در لحد کاین چشم را خاک آگند ** هستت آن چه گور را روشن کند
When dust shall fill these eyes in the tomb, have you that which will make the grave bright?
آن زمان که دست و پایت بر درد ** پر و بالت هست تا جان بر پرد
At the time when your hands and feet shall be torn in shreds, have you wings and plumes that your spirit may fly aloft?
آن زمان کاین جان حیوانی نماند ** جان باقی بایدت بر جا نشاند
At the time when this animal soul is no more, it behoves you to set the everlasting spirit in its place.
شرط من جا بالحسن نه کردن است ** این حسن را سوی حضرت بردن است
The stipulation of (implied in) he that comes with good (shall be rewarded tenfold) does not consist in doing (good); it consists in bringing this good to the presence of God.
جوهری داری ز انسان یا خری ** این عرضها که فنا شد چون بری945
You have a substance (essence) human or asinine (bestial): (bring that to God): how can you bring (to Him) these accidents (of word or deed) which have passed away?
این عرضهای نماز و روزه را ** چون که لا یبقی زمانین انتفی
As regards these accidents of prayer and fasting—since (that which) does not endure for two moments becomes naught—
نقل نتوان کرد مر اعراض را ** لیک از جوهر برند امراض را
’Tis impossible to carry over the accidents (into another state); but they (may) take away diseases (defects) from the substance,
تا مبدل گشت جوهر زین عرض ** چون ز پرهیزی که زایل شد مرض
So that the substance becomes changed by means of this accident, as when disease is removed by abstinence.
گشت پرهیز عرض جوهر به جهد ** شد دهان تلخ از پرهیز شهد
By exertion abstinence, (which is) the accident, becomes the substance: through abstinence the acrid mouth becomes (sweet as) honey.
از زراعت خاکها شد سنبله ** داروی مو کرد مو را سلسله950
Land, through sowing, is turned into ears of corn; remedies for the hair turn the hair into chains (make it long and curly).