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  • He averts his face from their guidance because he does not see their gift with his eye.
  • رو همی گرداند از ارشادشان  ** که نمی‌بیند به دیده دادشان 

  • If there were a passage from his ear to his throat, the hidden meaning of their admonition would have entered his inward parts. 3925
  • گر ز گوشش تا به حلقش ره بدی  ** سر نصح اندر درونشان در شدی 

  • Inasmuch as his spirit is wholly fire, not light, who would throw anything but husks into a blazing fire?
  • چون همه نارست جانش نیست نور  ** که افکند در نار سوزان جز قشور 

  • The kernel remains outside and the husk, (consisting of mere) words, goes (in): how should the stomach be made warm and stout by husks?
  • مغز بیرون ماند و قشر گفت رفت  ** کی شود از قشر معده گرم و زفت 

  • The Fire of Hell torments only the husks: the Fire has nothing to do with any kernel;
  • نار دوزخ جز که قشر افشار نیست  ** نار را با هیچ مغزی کار نیست 

  • And if a fire should dart its flames at the kernel, know that ’tis in order to cook it, not to burn it.
  • ور بود بر مغز ناری شعله‌زن  ** بهر پختن دان نه بهر سوختن 

  • So long as God is the Wise, know that this law is perpetual (both) in the past and in the time that has not (yet) come. 3930
  • تا که باشد حق حکیم این قاعده  ** مستمر دان در گذشته و نامده 

  • The pure kernels and (also) the husks are pardoned by Him: how, then, should He burn the kernel? Far (be it) from Him!
  • مغز نغز و قشرها مغفور ازو  ** مغز را پس چون بسوزد دور ازو 

  • If in His grace He beat the head of him (who resembles the husk), he (such an one) will feel an eager desire for the red wine;
  • از عنایت گر بکوبد بر سرش  ** اشتها آید شراب احمرش 

  • And if He do not beat him, he will remain, like the jurist, with his mouth closed against the potations and festivity of these (spiritual) kings.
  • ور نکوبد ماند او بسته‌دهان  ** چون فقیه از شرب و بزم این شهان 

  • The king said to his cup-bearer, “O well-conducted (youth), why art thou silent? Give (it him) and put him in good humour.”
  • گفت شه با ساقیش ای نیک‌پی  ** چه خموشی ده به طبعش آر هی 

  • Over every mind there is a hidden Ruler, (who) cunningly diverts from his purpose whomsoever He will. 3935
  • هست پنهان حاکمی بر هر خرد  ** هرکه را خواهد به فن از سر برد 

  • The sun in the East and his radiance are bound like captives in His chain.
  • آفتاب مشرق و تنویر او  ** چون اسیران بسته در زنجیر او 

  • He causes the (celestial) sphere to revolve immediately when He chants half of a cunning spell in its brain.
  • چرخ را چرخ اندر آرد در زمن  ** چون بخواند در دماغش نیم فن 

  • The mind which dominates another mind has (obtains) the dice (of victory) from Him: He is the Master-player.
  • عقل کو عقل دگر را سخره کرد  ** مهره زو دارد ویست استاد نرد 

  • He (the cup-bearer) gave him (the jurist) several cuffs on the head, saying, “Take (the cup)!” The tormented man drained it in dread of (receiving further) blows.
  • چند سیلی بر سرش زد گفت گیر  ** در کشید از بیم سیلی آن زحیر 

  • He became tipsy and merry and smiling (gay) as a garden: he began to act like a boon-companion and tell ridiculous stories and make jokes. 3940
  • مست گشت و شاد و خندان شد چو باغ  ** در ندیمی و مضاحک رفت و لاغ 

  • He became pot-valiant and jolly and snapped his fingers: in latrinam ivit ut mingeret. [He became pot-valiant and jolly and snapped his fingers: he went to the latrine in order to urinate.]
  • شیرگیر و خوش شد انگشتک بزد  ** سوی مبرز رفت تا میزک کند 

  • Erat in latrina puella lunae similis, venustissima, una de regis ancillis. [A maiden as (lovely as) the (full) moon was in the latrine, very beautiful and one of the maidservants of the king.]
  • یک کنیزک بود در مبرز چو ماه  ** سخت زیبا و ز قرناقان شاه 

  • When he espied her, his mouth gaped in amazement, his reason fled and his body was ready for violence.
  • چون بدید او را دهانش باز ماند  ** عقل رفت و تن ستم‌پرداز ماند 

  • Per aeva coelebs vixerat: extemplo cupidine et furore accensus puellae manus injecit. [He had been a bachelor (for) ages: passionate and drunk (with lust), he immediately grabbed the maidservant (with his) two hands.]
  • عمرها بوده عزب مشتاق و مست  ** بر کنیزک در زمان در زد دو دست 

  • Valde trepidavit puella et clamorem sustulit: ei non poterat resistere, operam perdidit. [The maiden trembled greatly and raised a clamor: she could not oppose him and (her resistance) had no benefit.] 3945
  • بس طپید آن دختر و نعره فراشت  ** بر نیامد با وی و سودی نداشت 

  • Femina viro in manus tempore congressus tradita is like dough in the hands of a baker. [A woman in the hands of a man at the moment of (such an) encounter is like dough in the hands of a baker.]
  • زن به دست مرد در وقت لقا  ** چون خمیر آمد به دست نانبا 

  • He kneads it now gently, now roughly, and makes it groan under (the thumps of) his fist;
  • بسرشد گاهیش نرم و گه درشت  ** زو بر آرد چاق چاقی زیر مشت 

  • Now he draws it out flat on a board (rolling-pin), now for a bit he rolls it up;
  • گاه پهنش واکشد بر تخته‌ای  ** درهمش آرد گهی یک لخته‌ای