شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود

شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود 1325

At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image.

هر که دندان ضعیفی می‌‌کند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین می‌‌کند

Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.

ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم‌‌

O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!

مومنان آیینه‌‌ی همدیگرند ** این خبر می‌‌از پیمبر آورند

The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.

پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود

You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.

گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌ 1330

Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else).

مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود

If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?

چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی‌‌

Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.

اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن‌‌

Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!

تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور

Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.