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  • Lest the cadi should recognise her by her speech and remember his past misfortune.
  • تا بنشناسد ز گفتن قاضیش  ** یاد ناید از بلای ماضیش 

  • The coquettish glances of a woman are fascinating, but that (fascination) is increased a hundredfold by her voice.
  • هست فتنه غمره‌ی غماز زن  ** لیک آن صدتو شود ز آواز زن 

  • Since she durst not raise (utter) a sound, the wife's ogling looks alone were of no avail.
  • چون نمی‌توانست آوازی فراشت  ** غمزه‌ی تنهای زن سودی نداشت 

  • “Go,” said the cadi, “and fetch the defendant, that I may settle thy quarrel with him.”
  • گفت قاضی رو تو خصمت را بیار  ** تا دهم کار ترا با او قرار 

  • (When) Júhí arrived, the cadi did not recognise him at once, for at (their first) meeting he was in the chest. 4560
  • جوحی آمد قاضیش نشناخت زود  ** کو به وقت لقیه در صندوق بود 

  • He had (only) heard his voice outside, during the buying and selling and chaffering.
  • زو شنیده بود آواز از برون  ** در شری و بیع و در نقص و فزون 

  • He said (to Júhí), “Why won't you give your wife all the money she needs for expenses?” He replied, “I am devoted with (heart and) soul to the religious law,
  • گفت نفقه‌ی زن چرا ندهی تمام  ** گفت از جان شرع را هستم غلام 

  • But if I die I do not possess (enough to pay for) the shroud: I am bankrupt in this game, I have gambled everything away.”
  • لیک اگر میرم ندارم من کفن  ** مفلس این لعبم و شش پنج زن 

  • From (hearing) these words the cadi, as it happened, recognised him and called to mind his roguery and the trick he had played.
  • زین سخن قاضی مگر بشناختش  ** یاد آورد آن دغل وان باختش 

  • “You played that game with me,” he said: “last year you put me out of action. 4565
  • گفت آن شش پنج با من باختی  ** پار اندر شش درم انداختی 

  • My turn is past: this year try that gamble on some one else and keep your hands off me!”
  • نوبت من رفت امسال آن قمار  ** با دگر کس باز دست از من بدار 

  • The knower of God has been isolated from the six (directions) and the five (senses): (necessarily, therefore), he has become on his guard against the sixes and fives of the backgammon (played by the World and the Devil).
  • از شش و از پنج عارف گشت فرد  ** محترز گشتست زین شش پنج نرد 

  • He has escaped from the five senses and the six directions: he has made you acquainted with (what lies) beyond all that.
  • رست او از پنج حس و شش جهت  ** از ورای آن همه کرد آگهت 

  • His intimations are the intimations of Eternity: he has transcended all conceptions and withdrawn himself apart.
  • شد اشاراتش اشارات ازل  ** جاوز الاوهام طرا و اعتزل 

  • Unless he is outside of this hexagonal well, how should he bring up a Joseph from the inside (of it)? 4570
  • زین چه شش گوشه گر نبود برون  ** چون بر آرد یوسفی را از درون 

  • He is one who goes to draw water above the unpillared firmament, (while) his body, like a bucket, is (low down) in the well, helping (to rescue the fallen).
  • واردی بالای چرخ بی ستن  ** جسم او چون دلو در چه چاره کن 

  • The Josephs cling to his bucket, escape from the well, and become kings of Egypt.
  • یوسفان چنگال در دلوش زده  ** رسته از چاه و شه مصری شده 

  • The other buckets seek water from the well: his bucket has no concern with the water, it seeks (only) friends (in trouble).
  • دلوهای دیگر از چه آب‌جو  ** دلو او فارغ ز آب اصحاب‌جو 

  • The (other) buckets plunge into the water for food: his bucket is the food and life of the soul of the fish.
  • دلوها غواص آب از بهر قوت  ** دلو او قوت و حیات جان حوت 

  • The (other) buckets are attached to the lofty wheel (of Fortune): his bucket is (held) in two Almighty fingers. 4575
  • دلوها وابسته‌ی چرخ بلند  ** دلو او در اصبعین زورمند 

  • What bucket and what cord and what wheel? This is a very weak comparison, O pasha.
  • دلو چه و حبل چه و چرخ چی  ** این مثال بس رکیکست ای اچی 

  • (But) whence shall I get a comparison that is without frailty? One to match him (the knower of God) will not come, and never has come, (to hand).
  • از کجا آرم مثالی بی‌شکست  ** کفو آن نه آید و نه آمدست 

  • (He is) a hundred thousand men concealed in a single man, a hundred bows and arrows enclosed in a single blowpipe;
  • صد هزاران مرد پنهان در یکی  ** صد کمان و تیر درج ناوکی 

  • A (type of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, a temptation (for the ignorant), a hundred thousand stacks (of grain) in a handful.
  • ما رمیت اذ رمیتی فتنه‌ای  ** صد هزاران خرمن اندر حفنه‌ای 

  • (He is) a sun hidden in a mote: suddenly that mote opens its mouth (and reveals the sun). 4580
  • آفتابی در یکی ذره نهان  ** ناگهان آن ذره بگشاید دهان