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  • ور رسد خاری چنین اندر قدم ** که رود گل یادگاری بایدم
  • And if such a thorn enter my foot (if such a calamity befall me) that the rose departs (that my son dies), I must needs have a keepsake.”

  • چون فنا را شد سبب بی‌منتهی ** پس کدامین راه را بندیم ما
  • Since the causes of mortality are infinite, which road, then, shall we bar?

  • صد دریچه و در سوی مرگ لدیغ ** می‌کند اندر گشادن ژیغ ژیغ
  • A hundred windows and doors facing towards mordant death are ever creaking as they are opened,

  • ژیغ‌ژیغ تلخ آن درهای مرگ ** نشنود گوش حریص از حرص برگ
  • (But) from greed for (worldly) provision the ear of the covetous does not hear the harsh creaking of those doors of death.

  • از سوی تن دردها بانگ درست ** وز سوی خصمان جفا بانگ درست 3105
  • From the side of the body, pains are the noise of the door; and from the side of enemies, maltreatment is the noise of the door.

  • جان سر بر خوان دمی فهرست طب ** نار علتها نظر کن ملتهب
  • My dear friend, read for one moment the table of contents of (books on) Medicine; look at the flaming fire of diseases!

  • زان همه غرها درین خانه رهست ** هر دو گامی پر ز کزدمها چهست
  • Through all those tumours (maladies) there is a way (for death) into this house: at every two steps there is a pit full of scorpions.

  • باد تندست و چراغم ابتری ** زو بگیرانم چراغ دیگری
  • (The king said), “The wind is fierce and my lamp is a docked (imperfect) one: I will light another lamp from it,

  • تا بود کز هر دو یک وافی شود ** گر به باد آن یک چراغ از جا رود
  • So that maybe one complete (lamp) will arise from them both, if that one lamp be put out by the wind,”

  • هم‌چو عارف کن تن ناقص چراغ ** شمع دل افروخت از بهر فراغ 3110
  • Like the gnostic who, for the sake of (gaining) freedom from care, has lit the candle of the heart (spirit) from this defective lamp of the body,