کان درختان را نهایت چیست بر ** گر چه یکسانند این دم در نظر

(And knows) what (different) fruit those trees will ultimately bear, though at this moment they are alike in appearance'?

شیخ کاو ینظر بنور الله شد ** از نهایت وز نخست آگاه شد

The Shaykh who has become seeing by the light of God has become acquainted with the end and the beginning.

چشم آخر بین ببست از بهر حق ** چشم آخر بین گشاد اندر سبق‏

He has shut for God's sake the eye that sees the stable the world); he has opened, in priority, the eye that sees the en .

آن حسودان بد درختان بوده‏اند ** تلخ گوهر شور بختان بوده‏اند

Those envious ones were bad trees; they were ill-fortuned ones of bitter stock.

از حسد جوشان و کف می‏ریختند ** در نهانی مکر می‏انگیختند 1570

They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret,

تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند

That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;

چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود

(But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?

شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده‏

The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.

در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** می‏زدی خنبک بر آن کوزه‏گران‏

In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).

مکر می‏سازند قومی حیله‏مند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند 1575

Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug;