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گز کند کرباس پانصد گز شتاب ** ساحرانه او ز نور ماهتاب 1040
- Magician-like, it hastily measures out by the ell five hundred ells of linen from the light of the moonbeams,
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چون ستد او سیم عمرت ای رهی ** سیم شد کرباس نی کیسه تهی
- (Yet), when it takes the money, (which is) thy life, O slave, the money is gone, there is no linen, and thy purse is empty.
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قل اعوذت خواند باید کای احد ** هین ز نفاثات افغان وز عقد
- Thou must recite Say, I take refuge, crying, “O (Thou who art) One, come, save me from the witches and from (their) knots.
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می‌دمند اندر گره آن ساحرات ** الغیاث المستغاث از برد و مات
- These sorceresses are blowing on the knots: help, O Thou whose help is besought against (the world's) victory and checkmate.”
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لیک بر خوان از زبان فعل نیز ** که زبان قول سستست ای عزیز
- But invoke (Him) with the tongue of deeds also, for the tongue of words is weak, O honourable man.
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در زمانه مر ترا سه همره‌اند ** آن یکی وافی و این دو غدرمند 1045
- In the world thou hast three fellow-travellers: one is faithful and these two (others) are treacherous.
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آن یکی یاران و دیگر رخت و مال ** وآن سوم وافیست و آن حسن الفعال
- One (of the latter) is friends and the other is goods and chattels; and the third (fellow-traveller) is faithful, and that one is excellence in deeds.
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مال ناید با تو بیرون از قصور ** یار آید لیک آید تا به گور
- (Thy) wealth will not come with thee out of thy palaces; (thy) friend will come, but he will come (only) as far as thy grave.
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چون ترا روز اجل آید به پیش ** یار گوید از زبان حال خویش
- When thy day of doom comes to meet thee, thy friend will say (to himself) in the language appropriate to his sentiments,
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تا بدینجا بیش همره نیستم ** بر سر گورت زمانی بیستم
- “(I have come) as far as here: I accompany thee no farther, I will stand a (little) while at thy grave.”