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  • ساعتی آن جایگه تشریف ده ** تزکیه‏ی ما کن ز ما تعریف ده‏
  • Honour that place (by thy presence) for a short while: declare us to be sincere, and give a good account of us.

  • مسجد و اصحاب مسجد را نواز ** تو مهی ما شب دمی با ما بساز
  • Show favour to the mosque and its founders. Thou art the moon, we are the night: comply with us for a moment,

  • تا شود شب از جمالت همچو روز ** ای جمالت آفتاب جان فروز
  • In order that by thy beauty night may be made like day, O thou whose beauty is a soul-illumining sun.”

  • ای دریغا کان سخن از دل بدی ** تا مراد آن نفر حاصل شدی‏
  • Alas! would that those words had been from the heart, so that the desire of those folk might have been accomplished!

  • لطف کاید بی‏دل و جان در زبان ** همچو سبزه‏ی تون بود ای دوستان‏ 2840
  • Courtesy that comes to the tongue without (sincerity of) heart and soul is like herbs on the ash-heap, O friends.

  • هم ز دورش بنگر و اندر گذر ** خوردن و بو را نشاید ای پسر
  • Look at them from afar and pass on: they are not fit for eating or smelling, O son.

  • سوی لطف بی‏وفایان هین مرو ** کان پل ویران بود نیکو شنو
  • Beware, do not go (incline) towards the courtesy of the faithless, for it is a ruined bridge: heed well (my warning).

  • گر قدم را جاهلی بر وی زند ** بشکند پل و آن قدم را بشکند
  • If a fool set foot on it, the bridge will break, and will shatter that foot of his.

  • هر کجا لشکر شکسته می‏شود ** او دو سه سست مخنث می‏بود
  • Wherever an army is routed, it is because of two or three effeminate weaklings.

  • در صف آید با سلاح او مردوار ** دل بر او بنهند کاینک یار غار 2845
  • He (the poltroon) comes armed into the battle-line, like a man: they (the soldiers) put their trust in him, saying, “Here's the Comrade of the Cave.”