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1401-1425

  • Beware, do not in your greed let the balance go: cupidity and greed are enemies that lead you to perdition.
  • هین ز حرص خویش میزان را مهل  ** آز و حرص آمد ترا خصم مضل 

  • Greed craves all and loses all: do not serve greed, O ignoble son of the ignoble.
  • حرص جوید کل بر آید او ز کل  ** حرص مپرست ای فجل ابن الفجل 

  • The maid, whilst she went (on her errand), was saying (to herself), “Ah, mistress, thou hast sent away the expert.
  • آن کنیزک می‌شد و می‌گفت آه  ** کردی ای خاتون تو استا را به راه 

  • Thou wilt set to work without the expert and wilt foolishly hazard thy life.
  • کار بی‌استاد خواهی ساختن  ** جاهلانه جان بخواهی باختن 

  • O thou who hast stolen from me an imperfect knowledge, thou wert ashamed to ask about the trap.” 1405
  • ای ز من دزدیده علمی ناتمام  ** ننگ آمد که بپرسی حال دام 

  • (If) the bird had picked the grain from its stack, the (trap-) cord would not have fallen on its neck (and made it captive).
  • هم بچیدی دانه مرغ از خرمنش  ** هم نیفتادی رسن در گردنش 

  • Eat less of the grain, do not patch (the body) so much (with food): after having recited eat ye, recite (also) do not exceed,
  • دانه کمتر خور مکن چندین رفو  ** چون کلوا خواندی بخوان لا تسرفوا 

  • So that you may eat the grain and (yet) not fall into the trap. Knowledge and contentment effect this. And (now) farewell.
  • تا خوری دانه نیفتی تو به دام  ** این کند علم و قناعت والسلام 

  • The wise man gets happiness from the present life, not sorrow, (while) the ignorant are left in disappointment and regret.
  • نعمت از دنیا خورد عاقل نه غم  ** جاهلان محروم مانده در ندم 

  • When the trap-cord (of sensuality) falls on their throats, it becomes unlawful (forbidden) to them all to eat the grain. 1410
  • چون در افتد در گلوشان حبل دام  ** دانه خوردن گشت بر جمله حرام 

  • How should the bird in the trap eat (enjoy) the grain? The grain in the trap is like poison (to him), if he feed (on it).
  • مرغ اندر دام دانه کی خورد  ** دانه چون زهرست در دام ار چرد 

  • (Only) the heedless bird will eat grain from the trap, as these common folk do in the trap of the present world.
  • مرغ غافل می‌خورد دانه ز دام  ** هم‌چو اندر دام دنیا این عوام 

  • Again, the knowing and prudent birds have debarred themselves from the grain;
  • باز مرغان خبیر هوشمند  ** کرده‌اند از دانه خود را خشک‌بند 

  • For the grain in the trap is poisonous food: blind is the bird that desires the grain in the trap.
  • که اندرون دام دانه زهرباست  ** کور آن مرغی که در فخ دانه خواست 

  • The Owner of the trap cut off the heads of the foolish ones, and conducted the clever ones to the (exalted) assembly-places; 1415
  • صاحب دام ابلهان را سر برید  ** وآن ظریفان را به مجلسها کشید 

  • For in the former (only) the flesh is serviceable, but in the clever ones (their) song and warble soft and low.
  • که از آنها گوشت می‌آید به کار  ** وز ظریفان بانگ و ناله‌ی زیر و زار 

  • Deinde venit ancilla perque rimam januae heram videt sub asino mortuam. [Then, the maidservant arrived. Through a crack in the door, she saw the lady dead under the ass.]
  • پس کنیزک آمد از اشکاف در  ** دید خاتون را به مرده زیر خر 

  • “O hera stulta,” inquit, “hoc (facinus ineptum) quid fuit, etsi ea quae perita est technam tibi ostenderat? [She said, “O foolish lady, what was this (foolish deed), even if your teacher showed you a plan (of the method)?]
  • گفت ای خاتون احمق این چه بود  ** گر ترا استاد خود نقشی نمود 

  • Technae quod patebat vidisti, tibi ignotum quod latebat: imperita tabernam aperuisti. [You saw its outward (form); its secret (was) hidden from you. Not having become a master (of the craft), you opened the shop.]
  • ظاهرش دیدی سرش از تو نهان  ** اوستا ناگشته بگشادی دکان 

  • Veretrum tanquam mel vel cibum ex dactylis et butyro comparatum vidisti: cur illam cucurbitam non vidisti, O avida? [You saw the penis, like honey or like dates (cooked with flour and butter): why did you not see the gourd, O greedy one?] 1420
  • کیر دیدی هم‌چو شهد و چون خبیص  ** آن کدو را چون ندیدی ای حریص 

  • Vel cur, cum asini amore obruta esses, cucurbita visu tuo sejuncta manebat? [Or (why), when you were immersed in love for the ass, did the gourd remain hidden from your sight?]
  • یا چون مستغرق شدی در عشق خر  ** آن کدو پنهان بماندت از نظر 

  • Docta ab ea quae perita est vidisti technae speciem externam: peritiam ipsa valde gaudens assumpsisti.” [You saw the external (form) of the craft from the master, (and then) you assumed expertise very joyfully. ]
  • ظاهر صنعت بدیدی زوستاد  ** اوستادی برگرفتی شاد شاد 

  • Oh, there is many a stupid ignorant hypocrite who has seen nothing of the Way of the (holy) men except the woollen mantle (súf).
  • ای بسا زراق گول بی‌وقوف  ** از ره مردان ندیده غیر صوف 

  • Oh, there are many impudent fellows who, with little practice (in the religious life), have learned from the (spiritual) kings nothing but talk and brag.
  • ای بسا شوخان ز اندک احتراف  ** از شهان ناموخته جز گفت و لاف 

  • Every one (of them), staff (rod) in hand, says, “I am Moses,” and breathes upon the foolish folk, saying, “I am Jesus.” 1425
  • هر یکی در کف عصا که موسی‌ام  ** می‌دمد بر ابلهان که عیسی‌ام