چند آن لنگی تو رهوار شد ** چند جانت بی غم و آزار شد
How oft hath thy limping been turned into a smooth (easy) gait, how oft hath thy soul been made void of grief and pain!
ای مغفل رشته‌ای بر پای بند ** تا ز خود هم گم نگردی ای لوند
O heedless one, tie a string to thy foot, that thou mayst not become lost to (unconscious of) thyself even, O sluggard!
ناسپاسی و فراموشی تو ** یاد ناورد آن عسل‌نوشی تو310
Thy ingratitude and forgetfulness did not call to mind thy (former) drinking of honey.
لاجرم آن راه بر تو بسته شد ** چون دل اهل دل از تو خسته شد
Necessarily, that way (by which spiritual blessings were conveyed) became barred to thee, since the hearts of the “men of heart” were made sore by thee.
زودشان در یاب و استغفار کن ** همچو ابری گریه‌های زار کن
Quickly overtake them and ask pardon of God; weep lamentably like a cloud,
تا گلستانشان سوی تو بشکفد ** میوه‌های پخته بر خود وا کفد
In order that their rose-garden may open its blossoms to thee, and that the ripe fruits may burst and reveal themselves.
هم بر آن در گرد کم از سگ مباش ** با سگ کهف ار شدستی خواجه‌تاش
Pace round that same door: do not be less than a dog, if thou hast become (associated as) a fellow-servant with the dog of the Cave,
چون سگان هم مر سگان را ناصح‌اند ** که دل اندر خانه‌ی اول ببند315
Because even dogs admonish dogs, saying, “Fix thy heart on thy first home,
آن در اول که خوردی استخوان ** سخت گیر و حق گزار آن را ممان
Hold fast to the first door where thou didst eat bones, and fulfil thy obligation: do not leave that (debt unpaid).”
می‌گزندش تا ز ادب آنجا رود ** وز مقام اولین مفلح شود
They keep biting him (the strange dog), that from a sense of duty he may go thither and be prospered by his first abode.