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هست دست راست اینجا ظن راست ** کاو بداند نیک و بد را کز کجاست 1120
- Here “the right hand” is right opinion, which knows concerning (both) good and evil whence they are.
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نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو ** راست میگردی گهی گاهی دو تو
- O lance, there is a Lancer, so that sometimes thou becomest straight, sometimes (bent) double.
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ما ز عشق شمس دین بیناخنیم ** ور نه ما آن کور را بینا کنیم
- Through love of Shams-i Dín (the Sun of the Religion) I am without claws (powerless); else I would make that blind one see.
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هان ضیاء الحق حسام الدین تو زود ** داروش کن کوری چشم حسود
- Hark, O Light of the Truth, Husámu’ddín, do thou speedily heal him, to the confusion of the eye of the envious;
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توتیای کبریای تیز فعل ** داروی ظلمت کش استیز فعل
- (Heal him with) the quick-acting tutty of majesty, the darkness-killing remedy of the recalcitrant,
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آن که گر بر چشم اعمی بر زند ** ظلمت صد ساله را زو بر کند 1125
- Which, if it strike on the eye of the blind man, will dispel from him a hundred years' darkness.
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جمله کوران را دوا کن جز حسود ** کز حسودی بر تو میآرد جحود
- Heal all the blind ones except the envious man who from envy is bringing denial against thee.
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مر حسودت را اگر چه آن منم ** جان مده تا همچنین جان میکنم
- To thy envier, though it be I, do not give life, (but let me alone) so that I may be suffering the agony of (spiritual) death even as he is.
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آن که او باشد حسود آفتاب ** و انکه میرنجد ز بود آفتاب
- (I mean) him that is envious of the Sun and him that is fretting at the existence of the Sun.
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اینت درد بیدوا کاو راست آه ** اینت افتاده ابد در قعر چاه
- Look you, this is the incurable disease which he has, alas; look you, this is one fallen for ever to the bottom of the pit.