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صبح کاذب کاروانها را زدست ** که به بوی روز بیرون آمدست
- The false dawn has waylaid (many) caravans which have set out in hope of the daybreak.
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صبح کاذب خلق را رهبر مباد ** کو دهد بس کاروانها را به باد
- May the false dawn not be the people's guide! for it gives many caravans to the wind (of destruction).
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ای شده تو صبح کاذب را رهین ** صبح صادق را تو کاذب هم مبین
- O thou who hast become captive to the false dawn, do not regard the true dawn also as false.
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گر نداری از نفاق و بد امان ** از چه داری بر برادر ظن همان 1980
- If thou (thyself) hast no protection (art not exempt) from hypocrisy and wickedness, wherefore shouldst thou impute the same (vices) to thy brother?
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بدگمان باشد همیشه زشت‌کار ** نامه‌ی خود خواند اندر حق یار
- The evil-doer is always thinking ill (of others): he reads his own book as referring to his neighbour.
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آن خسان که در کژیها مانده‌اند ** انبیا را ساحر و کژ خوانده‌اند
- The wretches who have remained (sunk) in (their own) unrighteous qualities have called the prophets magicians and unrighteous;
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وآن امیران خسیس قلب‌ساز ** این گمان بردند بر حجره‌ی ایاز
- And those base Amírs, (who were) forgers of falsehood, conceived this evil thought about the chamber of Ayáz,
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کو دفینه دارد و گنج اندر آن ** ز آینه‌ی خود منگر اندر دیگران
- (Supposing) that he kept there a buried hoard and treasure. Do not look at others in the mirror of thyself!
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شاه می‌دانست خود پاکی او ** بهر ایشان کرد او آن جست و جو 1985
- The King, indeed, knew his innocence: (only) on their account was he making that investigation,
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کای امیر آن حجره را بگشای در ** نیم شب که باشد او زان بی‌خبر
- Saying, “O Amír, open the door of the chamber at midnight, when he (Ayáz) will be unaware of it,