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هر چه بینی سود خود ز آن میگریز ** زهر نوش و آب حیوان را بریز
- Always flee from whatever you deem profitable to your (lower) self: drink poison and spill the water of life.
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هر که بستاند ترا دشنام ده ** سود و سرمایه به مفلس وام ده 2330
- Revile any one that praises you: lend (both) interest and capital to the destitute.
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ایمنی بگذار و جای خوف باش ** بگذر از ناموس و رسوا باش و فاش
- Let safety go, and dwell in the place of fear (danger): leave reputation behind and be disgraced and notorious.
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آزمودم عقل دور اندیش را ** بعد از این دیوانه سازم خویش را
- I have tried far-thinking (provident) intellect; henceforth I will make myself mad.
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عذر گفتن دلقک با سید که چرا فاحشه را نکاح کرد
- How Dalqak excused himself to the Sayyid-i Ajall (who asked him) why he had married a harlot.
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گفت با دلقک شبی سید اجل ** قحبهای را خواستی تو از عجل
- One night the Sayyid-i Ajall said to Dalqak, “You have married a harlot in haste.
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با من این را باز میبایست گفت ** تا یکی مستور کردیمیت جفت
- You ought to have disclosed this (matter) to me, so that we might have made a chaste (woman) your wife.”
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گفت نه مستور صالح خواستم ** قحبه گشتند و ز غم تن کاستم 2335
- Dalqak replied, “I have (already) married nine chaste and virtuous women: they became harlots, and I wasted away with grief.
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خواستم این قحبه را بیمعرفت ** تا ببینم چون شود این عاقبت
- I married this harlot without (previous) acquaintance (with her), in order to see how this one (also) would turn out in the end.
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عقل را من آزمودم هم بسی ** زین سپس جویم جنون را مغرسی
- Often have I tried (sound) intelligence; henceforth I will seek a nursery for insanity.”
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به حیلت در سخن آوردن سائل آن بزرگ را که خود را دیوانه ساخته بود
- How an inquirer managed to draw into conversation an eminent (saintly) man who had feigned to be mad.
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آن یکی میگفت خواهم عاقلی ** مشورت آرم بدو در مشکلی
- A certain man was saying, “I want some one of intelligence, (that) I may consult him about a difficulty.”