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  • بر نمد چوبی که آن را مرد زد ** بر نمد آن را نزد بر گرد زد
  • The blows of the stick with which a man beats a rug he inflicts, not on the rug, but on the dust (in the rug).

  • گر بزد مر اسپ را آن کینه کش ** آن نزد بر اسپ زد بر سکسکش
  • If that vindictive fellow lashes the horse, he directs the blows, not at the horse, but at its stumbling,

  • تا ز سکسک وا رهد خوش‌پی شود ** شیره را زندان کنی تا می‌شود
  • In order that it may be delivered from (the vice of) stumbling and may move well: you imprison must (in the vat) in order that it may become wine.

  • گفت چندان آن یتیمک را زدی ** چون نترسیدی ز قهر ایزدی 4015
  • He (some one) said, “Thou hast struck that little orphan so many blows: how wert not thou afraid of the Divine wrath?”

  • گفت او را کی زدم ای جان و دوست ** من بر آن دیوی زدم کو اندروست
  • He (the striker) said, “O (dear) soul and friend, when did I strike him? I struck at the devil that is in him,”

  • مادر ار گوید ترا مرگ تو باد ** مرگ آن خو خواهد و مرگ فساد
  • If your mother say to you, “Mayst thou die!” she wishes the death of that (evil) nature (of yours) and the death of iniquity.

  • آن گروهی کز ادب بگریختند ** آب مردی و آب مردان ریختند
  • The folk who fled from correction dishonoured’ their (own) manhood and (true) men.

  • عاذلانشان از وغا وا راندند ** تا چنین حیز و مخنث ماندند
  • The railers drove them back from the war, so that they remained so infamous and effeminate.

  • لاف و غره‌ی ژاژخا را کم شنو ** با چنینها در صف هیجا مرو 4020
  • Do not thou hearken to the boasting and roaring of the driveller: do not go into the battle-line with such fellows.

  • زانک زاد و کم خبالا گفت حق ** کز رفاق سست برگردان ورق
  • Since they would have added to you (naught but) corruption, God said, “Turn the leaf (avert yourself) from pusillanimous comrades,