سگ نهای بر استخوان چون عاشقی ** دیوچهوار از چه بر خون عاشقی
(If) you are not a cur, how are you in love with bones? Why are you in love with blood, like a leech?
آن چه چشم است آن که بیناییش نیست ** ز امتحانها جز که رسواییش نیست
What (sort of) eye is that that hath no sight, and gets nothing but disgrace from the tests (to which it is put)?
سهو باشد ظنها را گاه گاه ** این چه ظن است این که کور آمد ز راه
Opinions are sometimes erroneous, (but) what (sort of) opinion is this that is blind to the (right) road?
دیده آ بر دیگران نوحهگری ** مدتی بنشین و بر خود میگری
O eye, thou makest lament for others: sit down awhile and weep for thyself!
ز ابر گریان شاخ سبز و تر شود ** ز آنکه شمع از گریه روشنتر شود480
The bough is made green and fresh by the weeping cloud, for the (same) reason that the candle is made brighter by (its) weeping.
هر کجا نوحه کنند آن جا نشین ** ز آنکه تو اولیتری اندر حنین
Wheresoever people are lamenting, sit you there (and lament), because you have a better right to moan (than they have),
ز آن که ایشان در فراق فانیاند ** غافل از لعل بقای کانیاند
Inasmuch as they are (concerned) with parting from that which passes away, and are forgetful of the ruby of everlasting-ness that belongs to the mine (of Reality);
ز آن که بر دل نقش تقلید است بند ** رو به آب چشم بندش را برند
Inasmuch as the stamp of blind imitation is (as) a lock upon the heart;-go, scrape off (dissolve) its lock with tears-;
ز آن که تقلید آفت هر نیکویی است ** که بود تقلید اگر کوه قوی است
Inasmuch as imitation is the bane of every good quality; imitation is (but) a straw, (even) if it is a mighty mountain.
گر ضریری لمترست و تیز خشم ** گوشت پارهش دان چو او را نیست چشم485
If a blind man is big and choleric, deem him (only) a piece of flesh, since he has no eye (eye-sight).