چون فراموشی خلق و یادشان ** با وی است و او رسد فریادشان‌‌

Inasmuch as the forgetfulness and recollection of (God's) creatures are with him (depend on the perfect saint), and he comes at their call for help,

صد هزاران نیک و بد را آن بهی ** می‌‌کند هر شب ز دلهاشان تهی‌‌

Every night that glorious one is emptying from their hearts hundreds of thousands of good and evil (thoughts),

روز دلها را از آن پر می‌‌کند ** آن صدفها را پر از در می‌‌کند

(While) in the daytime he is filling their hearts therewith— he is filling those oyster-shells with pearls.

آن همه اندیشه‌‌ی پیشانها ** می‌‌شناسند از هدایت جانها

By (Divine) guidance (after sleep is past) all those thoughts of former things recognize the spirits (to which they were attached).

پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو 1685

Your handicraft and skill come (back) to you, that they may open to you the door of (ways and) means.

پیشه زرگر به آهنگر نشد ** خوی این خوش خو به آن منکر نشد

The goldsmith's craft did not go to the ironsmith; the disposition of the good-natured man did not go to the disagreeable one.

پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها همچون جهیز ** سوی خصم آیند روز رستخیز

On the day of Resurrection the handicrafts and dispositions will come, like articles of property, to the claimant (owner).

پیشه‌‌ها و خلقها از بعد خواب ** واپس آید هم به خصم خود شتاب‌‌

After sleep also, the handicrafts and dispositions come back in haste to him that claims them as his.

پیشه‌‌ها و اندیشه‌‌ها در وقت صبح ** هم بدانجا شد که بود آن حسن و قبح‌‌

At the hour of dawn the handicrafts and thoughts went to the same place where that good and evil (formerly) were.

چون کبوترهای پیک از شهرها ** سوی شهر خویش آرد بهرها 1690

Like carrier pigeons, they bring things useful (to know) from (other) cities to their own city.

شنیدن آن طوطی حرکت آن طوطیان و مردن آن طوطی در قفس و نوحه‌‌ی خواجه بر وی‌‌

How the parrot heard what those parrots had done, and died in the cage, and how the merchant made lament for her.