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  • دل نیارامد ز گفتار دروغ ** آب و روغن هیچ نفروزد فروغ‏ 2735
  • The (troubled) heart is not comforted by lying words: water and oil kindle no light.

  • در حدیث راست آرام دل است ** راستیها دانه‏ی دام دل است‏
  • (Only) in truthful speech is there comfort for the heart: truths are the bait that entraps the heart.

  • دل مگر رنجور باشد بد دهان ** که نداند چاشنی این و آن‏
  • Sick, surely, and ill-savoured is the heart that knows not (cannot distinguish) the taste of this and that.

  • چون شود از رنج و علت دل سلیم ** طعم کذب و راست را باشد علیم‏
  • When the heart becomes whole (is healed) of pain and disease, it will recognize the flavour of falsehood and truth.

  • حرص آدم چون سوی گندم فزود ** از دل آدم سلیمی را ربود
  • When Adam's greed for the wheat waxed great, it robbed Adam's heart of health.

  • پس دروغ و عشوه‏ات را گوش کرد ** غره گشت و زهر قاتل نوش کرد 2740
  • Then he gave ear to your lies and enticements: he was befooled and drank the killing poison.

  • کژدم از گندم ندانست آن نفس ** می‏پرد تمییز از مست هوس‏
  • At that moment he knew not scorpion (kazhdum) from wheat (gandum): discernment flies from one that is drunken with vain desire.

  • خلق مست آرزویند و هوا ** ز آن پذیرایند دستان ترا
  • The people are drunken with cupidity and desire: hence they are accepting your cheatery.

  • هر که خود را از هوا خود باز کرد ** چشم خود را آشنای راز کرد
  • Whoever has rid his nature of vain desire has (thereby) made his (spiritual) eye familiar with the secret.

  • شکایت قاضی از آفت قضا و جواب گفتن نایب او را
  • How a cadi complained of the calamity of (holding) the office of cadi, and how his deputy answered him.

  • قاضیی بنشاندند او می‏گریست ** گفت نایب قاضیا گریه ز چیست‏
  • They installed a cadi, (and meanwhile) he wept. The deputy said, ‘O cadi, what are you weeping for?