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  • His wife ate it up with kabáb and wine: (when) the man came in, she put him off with useless words.
  • زن بخوردش با کباب و با شراب  ** مرد آمد گفت دفع ناصواب 

  • The man said to her, “Where is the meat? The guest has arrived: one must set nice food before a guest.”
  • مرد گفتش گوشت کو مهمان رسید  ** پیش مهمان لوت می‌باید کشید 

  • “This cat has eaten the meat,” she replied: “hey, go and buy some more meat if you can!”
  • گفت زن این گربه خورد آن گوشت را  ** گوشت دیگر خر اگر باشد هلا 

  • He said (to the servant), “O Aybak, fetch the balance: I will weigh the cat. 3415
  • گفت ای ایبک ترازو را بیار  ** گربه را من بر کشم اندر عیار 

  • He weighed her. The cat was half a mann. Then the man said, “O deceitful wife,
  • بر کشیدش بود گربه نیم من  ** پس بگفت آن مرد کای محتال زن 

  • The meat was half a mann and one sitír over; the cat is just half a mann, my lady.
  • گوشت نیم من بود و افزون یک ستیر  ** هست گربه نیم‌من هم ای ستیر 

  • If this is the cat, then where is the meat? Or, if this is the meat, where is the cat? Search (for her)!”
  • این اگر گربه‌ست پس آن گوشت کو  ** ور بود این گوشت گربه کو بجو 

  • If Báyazíd is this (body), what is that spirit? And if he is that spirit, who is this (bodily) image?
  • بایزید ار این بود آن روح چیست  ** ور وی آن روحست این تصویر کیست 

  • ’Tis bewilderment on bewilderment. O my friend, (the solution of) this (problem) is not your affair, nor is it mine either. 3420
  • حیرت اندر حیرتست ای یار من  ** این نه کار تست و نه هم کار من 

  • He is both (spirit and body), but in the corn-crop the grain is fundamental, while the stalk is derivative.
  • هر دو او باشد ولیک از ریع زرع  ** دانه باشد اصل و آن که پره فرع 

  • (The Divine) Wisdom has bound these contraries together: O butcher, this fleshy thigh-bone goes along with the neck.
  • حکمت این اضداد را با هم ببست  ** ای قصاب این گردران با گردنست 

  • The spirit cannot function without the body; your body is frozen (inanimate) and cold (inert) without the spirit.
  • روح بی‌قالب نداند کار کرد  ** قالبت بی‌جان فسرده بود و سرد 

  • Your body is visible, while your spirit is hidden from view: the business of the world is conducted by means of them both.
  • قالبت پیدا و آن جانت نهان  ** راست شد زین هر دو اسباب جهان 

  • If you throw earth at (some one's) head, his head will not be broken; if you throw water at his head, it will not be broken. 3425
  • خاک را بر سر زنی سر نشکند  ** آب را بر سر زنی در نشکند 

  • If you wish to break his head, you bring the earth and the water into contact with each other (and make a lump of clay).
  • گر تو می‌خواهی که سر را بشکنی  ** آب را و خاک را بر هم زنی 

  • When you have broken your head, its water (the spirit) returns to its source, and earth returns to earth on the day of separation.
  • چون شکستی سر رود آبش به اصل  ** خاک سوی خاک آید روز فصل 

  • The providential purpose that God had—namely, humble supplication or obstinate contumacy—was fulfilled by means of the marriage (of body and spirit).
  • حکمتی که بود حق را ز ازدواج  ** گشت حاصل از نیاز و از لجاج 

  • Then (afterwards) there are other marriages that no ear hath heard and no eye hath seen.
  • باشد آنگه ازدواجات دگر  ** لا سمع اذن و لا عین بصر 

  • If the ear had heard, how should the ear have remained (in action) or how should it have apprehended words any more? 3430
  • گر شنیدی اذن کی ماندی اذن  ** یا کجا کردی دگر ضبط سخن 

  • If the snow and ice were to behold the sun, they would despair of (retaining their) iciness;
  • گر بدیدی برف و یخ خورشید را  ** از یخی برداشتی اومید را 

  • They would become water (formless and) devoid of roots and knobs: the air, David-like, would make of the water a mail-coat (of ripples),
  • آب گشتی بی‌عروق و بی‌گره  ** ز آب داود هوا کردی زره 

  • And then it (the water) would become a life-giving medicine for every tree: every tree (would be made) fortunate by its advent.
  • پس شدی درمان جان هر درخت  ** هر درختی از قدومش نیک‌بخت 

  • (But) the frozen ice that remains (locked) within itself cries to the trees,Touch me not!
  • آن یخی بفسرده در خود مانده  ** لا مساسی با درختان خوانده 

  • Its body makes none its friend nor is it made a friend by any: its portion is naught but miserly selfishness. 3435
  • لیس یالف لیس یلف جسمه  ** لیس الا شح نفس قسمه 

  • It is not wasted (entirely), the heart is refreshed by it; but it is not the herald and lord of (the vernal) greenery.
  • نیست ضایع زو شود تازه جگر  ** لیک نبود پیک و سلطان خضر