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  • طالب علم است بهر عام و خاص ** نی که تا یابد از این عالم خلاص‏
  • (For) he is seeking knowledge on account of the vulgar and the noble, not in order that he may win release from this world.

  • همچو موشی هر طرف سوراخ کرد ** چون که نورش راند از در گشت سرد
  • Like a mouse, he has burrowed in every direction, since the light drove him (back) from the door (the entrance to the hole) and said, ‘Away!’

  • چون که سوی دشت و نورش ره نبود ** هم در آن ظلمات جهدی می‏نمود
  • Inasmuch as he had no way (of getting out) to the open country and the light, he continued to make (such) an exertion even in that darkness.

  • گر خدایش پر دهد پر خرد ** برهد از موشی و چون مرغان پرد
  • If God give him wings, the wings of Wisdom, he will escape from mousiness and will fly like the birds;

  • ور نجوید پر بماند زیر خاک ** ناامید از رفتن راه سماک‏ 2435
  • But if he seek not wings, he will remain underground with no hope of traversing the path to Simák.

  • علم گفتاری که آن بی‏جان بود ** عاشق روی خریداران بود
  • Dialectic knowledge, which is soulless, is in love with (eager for) the countenance of customers;

  • گر چه باشد وقت بحث علم زفت ** چون خریدارش نباشد مرد و رفت‏
  • (But) though it is robust at the time of disputation, it is dead and gone when it has no customer.

  • مشتری من خدای است او مرا ** می‏کشد بالا که الله اشتری‏
  • My purchaser is God: He is drawing me aloft, for God hath purchased.

  • خونبهای من جمال ذو الجلال ** خونبهای خود خورم کسب حلال‏
  • My bloodwit (the reward of my self-sacrifice) is the beauty of the Glorious One: I enjoy my bloodwit (as) lawful earnings.

  • این خریداران مفلس را بهل ** چه خریداری کند یک مشت گل‏ 2440
  • Abandon these insolvent customers: what purchase can be made by a handful of (worthless) clay?