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بخش ۳۳ / Section 33

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کوژپشتی را گفتند: آن می خواهی که خدای تعالی پشت تو را چون دیگران راست گرداند یا آن که پشت دیگران را چون تو کوژ گرداند؟ گفت: آنکه همه را چون من کوژ گرداند تا به آن چشمی که ایشان در من نگریسته اند من نیز به همان چشم در ایشان نگرم.
خوش آنکه خصم به عیبی که طعنه تو زند

به رغم وی ز چنان عیب رسته بنشینی
وز این نشستن بی عیب خوشتر آن باشد

که مبتلا شده او را به عیب خود بینی

English translation

They said to a hunchback: 'Do you wish that God Most High would make your back straight like others', or that He would make the backs of others bent like yours?' He said: 'The one in which He makes everyone bent like me, so that with the very eye by which they have looked upon me, I too may look upon them.' Happy is it when, regarding a fault with which your foe taunts you, you sit, to his chagrin, free of such a fault; and better than this sitting free of the fault is that you behold him afflicted with his own fault.

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