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گیر عالم پر بود خورشید و نور ** چون روی در ظلمتی مانند گور
- Suppose the world is full of sun and light: when thou goest into a darkness like the grave,
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بی نصیب آیی از آن نور عظیم ** بسته‌روزن باشی از ماه کریم
- Thou becomest without (any) share in that great light; thou art window-shut to the bounteous moon.
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تو درون چاه رفتستی ز کاخ ** چه گنه دارد جهانهای فراخ 2830
- Thou hast gone from the belvedere into the pit: how are the spacious worlds to blame (for their being invisible to thee)?
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جان که اندر وصف گرگی ماند او ** چون ببیند روی یوسف را بگو
- The soul that has remained in the quality of wolfishness, how should it behold the face of Joseph? Say!
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لحن داودی به سنگ و که رسید ** گوش آن سنگین دلانش کم شنید
- The music of David reached (affected) rock and mountain, (but) the ears of those stony-hearted ones heard it not.
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آفرین بر عقل و بر انصاف باد ** هر زمان والله اعلم بالرشاد
- Blessing ever be on reason and justice!—and God best knoweth the right way.
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صدقوا رسلا کراما یا سبا ** صدقوا روحا سباها من سبا
- Believe noble Messengers, O Sabá! Believe a spirit made captive by Him who captured it.
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صدقوهم هم شموس طالعه ** یومنوکم من مخازی القارعه 2835
- Believe them—they are rising suns—and they will preserve thee from the ignominies of al-Qári‘a.
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صدقوهم هم بدور زاهره ** قبل ان یلقوکم بالساهره
- Believe them—they are shining full-moons—ere they confront thee with al- Sáhira.
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صدقوهم هم مصابیح الدجی ** اکرموهم هم مفاتیح الرجا
- Believe them—they are the lamps of darkness; honour them— they are the keys of hope.
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صدقوا من لیس یرجو خیرکم ** لا تضلوا لا تصدوا غیرکم
- Believe those who hope not for your bounty; do not go astray, do not turn others away (from the Truth).
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پارسی گوییم هین تازی بهل ** هندوی آن ترک باش ای آب و گل
- Let us speak Persian: come, abandon Arabic. Be the Hindú (slave) of that Turcoman (the Divine Beloved), O (man of) water and clay.
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هین گواهیهای شاهان بشنوید ** بگرویدند آسمانها بگروید 2840
- Hark, listen to the testimonies of the (spiritual) kings; the heavens have believed (them): believe ye!
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معنی حزم و مثال مرد حازم
- The meaning of prudence, and a parable of the prudent man.
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یا به حال اولینان بنگرید ** یا سوی آخر بحزمی در پرید
- Either consider what happened to the former (peoples), or fly with a (great) prudence towards the latter end.
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حزم چه بود در دو تدبیر احتیاط ** از دو آن گیری که دورست از خباط
- What is prudence? Precaution in (the case of) two (alternative) plans: of the two you will take that one which is far from craziness.
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آن یکی گوید درین ره هفت روز ** نیست آب و هست ریگ پای‌سوز
- One person may say, “On this road there is no water for seven days, and there is foot-scorching sand.”
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آن دگر گوید دروغست این بران ** که بهر شب چشمه‌ای بینی روان
- Another may say, “This is false: push on, for you will find a running fountain every night.”
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حزم آن باشد که بر گیری تو آب ** تا رهی از ترس و باشی بر صواب 2845
- It is prudence that you take water (with you), so that you may be saved from dread and may be on the right (side).
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گر بود در راه آب این را بریز ** ور نباشد وای بر مرد ستیز
- If there be water (on the road), spill this (water which you have taken with you); and if there be none, alas for the obstinate man!
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ای خلیفه‌زادگان دادی کنید ** حزم بهر روز میعادی کنید
- O children of the Vicegerent (Adam), deal justly: act with prudence for the sake of the Day of Tryst (Judgement).
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آن عدوی کز پدرتان کین کشید ** سوی زندانش ز علیین کشید
- That enemy who took vengeance upon your father and dragged him from ‘Illiyyín to prison,
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آن شه شطرنج دل را مات کرد ** از بهشتش سخره‌ی آفات کرد
- And checkmated that king of the spiritual chessboard and made him, (cast out) from Paradise, a thrall to calamities—
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چند جا بندش گرفت اندر نبرد ** تا بکشتی در فکندش روی‌زرد 2850
- How often in combat did he seize him by sleight, that he might wrestle with him and throw him (to the ground) in disgrace!
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اینچنین کردست با آن پهلوان ** سست سستش منگرید ای دیگران
- Thus hath he done to that paladin (Adam): do not regard him with contempt, O ye others!
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مادر و بابای ما را آن حسود ** تاج و پیرایه بچالاکی ربود
- That envious one nimbly snatched away our mother's and father's crown and ornament.