یار چشم تست ای مرد شکار ** از خس و خاشاک او را پاک دار
The friend is thine eye, O huntsman: keep him pure from (unsoiled by) sticks and straws.
هین به جاروب زبان گردی مکن ** چشم را از خس ره آوردی مکن
Beware! Do not make a dust with thy tongue's broom, do not make a present of rubbish to thine eye.
چون که مومن آینهی مومن بود ** روی او ز آلودگی ایمن بود30
Since the true believer is a mirror for the true believer, his face is safe from defilement.
یار آیینه ست جان را در حزن ** در رخ آیینهای جان دم مزن
The friend is a mirror for the soul in sorrow: breathe not on the face of the mirror, O my soul!
تا نپوشد روی خود را در دمت ** دم فرو خوردن بباید هر دمت
Lest it cover its face to (conceal itself from) thee at once, thou must swallow (suppress) thy breath at every moment.
کم ز خاکی چون که خاکی یار یافت ** از بهاری صد هزار انوار یافت
Art thou less than earth? When a plot of earth finds a friend, that is, a springtide, it finds (gains) a hundred thousand flowers.
آن درختی کاو شود با یار جفت ** از هوای خوش ز سر تا پا شکفت
The tree that is united with a friend, that is, the sweet air (of spring), blossoms from head to foot;
در خزان چون دید او یار خلاف ** در کشید او رو و سر زیر لحاف35
In autumn, when it sees (meets with) a repugnant companion, it withdraws its face and head under the coverlet
گفت یار بد بلا آشفتن است ** چون که او آمد طریقم خفتن است
And says, “A bad comrade is (the means of) stirring up trouble: since he has come, my (best) course is to sleep.
پس بخسپم باشم اصحاب کهف ** به ز دقیانوس آن محبوس لهف
Therefore I will sleep, I will be (like) one of the Men of the Cave (the Seven Sleepers): that prisoner of woe (that sorely distressed one) is better than Decianus.”