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این مثل اندر زمانه جانی است ** جان نادانان به رنج ارزانی است
- This parable is of vital import (to the soul) in the world: the soul of the ignorant is worthy of pain (deserves to suffer.)
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زانک جاهل ننگ دارد ز اوستاد ** لاجرم رفت و دکانی نو گشاد
- Inasmuch as the ignoramus disdains his teacher, consequently he goes and opens a new shop.
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آن دکان بالای استاد ای نگار ** گنده و پر کزدمست و پر ز مار 2365
- O (you who are vain and specious as a) picture, that shop, (set up) over the teacher, is stinking and full of scorpions and snakes.
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زود ویران کن دکان و بازگرد ** سوی سبزه و گلبنان و آب‌خورد
- Quickly lay waste that shop and turn back to the greenery and the rose-tress and the watering-place;
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نه چو کنعان کو ز کبر و ناشناخت ** از که عاصم سفینه‌ی فوز ساخت
- Not like Canaan, who from pride and ignorance made of the “protecting” mountain a ship (ark) of safety.
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علم تیراندازیش آمد حجاب ** وان مراد او را بده حاضر به جیب
- His (the fakir’s) knowledge of archery became a veil (barrier) to him, while (all the time) he had that object of desire present in his bosom.
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ای بسا علم و ذکاوات و فطن ** گشته ره‌رو را چو غول و راه‌زن
- Oh, how often have knowledge and keen wits and understandings become as (deadly as) the ghoul or brigand to the wayfarer!
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بیشتر اصحاب جنت ابلهند ** تا ز شر فیلسوفی می‌رهند 2370
- Most of those destined for Paradise are simpletons (simple-minded), so that they escape from the mischief of philosophy.
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خویش را عریان کن از فضل و فضول ** تا کند رحمت به تو هر دم نزول
- Strip yourself of (useless) learning and vanity, in order that (the Divine) mercy may descend on you at every moment.
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زیرکی ضد شکستست و نیاز ** زیرکی بگذار و با گولی‌بساز
- Cleverness is the opposite of abasement and supplication: give up cleverness and sort with stupidity.