بخش 199 - تمثیل صابر شدن مؤمن چون بر شر و خیر بلا واقف شود

(If) a dog is not (kept) for hunting, he has no collar: the raw and unboiled is naught but the insipid.”

The chickpea said, “Since it is so, O lady, I will gladly boil: give me help in verity! In this boiling thou art, as it were, my architect: smite me with the skimming spoon, for thou smitest very delightfully.

I am as the elephant: beat and brand my head, that I may not dream of Hindustán and (its) gardens;

So that I may yield myself (submit) to the boiling, to the end that I may find a way to that embrace (of the Beloved);

Because Man, in (the state of) independence, grows insolent and becomes hostile, like the dreaming elephant.

When the elephant dreams of Hindustán, he does not hearken to the driver and displays viciousness.”