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قلعه را چون آب آید از برون ** در زمان امن باشد بر فزون 3600
- When (the supply of) water comes to a fortress from outside, it is more than enough in times of peace;
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چونک دشمن گرد آن حلقه کند ** تا که اندر خونشان غرقه کند
- (But) when the enemy forms a ring round that (fortress), in order that he may drown them (the garrison) in blood,
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آب بیرون را ببرند آن سپاه ** تا نباشد قلعه را زانها پناه
- The (hostile) troops cut off the outside water, that (the defenders of) the fortress may have no refuge from them.
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آن زمان یک چاه شوری از درون ** به ز صد جیحون شیرین از برون
- At that time a briny well inside (the walls) is better than a hundred sweet rivers outside.
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قاطع الاسباب و لشکرهای مرگ ** همچو دی آید به قطع شاخ و برگ
- The Cutter of cords (Death) and the armies of Death come, like December, to cut the boughs and leaves (of the body),
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در جهان نبود مددشان از بهار ** جز مگر در جان بهار روی یار 3605
- (And then) there is no succour for them in the world from Spring, except perchance the Spring of the Beloved's face in the soul.
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زان لقب شد خاک را دار الغرور ** کو کشد پا را سپس یوم العبور
- The Earth is entitled “the Abode of delusion” because she draws back her foot (and deserts you) on the day of passage.
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پیش از آن بر راست و بر چپ میدوید ** که بچینم درد تو چیزی نچید
- Before that (time) she was running right and left, saying, “I will take away thy sorrow”; but she never took anything away.
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او بگفتی مر ترا وقت غمان ** دور از تو رنج و ده که در میان
- In the hour of anxieties she would say to you, “May pain be far from thee, and (may) ten mountains (stand) between (pain and thee)!”
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چون سپاه رنج آمد بست دم ** خود نمیگوید ترا من دیدهام
- When the army of Pain arrives, she holds her breath: she will not even say, “I have seen (and been acquainted with) thee.”