Explaining that the promise made by the fool at the moment of seizure (punishment) and contrition is faithless, for though they should be sent back, they would surely return to that which they were forbidden to do, and verily they are liars. The false dawn keeps not faith.
Reason was saying to him, “Folly is with
you: with Folly (as your companion),
the promise will be broken.
The keeping of
promises appertains to reason:
you have not reason:
begone, O you whose value is that
of an
ass!
Reason remembers its covenant: understanding rends the veil of forgetfulness.
2290. Since you have not reason, forgetfulness is your ruler: it is your enemy and
the bringer- to-naught of your devising.”
From deficiency
of reason the wretched moth does not re member the flame
and the burning
and
the (crackling) sound (when
its wings are scorched).
When its wings are burnt, it repents; (but) cupidity and forgetfulness dash it (again) into the flame.
Grasp and apprehension and retentiveness and
keeping in mind
belong to Reason, for Reason has raised
those
(faculties).
When the pearl
is not there, how should its lustre exist?
When there is none to remind (admonish
the
fool), how should he turn
back (from folly)?
2295. Moreover, this wish
(to
escape from the
consequences of his
folly) arises from
his
want of reason, for he does not see
what is the
nature of that
folly.
That contrition
was the result of pain,
not of Reason which is bright
as a treasure.
When the pain departed, that contrition became naught: that repentance and contrition has not
the
worth (even) of
dust.
That contrition burgeoned
from (was produced
by) the darkness of pain;
hence (as the proverb
says) day wipes out
the words of
night
When the darkness
of pain is gone and he
(the fool) has be come
happy, its result and product also goes from his heart.
2300. He is making vow’s of
repentance,
whilst the Pir, Reason, is crying,
“Though they should be sent back, they would surely
return.”
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