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  • مالک الملک است هر کش سر نهد ** بی‌جهان خاک صد ملکش دهد
  • He (God) is the Possessor of the Kingdom: whosoever lays his head before Him, to him He gives a hundred kingdoms without the terrestrial world;

  • لیک ذوق سجده‌ای پیش خدا ** خوشتر آید از دو صد دولت ترا 665
  • But the (inward) savour of a single prostration before God will be more sweet to thee than two hundred empires:

  • پس بنالی که نخواهم ملکها ** ملک آن سجده مسلم کن مرا
  • Then thou wilt cry (in humble entreaty), “I desire not kingdoms: commit unto me the kingdom of that prostration.”

  • پادشاهان جهان از بدرگی ** بو نبردند از شراب بندگی
  • The kings of the world, because of their evil nature, got no scent of the wine of service (to God);

  • ورنه ادهم‌وار سرگردان و دنگ ** ملک را برهم زدندی بی‌درنگ
  • Otherwise, dizzy and dumbfounded like (Ibráhim son of) Adham, without delay they would have dashed their sovereignty to pieces.

  • لیک حق بهر ثبات این جهان ** مهرشان بنهاد بر چشم و دهان
  • But (this they do not inasmuch as), for the maintenance of this world, God set a seal upon their eyes and mouths,

  • تا شود شیرین بریشان تخت و تاج ** که ستانیم از جهانداران خراج 670
  • To the end that throne and crown should be sweet to them, "for" (they say) "we will exact tribute from the rulers of the world."

  • از خراج ار جمع آری زر چو ریگ ** آخر آن از تو بماند مردریگ
  • If by way of tribute thou amass gold as (though it were) sand, at last it will be left behind thee as an inheritance.

  • همره جانت نگردد ملک و زر ** زر بده سرمه ستان بهر نظر
  • Sovereignty and gold will not accompany thy spirit on its journey: give thy gold away, get collyrium for thy sight,

  • تا ببینی کین جهان چاهیست تنگ ** یوسفانه آن رسن آری به چنگ
  • In order that thou mayst see that this world is a narrow well, and that, like Joseph, thou mayst grasp that rope,