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  • The Jinní is (created) from fire, (but) how should he resemble fire? The cloud is (produced) from vapour, but it is not like vapour.
  • جنی از نارست کی ماند به نار  ** از بخارست ابر و نبود چون بخار 

  • Jesus was produced from the breath of Gabriel, (but) when was he (ever) like him in form or comparable (to him in that respect)?
  • از دم جبریل عیسی شد پدید  ** کی به صورت هم‌چو او بد یا ندید 

  • Adam is (made) of earth, (but) how should he resemble earth? No grape resembles the vine.
  • آدم از خاکست کی ماند به خاک  ** هیچ انگوری نمی‌ماند به تاک 

  • How should robbery look like the foot of the gallows? How should piety be like the everlasting abode (Paradise)?
  • کی بود دزدی به شکل پای‌دار  ** کی بود طاعت چو خلد پایدار 

  • No origin resembles its product; therefore thou canst not know the origin of (thy) pain and headache. 3985
  • هیچ اصلی نیست مانند اثر  ** پس ندانی اصل رنج و درد سر 

  • But this punishment is not without an origin: how should God inflict pain without any sin (having been committed)?
  • لیک بی‌اصلی نباشدت این جزا  ** بی‌گناهی کی برنجاند خدا 

  • That which is the origin and bringer-on of that (painful) thing—if it (the painful thing) does not resemble it, still it is (produced) from it.
  • آنچ اصلست و کشنده‌ی آن شی است  ** گر نمی‌ماند بوی هم از وی است 

  • Know, then, that thy pain is the result of some lapse (and that) this woe with which thou art stricken arises from some lust.
  • پس بدان رنجت نتیجه‌ی زلتیست  ** آفت این ضربتت از شهوتیست 

  • If thou canst not discern that sin by means of consideration, at once make humble entreaty and seek pardon (from God).
  • گر ندانی آن گنه را ز اعتبار  ** زود زاری کن طلب کن اغتفار 

  • Prostrate thyself a hundred times and keep saying, “O God, this pain is nothing but my due and desert. 3990
  • سجده کن صد بار می‌گوی ای خدا  ** نیست این غم غیر درخورد و سزا 

  • O Thou who art transcendent in holiness and free from (all) injustice and oppression, how shouldst Thou inflict grief and pain upon the soul when it has not sinned?
  • ای تو سبحان پاک از ظلم و ستم  ** کی دهی بی‌جرم جان را درد و غم 

  • I do not know my sin definitely, but (I know that) there must be a sin (to account) for the anguish.
  • من معین می‌ندانم جرم را  ** لیک هم جرمی بباید گرم را 

  • Since Thou hast concealed the cause from my consideration, do Thou always keep my sin concealed (from others);
  • چون بپوشیدی سبب را ز اعتبار  ** دایما آن جرم را پوشیده دار 

  • For it would be retribution to disclose my sin, so that my thievery (rascality) should be made manifest by punishment.”
  • که جزا اظهار جرم من بود  ** کز سیاست دزدیم ظاهر شود 

  • How the monarch, on being acquainted with that act of treachery, resolved to conceal and pardon it and give her (the slave-girl) to him (the captain), and recognised that the tribulation was a punishment inflicted on him and was (the result of) his attempt (to obtain the slave-girl) and the wrong which he had done to the lord of Mawsil; for “and whoso doeth evil, it is against himself” and “lo, thy Lord is on the watch”; and how he feared that, if he should avenge himself, the vengeance would recoil on his own head, as this injustice and greed (of his) had (already) recoiled upon him.
  • عزم کردن شاه چون واقف شد بر آن خیانت کی بپوشاند و عفو کند و او را به او دهد و دانست کی آن فتنه جزای او بود و قصد او بود و ظلم او بر صاحب موصل کی و من اساء فعلیها و ان ربک لبالمرصاد و ترسیدن کی اگر انتقام کشد آن انتقام هم بر سر او آید چنانک این ظلم و طمع بر سرش آمد 

  • The monarch came to himself. He asked pardon (of God) and confessed his sin and lapse and persistence (in wrong-doing). 3995
  • شاه با خود آمد استغفار کرد  ** یاد جرم و زلت و اصرار کرد 

  • He said to himself, “The retribution for what I did to certain persons has reached (overtaken) my soul.
  • گفت با خود آنچ کردم با کسان  ** شد جزای آن به جان من رسان 

  • From (pride of) power I made an attempt on the concubine of another: that (injustice) recoiled upon me and I fell into the pit (which I had dug).
  • قصد جفت دیگران کردم ز جاه  ** بر من آمد آن و افتادم به چاه 

  • I knocked at the door of another person's house: consequently he knocked at the door of my house.”
  • من در خانه‌ی کسی دیگر زدم  ** او در خانه‌ی مرا زد لاجرم 

  • Whoever seeks to commit adultery with (other) people's wives, know that he is a pimp to his own wife;
  • هر که با اهل کسان شد فسق‌جو  ** اهل خود را دان که قوادست او 

  • For that (adultery) is requited by the like, since the retribution for an evil act is an act like unto it. 4000
  • زانک مثل آن جزای آن شود  ** چون جزای سیه مثلش بود 

  • Inasmuch as you have made a cord and pulled one like it towards yourself, you are a wittol and worse.
  • چون سبب کردی کشیدی سوی خویش  ** مثل آن را پس تو دیوثی و بیش 

  • “I took the king of Mawsil's concubine from him by force, (so) she was soon taken by force from me too.
  • غصب کردم از شه موصل کنیز  ** غصب کردند از من او را زود نیز 

  • My treacherous deeds made a traitor of him who was my trusted friend and servant.
  • او کامین من بد و لالای من  ** خاینش کرد آن خیانتهای من 

  • ’Tis no time to inflict punishment (for the injury) and avenge myself: I prepared the disaster with my own hand.
  • نیست وقت کین‌گزاری و انتقام  ** من به دست خویش کردم کار خام 

  • If I wreak vengeance on the Amír and the woman, that trespass also will come (recoil) on my head, 4005
  • گر کشم کینه بر آن میر و حرم  ** آن تعدی هم بیاید بر سرم