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2374-2398

  • The clever ones are content with an ingenious device; the simple ones have gone (away) from the artifice to rest in the Artificer,
  • زیرکان با صنعتی قانع شده  ** ابلهان از صنع در صانع شده 

  • Because at breakfast time a mother will have laid the little child’s hands and feet (in repose) on her bosom. 2375
  • زانک طفل خرد را مادر نهار  ** دست و پا باشد نهاده بر کنار 

  • Story of the three travellers—a Moslem, a Christian, and a Jew— who obtained (a gift of) some food at a hostelry. The Christian and the Jew had already eaten their fill, so they said, “Let us eat this food to-morrow.” The Moslem was fasting, and he remained hungry because he was overpowered (by his companions).
  • حکایت آن سه مسافر مسلمان و ترسا و جهود و آن کی به منزل قوتی یافتند و ترسا و جهود سیر بودند گفتند این قوت را فردا خوریم مسلمان صایم بود گرسنه ماند از آنک مغلوب بود 

  • Here listen to a story, O son, in order that you may not suffer affliction in (relying upon) talent.
  • یک حکایت بشنو اینجا ای پسر  ** تا نگردی ممتحن اندر هنر 

  • As it happened, a Jew and a true believer and a Christian travelled together on a journey.
  • آن جهود و مومن و ترسا مگر  ** همرهی کردند با هم در سفر 

  • A true believer travelled along with two miscreants, like reason (associated) with a carnal soul and Devil.
  • با دو گمره همره آمد مومنی  ** چون خرد با نفس و با آهرمنی 

  • In travel the man of Merv and the man of Rayy meet one another as companions on the road and at table.
  • مرغزی و رازی افتند از سفر  ** همره و هم‌سفره پیش هم‌دگر 

  • Crow and owl and falcon come (as captives) into the (same) cage: the holy and the irreligious become mates in prison. 2380
  • در قفص افتند زاغ و جغد و باز  ** جفت شد در حبس پاک و بی‌نماز 

  • At night Easterners and Westerners and Transoxanians make their abode in the same caravanseray.
  • کرده منزل شب به یک کاروانسرا  ** اهل شرق و اهل غرب و ما ورا 

  • Small and great (folk) remain together for days in the caravanseray because of frost and snow.
  • مانده در کاروانسرا خرد و شگرف  ** روزها با هم ز سرما و ز برف 

  • As soon as the road is opened and the obstacle removed, they separate and every one goes in a (different) direction.
  • چون گشاده شد ره و بگشاد بند  ** بسکلند و هر یکی جایی روند 

  • When sovereign Reason breaks the cage, all the birds fly away, each one to a (different) quarter.
  • چون قفس را بشکند شاه خرد  ** جمع مرغان هر یکی سویی پرد 

  • Before this (deliverance) each one, full of longing and lament, spreads its wings towards its destination, in desire for its mate. 2385
  • پر گشاید پیش ازین بر شوق و یاد  ** در هوای جنس خود سوی معاد 

  • At every moment it spreads its wings with tears and sighs, but it has no room or way to fly.
  • پر گشاید هر دمی با اشک و آه  ** لیک پریدن ندارد روی و راه 

  • (As soon as) way is made, each one flies like the wind towards that in remembrance of which it spread its wings.
  • راه شد هر یک پرد مانند باد  ** سوی آن کز یاد آن پر می‌گشاد 

  • Its way, when it gains the opportunity, is towards the region whither its tears and sighs were (directed).
  • آن طرف که بود اشک و آه او  ** چونک فرصت یافت باشد راه او 

  • Consider your own body: from what places were these corporeal parts (elements and faculties) collected in the body—
  • در تن خود بنگر این اجزای تن  ** از کجاها گرد آمد در بدن 

  • Watery and earthen and airy and fiery, celestial and terrestrial, (some) of Rúm and (some) of Kash. 2390
  • آبی و خاکی و بادی و آتشی  ** عرشی و فرشی و رومی و گشی 

  • In this (bodily) caravanseray one and all, from fear of the snow, have closed their eyes to the hope of returning (to their final destination).
  • از امید عود هر یک بسته طرف  ** اندرین کاروانسرا از بیم برف 

  • The various snows are (symbolise) the congelation of every inanimate thing in the winter of farness from that Sun of justice.
  • برف گوناگون جمود هر جماد  ** در شتای بعد آن خورشید داد 

  • (But) when the heat of the angry Sun flames (forth), the mountain becomes now (like) sand and now (like) wool.
  • چون بتابد تف آن خورشید جشم  ** کوه گردد گاه ریگ و گاه پشم 

  • The gross inanimate things dissolve, like the dissolution of the body at the hour of the spirit's departure.
  • در گداز آید جمادات گران  ** چون گداز تن به وقت نقل جان 

  • When these three fellow-travellers arrived at a certain hostelry, a man of fortune brought them (some) halwá (sweetmeat) as a gift. 2395
  • چون رسیدند این سه همره منزلی  ** هدیه‌شان آورد حلوا مقبلی 

  • A benefactor brought to the three strangers (some) halwá from the kitchen of Lo, I am near.
  • برد حلوا پیش آن هر سه غریب  ** محسنی از مطبخ انی قریب 

  • One who had expectation of (earning) the (Divine) reward brought (to them) warm bread and a dish of halwá made with honey.
  • نان گرم و صحن حلوای عسل  ** برد آنک در ثوابش بود امل 

  • Intelligence and culture are characteristic of townsmen; hospitality and entertainment (of guests) are characteristic of tent-dwellers.
  • الکیاسه والادب لاهل المدر  ** الضیافه والقری لاهل الوبر