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1204-1228

  • The veil before the face of the Sun, what is it but excess of brilliance and intensity of splendour?
  • چیست پرده پیش روی آفتاب  ** جز فزونی شعشعه و تیزی تاب 

  • The veil over the Sun is just the Light of the Lord: the bat and the night have no lot therein. 1205
  • پرده‌ی خورشید هم نور ربست  ** بی‌نصیب از وی خفاشست و شبست 

  • Inasmuch as both (of them) have remained far (from the Sun) and veiled (from it), they have remained either black-faced (like Night) or cold (like the bat).
  • هر دو چون در بعد و پرده مانده‌اند  ** یا سیه‌رو یا فسرده مانده‌اند 

  • Since thou hast written part of the story of the New-moon (Hilál), (now) put into words the tale of the Full-moon.
  • چون نبشتی بعضی از قصه‌ی هلال  ** داستان بدر آر اندر مقال 

  • The New-moon and the Full-moon have oneness (with each other): they are far from duality and from imperfection and corruption.
  • آن هلال و بدر دارند اتحاد  ** از دوی دورند و از نقص و فساد 

  • The new-moon is inwardly free from imperfection: its apparent imperfection is (due to its) increasing gradually.
  • آن هلال از نقص در باطن بریست  ** آن به ظاهر نقص تدریج آوریست 

  • Night by night it gives a lesson in gradualness, and with deliberation it produces relief (for itself). 1210
  • درس گوید شب به شب تدریج را  ** در تانی بر دهد تفریج را 

  • With deliberation it says, “O hasty fool, (only) step by step can one mount to the roof.”
  • در تانی گوید ای عجول خام  ** پایه‌پایه بر توان رفتن به بام 

  • Let the cooking-pot boil gradually, as a skilful (cook) does: the stew boiled in a mad hurry is of no use.
  • دیگ را تدریج و استادانه جوش  ** کار ناید قلیه‌ی دیوانه جوش 

  • Was not God able to create heaven in one moment by (the word) “Be”? Without any doubt (He was).
  • حق نه قادر بود بر خلق فلک  ** در یکی لحظه به کن بی‌هیچ شک 

  • Why, then, O seeker of instruction, did He extend (the time) for it to six days, every day (being as long as) a thousand years?
  • پس چرا شش روز آن را درکشید  ** کل یوم الف عام ای مستفید 

  • Wherefore is the creation of a child (completed) in nine months? Because gradualness is a characteristic of (the action of) that King. 1215
  • خلقت طفل از چه اندر نه مه‌است  ** زانک تدریج از شعار آن شه‌است 

  • Why was (the time occupied in) the creation of Adam forty mornings? (Because) He (God) was adding (perfections) to that clay little by little,
  • خلقت آدم چرا چل صبح بود  ** اندر آن گل اندک‌اندک می‌فزود 

  • Not like you, O foolish one, who have rushed forward just now: you are a child, and you have made yourself out to be an Elder.
  • نه چو تو ای خام که اکنون تاختی  ** طفلی و خود را تو شیخی ساختی 

  • You have run up, like a gourd, to the top of all, (but) where is the (spiritual) warfare and combat to sustain you?
  • بر دویدی چون کدو فوق همه  ** کو ترا پای جهاد و ملحمه 

  • You have rested on trees and walls for support: you have climbed up like a pumpkin, O little baldhead.
  • تکیه کردی بر درختان و جدار  ** بر شدی ای اقرعک هم قرع‌وار 

  • If at first you mounted on a tall cypress, yet in the end you are dry and pulpless and empty. 1220
  • اول ار شد مرکبت سرو سهی  ** لیک آخر خشک و بی‌مغزی تهی 

  • Your green (fresh) colour soon turned yellow (faded), O pumpkin, for it was derived from rouge, it was not original.
  • رنگ سبزت زرد شد ای قرع زود  ** زانک از گلگونه بود اصلی نبود 

  • Story of the old woman who used to depilate and rouge her ugly face, though it could never be put right and become pleasing.
  • داستان آن عجوزه کی روی زشت خویشتن را جندره و گلگونه می‌ساخت و ساخته نمی‌شد و پذیرا نمی‌آمد 

  • There was a decrepit old woman aged ninety years, her face covered with wrinkles and her complexion (yellow as) saffron.
  • بود کمپیری نودساله کلان  ** پر تشنج روی و رنگش زعفران 

  • Her face was in folds like the surface of a traveller's food-wallet, but there remained in her the passionate desire for a husband.
  • چون سر سفره رخ او توی توی  ** لیک در وی بود مانده عشق شوی 

  • Her teeth had dropped out and her hair had become (white) as milk: her figure was (bent) like a bow, and every sense in her was decayed.
  • ریخت دندانهاش و مو چون شیر شد  ** قد کمان و هر حسش تغییر شد 

  • Her passion for a husband and her lust and desire were (there) in full (force): the passion for snaring (was there), though the trap had fallen to pieces. 1225
  • عشق شوی و شهوت و حرصش تمام  ** عشق صید و پاره‌پاره گشته دام 

  • (She was like) a cock that crows at the wrong time, a road that leads nowhere, a big fire beneath an empty kettle;
  • مرغ بی‌هنگام و راه بی‌رهی  ** آتشی پر در بن دیگ تهی 

  • (Like one who is) exceedingly fond of the race-course, but has no horse and no means of running; (or) exceedingly fond of piping, but having neither lip nor pipe.
  • عاشق میدان و اسپ و پای نی  ** عاشق زمر و لب و سرنای نی 

  • May (even) Jews have no (such) cupidity in (their) old age! Oh, (how) miserable is he on whom God hath bestowed this cupidity!
  • حرص در پیری جهودان را مباد  ** ای شقیی که خداش این حرص داد