با همه تمکین خدا روزی او ** کرده باشد بسته اندر جست و جو1475
Notwithstanding all (this) majesty, God must have made his livelihood to be bound up with seeking and endeavour.
بی زره‌بافی و رنجی روزیش ** می‌نیاید با همه پیروزیش
Without weaving coats of mail and (without) some trouble (on his part), his livelihood is not coming (to him), notwithstanding all his victoriousness.
این چنین مخذول واپس مانده‌ای ** خانه کنده دون و گردون‌رانده‌ای
(Yet) a God-forsaken abandoned one like this, a low scoundrel and outcast from Heaven,
این چنین مدبر همی خواهد که زود ** بی تجارت پر کند دامن ز سود
A backslider of this sort, desires, without trading, at once to fill his skirt (pocket) with gain!
این چنین گیجی بیامد در میان ** که بر آیم بر فلک بی نردبان
Such a crazy fellow has come forward, saying, ‘I will climb up to the sky without a ladder.’”
این همی‌گفتش بتسخر رو بگیر ** که رسیدت روزی و آمد بشیر1480
This one would say to him derisively, “Go and receive (it), for your daily portion has arrived and the messenger has come with the good news”;
و آن همی خندید ما را هم بده ** زانچ یابی هدیه‌ای سالار ده
And that one would laugh, (saying), “Give us too (a share) of what you get as a gift, O headman of the village.”
او ازین تشنیع مردم وین فسوس ** کم نمی‌کرد از دعا و چاپلوس
(But) he was not diminishing his prayers and wheedling entreaties because of this abuse and ridicule from the people,
تا که شد در شهر معروف و شهیر ** کو ز انبان تهی جوید پنیر
So that he became well-known and celebrated in the town as one who seeks (to obtain) cheese from an empty wallet.
شد مثل در خام‌طبعی آن گدا ** او ازین خواهش نمی‌آمد جدا
That beggar became a proverb for foolishness, (but) he would not desist from this petitioning.
دویدن گاو در خانه‌ی آن دعا کننده بالحاح قال النبی صلی الله علیه وسلم ان الله یحب الملحین فی الدعا زیرا عین خواست از حق تعالی و الحاح خواهنده را به است از آنچ می‌خواهد آن را ازو
How a cow ran into the house of him that was praying importunately. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, has said, “God loves them that are importunate in prayer,” because the actual asking (of anything) from God most High and the importunity (itself) is better for the petitioner than the thing which he is asking of Him.