هست بر مومن شهیدی زندگی ** بر منافق مردن است و ژندگی‏

To the true believer martyrdom is life; to the hypocrite it is death and corruption.

چیست در عالم بگو یک نعمتی ** که نه محرومند از وی امتی‏

Tell (me), what single blessing is there in the world, from which some group of people is not excluded?

گاو و خر را فایده چه در شکر ** هست هر جان را یکی قوتی دگر

What profit have the ox and the ass in sugar? Every soul has a different food;

لیک گر آن قوت بر وی عارضی است ** پس نصیحت کردن او را رایضی است‏

But if that food is accidental to it (and not according to its real nature), then admonition is the (proper) correction for it.

چون کسی کاو از مرض گل داشت دوست ** گر چه پندارد که آن خود قوت اوست‏ 1080

As (in the case of) one who from disease has become fond of (eating) clay— though he may suppose that that (clay) is indeed his (natural) food,

قوت اصلی را فرامش کرده است ** روی در قوت مرض آورده است‏

He has (in reality) forgotten his original food and has betaken himself to the food of disease.

نوش را بگذاشته سم خورده است ** قوت علت همچو چوبش کرده است‏

Having given up honey, he has eaten poison; he has made the food of disease (to be his nourishment) as (though it were) fat.

قوت اصلی بشر نور خداست ** قوت حیوانی مر او را ناسزاست‏

Man's original food is the Light of God: animal food is improper for him;

لیک از علت در این افتاد دل ** که خورد او روز و شب زین آب و گل‏

But, in consequence of disease, his mind has fallen into this (delusion), that day and night he should eat of this water and clay.

روی زرد و پای سست و دل سبک ** کو غذای و السما ذات الحبک‏ 1085

(He is) pale-faced, weak-footed, faint-hearted—where is the food of by Heaven which hath (starry) tracks?