoever is on the earth, its root (origin) is from Heaven.”
  • که اصل هر مکری و حیلت پیش ماست ** هر چه بر خاکست اصلش از سماست

  • God said (to Moses), “That cur (Pharaoh) is not worth even that: fling a bone to the cur from a distance.
  • گفت حق آن سگ نیرزد هم به آن ** پیش سگ انداز از دور استخوان

  • Hark, shake the rod, so that the sods may give back whatever the locusts have destroyed,
  • هین بجنبان آن عصا تا خاکها ** وا دهد هرچه ملخ کردش فنا

  • And let the locusts immediately become black, that the people may behold the transformation wrought by God; 3600
  • وان ملخها در زمان گردد سیاه ** تا ببیند خلق تبدیل اله

  • For I have no need of means: those means are (only) for the purpose of (serving as) a screen and covering,
  • که سببها نیست حاجت مر مرا ** آن سبب بهر حجابست و غطا

  • To the end that the natural philosopher may attach himself to the drug; and that the astronomer may turn his face to the star;
  • تا طبیعی خویش بر دارو زند ** تا منجم رو با ستاره کند

  • And that the hypocrite, from greed, may come to market at daybreak for fear of (finding) no demand for his wares,
  • تا منافق از حریصی بامداد ** سوی بازار آید از بیم کساد

  • Without having performed his devotions or washed his face (whilst) seeking morsels (for himself) he has become a morsel for Hell.”
  • بندگی ناکرده و ناشسته روی ** لقمه‌ی دوزخ بگشته لقمه‌جوی

  • The spirit of the vulgar is devouring and being devoured, like the lamb that feeds on hay. 3605
  • آکل و ماکول آمد جان عام ** هم‌چو آن بره‌ی چرنده از حطام

  • The lamb is feeding, while the butcher rejoices, saying, “For our sake it feeds on the grass of (its) desire.”
  • می‌چرد آن بره و قصاب شاد ** کو برای ما چرد برگ مراد

  • In respect of food and drink thou art doing the work of Hell thou art fattening thyself for its (Hell’s) sake.
  • کار دوزخ می‌کنی در خوردنی ** بهر او خود را تو فربه می‌کنی

  • Do thine own work, feed on the daily bread of Wisdom, that the glorious heart (spirit) may become fat.
  • کار خود کن روزی حکمت بچر ** تا شود فربه دل با کر و فر

  • Bodily eating and drinking is the obstacle to this (spiritual) eating and drinking: the spirit is like a merchant, while the body is like a highwayman.
  • خوردن تن مانع این خوردنست ** جان چو بازرگان و تن چون ره‌زنست

  • (Only) at the time when the highwayman is consumed like firewood is the candle of the spirit resplendent; 3610
  • شمع تاجر آنگهست افروخته ** که بود ره‌زن چو هیزم سوخته

  • For thou art (in reality) that (spiritual) intelligence, and (all) the rest (of thee) is a mask concealing the intelligence. Do not lose thy (real) self, do not strive in vain!
  • که تو آن هوشی و باقی هوش‌پوش ** خویشتن را گم مکن یاوه مکوش

  • Know that every sensual desire is like wine and beng: it is a veil over the intelligence, and thereby the rational man is stupefied.
  • دانک هر شهوت چو خمرست و چو بنگ ** پرده‌ی هوشست وعاقل زوست دنگ

  • The intoxication of the intelligence is not (caused by) wine alone: whatsoever is sensual shuts the (spiritual) eye and ear.
  • خمر تنها نیست سرمستی هوش ** هر چه شهوانیست بندد چشم و گوش

  • Iblís was far removed from wine-drinking: he was drunken with pride and unbelief.
  • آن بلیس از خمر خوردن دور بود ** مست بود او از تکبر وز جحود

  • The drunken man is he who sees that which is not: (to him) what is (really) a piece of copper or iron appears to be gold. 3615
  • مست آن باشد که آن بیند که نیست ** زر نماید آنچ مس و آهنیست

  • This discourse hath no end. (God said), “O Moses, move thy lips, that the herbage may spring forth.”
  • این سخن پایان ندارد موسیا ** لب بجنبان تا برون روژد گیا

  • He (Moses) did so, and immediately the earth became green with hyacinths and costly grains.
  • هم‌چنان کرد و هم اندر دم زمین ** سبز گشت از سنبل و حب ثمین

  • That folk fell to (eating) the food, since they had suffered famine and were (almost) dead from ravenous hunger.
  • اندر افتادند در لوت آن نفر ** قحط دیده مرده از جوع البقر

  • For several days they ate their fill of the gift, (both) those who were inspired by that breath (of Moses) and the (other) human beings and the quadrupeds.
  • چند روزی سیر خوردند از عطا ** آن دمی و آدمی و چارپا

  • When their bellies were filled and they grasped the (Divine) bounty and the necessity was gone, then they waxed insolent (in disobedience). 3620
  • چون شکم پر گشت و بر نعمت زدند ** وآن ضرورت رفت پس طاغی شدند