-
گفت گیر این رقعه کش آثار نیست ** تو بدین اولیتری کت کار نیست
- “Take this scroll,” said he, “which has no (good) effects; you are the fittest (owner) for it, since you have no work.
-
نیست این کار کسی کش هست کار ** که بسوزد گل بگردد گرد خار
- It is no use for one who has work (to do) that he should burn the rose and go about (busy himself with) the thorn.
-
نادر افتد اهل این ماخولیا ** منتظر که روید از آهن گیا
- ’Tis singular (how) the victims of this melancholy madness expect grass to grow from iron.
-
سخت جانی باید این فن را چو تو ** تو که داری جان سخت این را بجو
- This specialty needs a man of stout heart like you: do you, who have a stout heart, search for this (treasure).
-
گر نیابی نبودت هرگز ملال ** ور بیابی آن به تو کردم حلال 1965
- If you cannot find it, you will never weary (of seeking); and if you find it, I grant you the right of possession.”
-
عقل راه ناامیدی کی رود ** عشق باشد کان طرف بر سر دود
- How should Reason wend the way of despair? ’Tis Love that runs on its head in that direction.
-
لاابالی عشق باشد نی خرد ** عقل آن جوید کز آن سودی برد
- Love is reckless, not Reason: Reason seeks that from which it may get some profit.
-
ترک‌تاز و تن‌گداز و بی‌حیا ** در بلا چون سنگ زیر آسیا
- (The lover is) fierce in onset and body-consuming and unabashed: in tribulation, like the nether millstone;
-
سخت‌رویی که ندارد هیچ پشت ** بهره‌جویی را درون خویش کشت
- A hard-faced one that has no back: he has killed in himself the seeking of self-interest.
-
پاک می‌بازد نباشد مزدجو ** آنچنان که پاک می‌گیرد ز هو 1970
- He gambles (everything) clean away, he seeks no reward, even as he receives (everything) clean (as a free gift) from Him (God).