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  • دشمن آن باشد کز او آید عذاب ** مانع آید لعل را از آفتاب‏
  • An enemy is one from whom torment proceeds, (one who) hinders the ruby from (receiving the rays of) the sun.

  • مانع خویشند جمله‏ی کافران ** از شعاع جوهر پیغمبران‏
  • All the infidels hinder themselves from (receiving) the rays of the prophets' (spiritual) jewel.

  • کی حجاب چشم آن فردند خلق ** چشم خود را کور و کژ کردند خلق‏ 795
  • How should (unbelieving) people veil the eyes of that peerless one (the prophet or saint)? The people have (only) blinded and distorted their own eyes.

  • چون غلام هندویی کاو کین کشد ** از ستیزه‏ی خواجه خود را می‏کشد
  • (They are) like the Indian slave who bears a grudge and kills himself to spite his master:

  • سر نگون می‏افتد از بام سرا ** تا زیانی کرده باشد خواجه را
  • He falls headlong from the roof of the house (in the hope) that he may have done some harm to his master.

  • گر شود بیمار دشمن با طبیب ** ور کند کودک عداوت با ادیب‏
  • If the sick man become an enemy to the physician, or if the boy show hostility to the teacher,

  • در حقیقت ره زن جان خودند ** راه عقل و جان خود را خود زدند
  • In truth they act as brigands against themselves: they themselves waylay their own mind and spirit.

  • گازری گر خشم گیرد ز آفتاب ** ماهیی گر خشم می‏گیرد ز آب‏ 800
  • If a fuller take offence at the sun, if a fish is taking offence at the water,

  • تو یکی بنگر که را دارد زیان ** عاقبت که بود سیاه اختر از آن‏
  • Just once consider whom that (anger) injures, and whose star is eclipsed by it in the end.

  • گر ترا حق آفریند زشت رو ** هان مشو هم زشت رو هم زشت خو
  • If God create you with ugly features, take care lest you become both ugly-featured and ugly-natured;