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هر که جبر آورد خود رنجور کرد ** تا همان رنجوریاش در گور کرد
- Any one who pleads necessity (as an excuse) feigns himself to be ill, with the result that the (feigned) illness brings him to the grave.
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گفت پیغمبر که رنجوری به لاغ ** رنج آرد تا بمیرد چون چراغ 1070
- The Prophet said, “Illness (assumed) in jest brings (real) disease, so that he (the jester) dies like a lamp.”
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جبر چه بود بستن اشکسته را ** یا بپیوستن رگی بگسسته را
- What is (the meaning of) jabr? To bind up a broken (limb) or tie a severed vein.
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چون در این ره پای خود نشکستهای ** بر که میخندی چه پا را بستهای
- Inasmuch as you have not broken your foot in this path, whom are you mocking? Why have you bandaged your foot?
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و آن که پایش در ره کوشش شکست ** در رسید او را براق و بر نشست
- But as for him who broke his foot in the path of exertion, Buráq came up to him, and he mounted (and rode).
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حامل دین بود او محمول شد ** قابل فرمان بد او مقبول شد
- He was a bearer of the (true) religion, and he became one who is borne; he was an accepter of the (Divine) command, and he became accepted.
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تا کنون فرمان پذیرفتی ز شاه ** بعد از این فرمان رساند بر سپاه 1075
- Until now, he was receiving commands from the King; henceforth he delivers the (King's) commands to the people.
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تا کنون اختر اثر کردی در او ** بعد از این باشد امیر اختر او
- Until now, the stars were influencing him; henceforth he is the ruler of the stars.
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گر ترا اشکال آید در نظر ** پس تو شک داری در انشق القمر
- If (on this account) perplexity arise in thy sight (mind), then thou wilt have doubts concerning The moon was cloven asunder.
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تازه کن ایمان نه از گفت زبان ** ای هوا را تازه کرده در نهان
- Refresh thy faith, (but) not with talk of the tongue, O thou who hast secretly refreshed thy (evil) desire.