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1656-1680

  • If any one have suave eloquence, hearing draws it out: the teacher's enthusiasm and energy are (derived) from the boy (whom he teaches).
  • جذب سمعست ار کسی را خوش لبیست  ** گرمی و جد معلم از صبیست 

  • When the harpist who plays the four-and-twenty (musical modes) finds no ear (to listen), his harp becomes a burden;
  • چنگیی را کو نوازد بیست و چار  ** چون نیابد گوش گردد چنگ بار 

  • Neither ditty nor ode comes into his memory: his ten fingers will not get to work.
  • نه حراره یادش آید نه غزل  ** نه ده انگشتش بجنبد در عمل 

  • If there were no ears to receive (the message from) the Unseen, no announcer (prophet) would have brought a Revelation from Heaven;
  • گر نبودی گوشهای غیب‌گیر  ** وحی ناوردی ز گردون یک بشیر 

  • And if there were no eyes to see the works of God, neither would the sky have revolved nor would the earth have smiled (been gay with verdure). 1660
  • ور نبودی دیده‌های صنع‌بین  ** نه فلک گشتی نه خندیدی زمین 

  • The declaration lawláka (but for thee) means this, that the (whole) affair (of creation) is for the sake of the piercing eye and the seer.
  • آن دم لولاک این باشد که کار  ** از برای چشم تیزست و نظار 

  • How should the vulgar, in their love for bedfellow and dishes (of food), have any care for love of God's work?
  • عامه را از عشق هم‌خوابه و طبق  ** کی بود پروای عشق صنع حق 

  • You do not pour tutmáj broth into a trough till there are a number of greedy dogs to drink it.
  • آب تتماجی نریزی در تغار  ** تا سگی چندی نباشد طعمه‌خوار 

  • Go, be the Cave-dog of His Lordship in order that His election (of you) may deliver you from this trough.
  • رو سگ کهف خداوندیش باش  ** تا رهاند زین تغارت اصطفاش 

  • When he (the story-teller) related the pitiless thefts which those tailors commit in secret, 1665
  • چونک دزدیهای بی‌رحمانه گفت  ** کی کنند آن درزیان اندر نهفت 

  • A Turk from Khitá (who was) amongst the crowd (audience) was exceedingly annoyed by that exposure.
  • اندر آن هنگامه ترکی از خطا  ** سخت طیره شد ز کشف آن غطا 

  • At night-time he (the story-teller) was exposing those secrets (of the tailors) for the benefit of the intelligent (listeners), as (plainly as secrets shall be exposed) on the Day of Resurrection.
  • شب چو روز رستخیز آن رازها  ** کشف می‌کرد از پی اهل نهی 

  • Wherever you come to close quarters with a wrangle, you will see there two enemies (engaged) in exposing (each other's) secret.
  • هر کجا آیی تو در جنگی فراز  ** بینی آنجا دو عدو در کشف راز 

  • Know that that hour (of quarrel) is (like) the (hour of the) Last Judgement mentioned (in the Qur’án), and know that the throat which tells the secret is (like) the trumpet (of Isráfíl);
  • آن زمان را محشر مذکور دان  ** وان گلوی رازگو را صور دان 

  • For God hath provided the motives of anger and (thus) hath cause those shameful things to be divulged. 1670
  • که خدا اسباب خشمی ساختست  ** وآن فضایح را بکوی انداختست 

  • When he (the story-teller) had related many instances of the perfidy of tailors, the Turk became annoyed and angry and aggrieved,
  • بس که غدر درزیان را ذکر کرد  ** حیف آمد ترک را و خشم و درد 

  • And said, ‘O story-teller, in your city who is the greatest expert in this (kind of) deceit and fraud?’
  • گفت ای قصاص در شهر شما  ** کیست استاتر درین مکر و دغا 

  • [How the Turk boasted and wagered that the tailor would not be able to steal anything from him.]
  • دعوی کردن ترک و گرو بستن او کی درزی از من چیزی نتواند بردن 

  • He replied, ‘There is a tailor named Pír-i Shush who beats (all other) folk in light-fingeredness and thievery.’
  • گفت خیاطیست نامش پور شش  ** اندرین چستی و دزدی خلق‌کش 

  • ‘I warrant,’ said he (the Turk), ‘that (even) with a hundred efforts he will not be able to take away a coil of thread in my presence.’
  • گفت من ضامن که با صد اضطراب  ** او نیارد برد پیشم رشته‌تاب 

  • Then they told him, ‘Cleverer persons than you have been checkmated by him: do not soar (too high) in your pretensions. 1675
  • پس بگفتندش که از تو چست‌تر  ** مات او گشتند در دعوی مپر 

  • Go to, be not so deluded by your intelligence, else you will be lost in his wiles.’
  • رو به عقل خود چنین غره مباش  ** که شوی یاوه تو در تزویرهاش 

  • The Turk became (still) hotter and made a wager there (and then) that he (the tailor) would not be able to rob (him of anything) either old or new.
  • گرم‌تر شد ترک و بست آنجا گرو  ** که نیارد برد نی کهنه نی نو 

  • Those who flattered his hopes made him hotter (than before): immediately he wagered and declared the stakes,
  • مطمعانش گرم‌تر کردند زود  ** او گرو بست و رهان را بر گشود 

  • Saying, ‘I will pay this Arab horse of mine as a forfeit if he artfully steals my stuff;
  • که گرو این مرکب تازی من  ** بدهم ار دزدد قماشم او به فن 

  • And if he cannot rob (me) I shall receive a horse from you (as an equivalent) for the first stake.’ 1680
  • ور نتواند برد اسپی از شما  ** وا ستانم بهر رهن مبتدا