چون گرفتی عبرت از گرگ دنی ** پس تو روبه نیستی شیر منی‌‌

Since thou hast taken warning from (the fate of) the vile wolf, thou art not a fox: thou art my own lion.

عاقل آن باشد که عبرت گیرد از ** مرگ یاران در بلای محترز

The wise man is he that in (the hour of) the shunned tribulation takes warning from the death of his friends.”

روبه آن دم بر زبان صد شکر راند ** که مرا شیر از پی آن گرگ خواند 3115

At that moment the fox uttered a hundred thanksgivings, saying, "(How lucky) that the lion called me up after the wolf.

گر مرا اول بفرمودی که تو ** بخش کن این را که بردی جان از او

If he had bidden me first, saying, ‘Do thou divide this,’ who would have escaped from him with his life?”

پس سپاس او را که ما را در جهان ** کرد پیدا از پس پیشینیان‌‌

Thanks be to Him (God), then, that He caused us to appear (be born) in the world after those of old,

تا شنیدیم آن سیاستهای حق ** بر قرون ماضیه اندر سبق‌‌

So that we heard of the chastisements which God inflicted upon the past generations in the preceding time,

تا که ما از حال آن گرگان پیش ** همچو روبه پاس خود داریم بیش‌‌

That we, like the fox, may keep better watch over ourselves from (considering) the fate of those ancient wolves.

امت مرحومه زین رو خواندمان ** آن رسول حق و صادق در بیان‌‌ 3120

On this account he that is God's prophet and veracious in explanation called us “a people on which God has taken mercy.”

استخوان و پشم آن گرگان عیان ** بنگرید و پند گیرید ای مهان‌‌

Behold with clear vision the bones and fur of those wolves, and take warning, O mighty ones!

عاقل از سر بنهد این هستی و باد ** چون شنید انجام فرعونان و عاد

The wise man will put off from his head (lay aside) this self-existence and wind (of vanity), since he heard (what was) the end of the Pharaohs and ‘Ád;