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دفتر سوم - بخش ۲۳ - تشبیه فرعون و دعوی الوهیت او بدان شغال کی دعوی طاوسی می‌کرد / Book Three - Section 23 - Likening Pharaoh and His Claim to Divinity to That Jackal Who Claimed to Be a Peacock

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همچو فرعونی مرصع کرده ریش
برتر از عیسی پریده از خریش

او هم از نسل شغال ماده زاد
در خم مالی و جاهی در فتاد

هر که دید آن جاه و مالش سجده کرد
سجدهٔ افسوسیان را او بخورد

گشت مستک آن گدای ژنده دلق
از سجود و از تحیرهای خلق

مال مار آمد که در وی زهرهاست
و آن قبول و سجدهٔ خلق اژدهاست

های ای فرعون ناموسی مکن
تو شغالی هیچ طاووسی مکن

سوی طاووسان اگر پیدا شوی
عاجزی از جلوه و رسوا شوی

موسی و هارون چو طاووسان بدند
پر جلوه بر سر و رویت زدند

زشتیت پیدا شد و رسواییت
سرنگون افتادی از بالاییت

چون محک دیدی سیه گشتی چو قلب
نقش شیری رفت و پیدا گشت کلب

ای سگ گرگین زشت از حرص و جوش
پوستین شیر را بر خود مپوش

غرهٔ شیرت بخواهد امتحان
نقش شیر و آنگه اخلاق سگان

English translation

Like a Pharaoh who had jeweled his beard, who through his own asinine folly leapt higher than Jesus; he too was born from the stock of a she-jackal, and fell into the vat of wealth and rank. Whoever saw that rank and wealth prostrated to him; he fed on the prostrations of the deluded ones. That ragged-cloaked beggar became drunk from the people's prostrations and bewilderment. Wealth is a snake, for in it are poisons, and people's acceptance and prostration is a dragon. Hey, Pharaoh, do not put on a show of honor; you are a jackal, do not act like a peacock at all. If you show yourself among peacocks, you will be helpless in display and disgraced. Moses and Aaron were like peacocks; they struck the plumes of display over your head and face. Your ugliness became visible, and your disgrace; you fell headlong from your height. When you saw the touchstone, you turned black like a base coin; the lion's image vanished and the dog appeared. O mangy, ugly dog, from greed and agitation, do not put the lion's pelt on yourself. Your lion-like pretence will call for a test: the image of a lion, but the morals of dogs.

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