از بر حق می‌‌رسد تفضیلها ** باز هم از حق رسد تبدیلها
From God come preferments (to high position), from God also come changes (which bring one to low estate).
حق به دور و نوبت این تایید را ** می‌‌نماید اهل ظن و دید را
God in (due) course and turn is ever displaying this (Divine) aid to doubters and seers (alike).
پند دادن خرگوش نخجیران را که بدین شاد مشوید
How the hare admonished the beasts, saying, “Do not rejoice in this!”
هین به ملک نوبتی شادی مکن ** ای تو بسته‌‌ی نوبت آزادی مکن
Take heed! Do not exult in a kingdom bestowed in turns (passing from one to another), O thou who art the bondsman of Vicissitude, do not act as though thou wert free!
آن که ملکش برتر از نوبت تنند ** برتر از هفت انجمش نوبت زنند1370
(But) those for whom is prepared a kingdom beyond Vicissitude, for them the drums (of sovereignty) are beaten beyond the Seven Planets.
برتر از نوبت ملوک باقی‌‌اند ** دور دایم روحها با ساقی‌‌اند
Beyond Vicissitude are the kings everlasting: their spirits are circling with the Cupbearer perpetually.
ترک این شرب ار بگویی یک دو روز ** در کنی اندر شراب خلد پوز
If thou wilt renounce this drinking (of worldly pleasures) for a day or two (for thy brief lifetime), thou wilt dip thy mouth in the drink of Paradise.
تفسیر رجعنا من الجهاد الاصغر الی الجهاد الاکبر
Commentary on (the Tradition) “We have returned from the lesser Jihád to the greater Jihád.”
ای شهان کشتیم ما خصم برون ** ماند خصمی زو بتر در اندرون
O kings, we have slain the outward enemy, (but) there remains within (us) a worse enemy than he.
کشتن این کار عقل و هوش نیست ** شیر باطن سخره‌‌ی خرگوش نیست
To slay this (enemy) is not the work of reason and intelligence: the inward lion is not subdued by the hare.
دوزخ است این نفس و دوزخ اژدهاست ** کاو به دریاها نگردد کم و کاست1375
This carnal self (nafs) is Hell, and Hell is a dragon (the fire of) which is not diminished by oceans (of water).
هفت دریا را در آشامد هنوز ** کم نگردد سوزش آن خلق سوز
It would drink up the Seven Seas, and still the blazing of that consumer of all creatures would not become less.