Human Honesty

Biting their teeth until midnight, their souls were at their lips.  
Suddenly, the image of a wolf appeared from the top of a mound.  
The master released the arrow from the bowstring, hitting the animal until it fell low.  
As the animal fell, the wind leaped, and the villagers clapped their hands.  
The villager said, "You coward, that's my donkey foal," but the other replied, "No, this is a wolf like a demon."  
The villager insisted, "It looks like a wolf, and its shape indicates it's a wolf."  
The other said, "No, the wind that came from its rear, I recognize it as clearly as water from wine."  
"You've killed my donkey foal in the garden, may you never find ease from distress."  
The master said, "Investigate better, it's night, and at night, bodies are hidden from the observer."  
Night shows mistakes and many transformations; not everyone sees clearly at night.  
Both night and clouds and deep rain, these three darknesses bring great confusion.  
The villager said, "To me, it's as clear as day; I recognize the wind of my donkey foal."  
Among twenty winds, I recognize that wind as a traveler recognizes provisions.  
The master jumped up and came without surprise, grabbing the villager by the collar.  
"You've brought a cunning trick, consuming both cannabis and opium together."  
"In three darknesses, you recognize the wind of a donkey, yet you don't recognize me, you fool."  
"He who knows a calf at midnight, how does he not know a ten-year companion?"  
"You pretend to be wise and passionate, throwing dust in the eyes of chivalry."  
"I am not even aware of myself; there is no room in my heart for anything but God."  
"I don't remember what I ate yesterday; this heart is not happy with anything but bewilderment."  
"Remember me as both wise and mad, and excuse me in such selflessness."  
"He who eats carrion, meaning wine, the law draws him towards the excused."  
"The drunk and the cannabis user have no divorce or sale; like a child, he is exempt and free."  
"Drunkenness from the scent of the king's presence, a hundred jars of wine did not do that to his head and brain."  
"Then how can obligation be justified? The horse has fallen and is without hands and feet."  
"How can a donkey foal carry a load in the world? How can a Persian cat be taught a lesson?"  
"When the lame come, they carry the load; God said, 'There is no blame on the blind.'"  
"I have become blind to myself from the truth, so I am exempt from little and much."  
"You boast of poverty and selflessness, the cries of divine drunkenness."  
"I do not know the earth from the sky; the test of jealousy tested you."  
"The wind of the donkey foal exposed you like this; your negation of existence affirmed you."  
"God exposes the cunning like this; He captures the escaped prey like this."  
"There are hundreds of thousands of tests, O son; whoever claims to be a commander at the door."  
"If the common people do not know him from the test, the mature seekers will find his sign."  
"When a fool claims to be a tailor, the king throws a broadcloth in front of him."  
"Cut this into a wide cloak; from the test, his two horns will be revealed."  
"If there were no test, every evil would be; every effeminate would be Rustam in battle."  
"Consider the effeminate wearing armor; when he sees the wound, he becomes like a captive."  
"The drunk of God becomes aware from the west wind; the drunk of God does not come to himself until the trumpet is blown."  
"The wine of God is true without lies; you drank buttermilk, you drank buttermilk, buttermilk."  
"You made yourself Junayd and Bayazid; go, for I do not know an ax from a key."  
"Begging and begging and greed and avarice, how do you hide with cunning, O deceitful maker?"  
"You make yourself Mansur Hallaj, setting fire to the cotton of your companions."  
"I do not recognize Omar from Abu Lahab; I recognize the wind of my foal at midnight."  
"O donkey, who believes this from you, makes himself blind and deaf for you."  
"Consider yourself less than the travelers; do not drink with the companions of the path."  
"Fly back from cunning to reason; how can a metaphorical wing fly to the sky?"  
"You made yourself a lover of God; you played love with the black devil."  
"In the resurrection, the lover and the beloved are bound two by two and brought forward quickly."  
"What have you done to make yourself dizzy and selfless? The blood of the vine has drunk our blood."  
"Go, for I do not recognize you from me; I am a selfless knower and a madman of the village."  
"You imagine from the closeness of God that the plate maker is not far from the plate."  
"Do you not see that the closeness of the saints has a hundred miracles and works and splendor?"