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4890-4914

  • ’Tis unquestionable that every tongue is a curtain over the heart: when the curtain is moved, the mysteries (hidden behind it) reach us. 4890
  • بی‌گمان که هر زبان پرده‌ی دلست  ** چون بجنبد پرده سرها واصلست 

  • A little curtain like a slice of roast-meat conceals the forms of a hundred suns.
  • پرده‌ی کوچک چو یک شرحه کباب  ** می‌بپوشد صورت صد آفتاب 

  • Even if the oral explanation is false, yet the scent (the impression produced by the speaker) makes one acquainted with his veracity or falsehood.
  • گر بیان نطق کاذب نیز هست  ** لیک بوی از صدق و کذبش مخبرست 

  • The zephyr that comes from a garden is distinct from the simoom (pestilential wind) of the ash-heap.
  • آن نسیمی که بیایدت از چمن  ** هست پیدا از سموم گولخن 

  • The scents of truth and fool-catching (plausible) falsehood are apparent in the breath, like musk and garlic.
  • بوی صدق و بوی کذب گول‌گیر  ** هست پیدا در نفس چون مشک و سیر 

  • If you cannot distinguish a (sincere) friend from a double-hearted person, complain of your own rotten sense of smell. 4895
  • گر ندانی یار را از ده‌دله  ** از مشام فاسد خود کن گله 

  • The voices of poltroons and brave courageous men are as distinct as the characteristics of the fox and the lion.
  • بانگ حیزان و شجاعان دلیر  ** هست پیدا چون فن روباه و شیر 

  • Or, (again), the tongue is just like the lid of a cooking-pot: when it is moved you know what sort of food is inside;
  • یا زبان هم‌چون سر دیگست راست  ** چون بجنبد تو بدانی چه اباست 

  • (But) one whose sense (of smell) is keen can tell by the vapour (issuing from the closed pot) whether it is a pot of sweetmeat or sour sikbáj (stew flavoured with vinegar).
  • از بخار آن بداند تیزهش  ** دیگ شیرینی ز سکباج ترش 

  • When a man taps a new pot with his hand at the time when he is buying it, he detects the cracked one (by its sound).
  • دست بر دیگ نوی چون زد فتی  ** وقت بخریدن بدید اشکسته را 

  • He (one of the three brothers) said (to the cadi), “I know a man at once by his mouth (speech); and if he do not speak, I know him within three days.” 4900
  • گفت دانم مرد را در حین ز پوز  ** ور نگوید دانمش اندر سه روز 

  • The second said, “I know him if he speak, and if he do not speak, I engage him in conversation.”
  • وآن دگر گفت ار بگوید دانمش  ** ور نگوید در سخن پیچانمش 

  • He (the cadi) said, “(But) if he has (already) heard of this device (of yours), he will close his lips and take refuge in silence.”
  • گفت اگر این مکر بشنیده بود  ** لب ببندد در خموشی در رود 

  • Parable.
  • مثل 

  • The case is like that of the mother who said to her child, “If a ghost come to you in the night,
  • آنچنان که گفت مادر بچه را  ** گر خیالی آیدت در شب فرا 

  • Or if in a graveyard and frightful place you behold a black bogle full of rage,
  • یا بگورستان و جای سهمگین  ** تو خیالی بینی اسود پر ز کین 

  • Keep a stout heart and rush at it, and immediately it will turn its face away from you.” 4905
  • دل قوی دار و بکن حمله برو  ** او بگرداند ز تو در حال رو 

  • “(But),” said the child, “suppose the devilish bogle's mother has said this (same thing) to it;
  • گفت کودک آن خیال دیووش  ** گر بدو این گفته باشد مادرش 

  • (If) I rush at it, by its mother's orders it will fall on my neck: what shall I do then?
  • حمله آرم افتد اندر گردنم  ** ز امر مادر پس من آنگه چون کنم 

  • You are teaching me to stand firm, (but) the ugly bogle has a mother too.”
  • تو همی‌آموزیم که چست ایست  ** آن خیال زشت را هم مادریست 

  • The instructor of (the race of) devils and of mankind is the One (God): through Him the enemy prevails (even) if he is in small force.
  • دیو و مردم را ملقن آن یکیست  ** غالب از وی گردد ار خصم اندکیست 

  • On whichever side that Gracious One may be, go and for God's sake, for God's sake, be thou also on that side! 4910
  • تا کدامین سوی باشد آن یواش  ** الله‌الله رو تو هم زان سوی باش 

  • He (the cadi) said, “Suppose the worthy man is not induced to speak by your device and has (already) perceived the trick,
  • گفت اگر از مکر ناید در کلام  ** حیله را دانسته باشد آن همام 

  • Tell me truly, how can you know his hidden nature?” He replied, “I sit before him in silence
  • سر او را چون شناسی راست گو  ** گفت من خامش نشینم پیش او 

  • And make patience a ladder to climb upwards: patience is the key to success.
  • صبر را سلم کنم سوی درج  ** تا بر آیم صبر مفتاح الفرج 

  • And if in his presence there should gush from my heart a speech beyond this (realm of) joy and sorrow,
  • ور بجوشد در حضورش از دلم  ** منطقی بیرون ازین شادی و غم