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میر دیدی خویش را ای کم ز مور ** زان ندیدی آن موکل را تو کور
- (But) you, O less than an ant, deemed yourself a prince: hence, blind (as you are), you did not see that custodian.
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غره گشتی زین دروغین پر و بال ** پر و بالی کو کشد سوی وبال
- You were deluded by these false wings and plumes—the wings and plumes that lead to woe.
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پر سبک دارد ره بالا کند ** چون گل‌آلو شد گرانیها کند
- (If) he keep his wings light (unencumbered), he journeys upward; when he becomes defiled with earth, he makes heavinesses (which weigh him down).
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لاابالی گفتن عاشق ناصح و عاذل را از سر عشق
- How the lover, impelled by love, said “I don't care” to the person who counselled and scolded him.
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گفت ای ناصح خمش کن چند چند ** پند کم ده زانک بس سختست بند 3830
- He said, “O counsellor, be silent! How long, how long (wilt thou chide)? Do not give advice, for the bonds (on me) are very grievous.
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سخت‌تر شد بند من از پند تو ** عشق را نشناخت دانشمند تو
- My bonds are more grievous than thy advice: thy doctor (who taught thee) was not acquainted with love.
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آن طرف که عشق می‌افزود درد ** بوحنیفه و شافعی درسی نکرد
- In that quarter where love was increasing (my) pain, Bú Hanífa and Sháfi‘í gave no instruction.
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تو مکن تهدید از کشتن که من ** تشنه‌ی زارم به خون خویشتن
- Do not thou threaten me with being killed, for I thirst lamentably for mine own blood.”
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عاشقان را هر زمانی مردنیست ** مردن عشاق خود یک نوع نیست
- For lovers, there is a dying at every moment: verily, the dying of lovers is not of one sort.
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او دو صد جان دارد از جان هدی ** وآن دوصد را می‌کند هر دم فدی 3835
- He (the lover) hath two hundred souls (lives) from the Soul of Guidance, and those two hundred he is sacrificing at every instant.
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هر یکی جان را ستاند ده بها ** از نبی خوان عشرة امثالها
- For each soul (life) he receives ten as its price: read from the Qur’án “ten like unto them.”