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  • هر فریقی مر امیری را تبع ** بنده گشته میر خود را از طمع‌‌
  • Each party followed one amír and had become devoted to its own amír from desire (of worldly gain).

  • این ده و این دو امیر و قومشان ** گشته بند آن وزیر بدنشان‌‌ 460
  • These twelve amírs and their followers became in bondage to (a prey to) that vizier of evil sign.

  • اعتماد جمله بر گفتار او ** اقتدای جمله بر رفتار او
  • They all put trust in his words, they all took his procedure as a pattern.

  • پیش او در وقت و ساعت هر امیر ** جان بدادی گر بدو گفتی بمیر
  • Each amír would have given up his life in his presence at the time and hour (on the spot), if he (the vizier) had bidden him die.

  • تخلیط وزیر در احکام انجیل
  • How the vizier confused the ordinances of the Gospel.

  • ساخت طوماری به نام هر یکی ** نقش هر طومار دیگر مسلکی‌‌
  • He prepared a scroll in the name of (addressed to) each one, the (written) form of each scroll (of) a different tenor,

  • حکم‌‌های هر یکی نوعی دگر ** این خلاف آن ز پایان تا به سر
  • The ordinances of each (of) a diverse kind, this contradicting that from the end to the beginning.

  • در یکی راه ریاضت را و جوع ** رکن توبه کرده و شرط رجوع‌‌ 465
  • In one he made the path of asceticism and hunger to be the basis of repentance and the condition (necessary) for conversion.

  • در یکی گفته ریاضت سود نیست ** اندر این ره مخلصی جز جود نیست‌‌
  • In one he said: “Asceticism profits naught: in this Way there is no place (means) of deliverance but generosity.”

  • در یکی گفته که جوع و جود تو ** شرک باشد از تو با معبود تو
  • In one he said: “Your hunger and generosity are (imply) association on your part (of other objects) with (Him who is) the object of your worship.

  • جز توکل جز که تسلیم تمام ** در غم و راحت همه مکر است و دام‌‌
  • Excepting trust (in God) and complete resignation in sorrow and joy, all is a deceit and snare.”