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خود بدانی چون بر آری سر ز خواب ** ختم شد و الله أعلم بالصواب
- You will surely know when you lift your head from (this sensuous) sleep. ’Tis the end (of my discourse), and God knows best what is right.
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مر ترا نه قوت خوردن بدی ** نه ره و پروای قی کردن بدی
- “(If I had told you about the snake), you would not have been able to eat, nor would you have been capable of vomiting or cared (to do so).
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میشنیدم فحش و خر میراندم ** رب یسر زیر لب میخواندم
- I heard (your) abuse and went on with my work; I kept repeating under my lip (breath), ‘O Lord, make (it) easy!’
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از سبب گفتن مرا دستور نه ** ترک تو گفتن مرا مقدور نه 1925
- I had not permission to speak of the cause, and I had not power to abandon you.
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هر زمان میگفتم از درد درون ** اهد قومی إنهم لا یعلمون
- From the grief in my heart I was saying continually, ‘Guide my people; verily, they know not’.”
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سجدهها میکرد آن رسته ز رنج ** کای سعادت ای مرا اقبال و گنج
- The man that had been delivered from woe was falling on his knees and saying, “O (thou who art) my bliss, O my fortune and treasure,
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از خدا یابی جزاها ای شریف ** قوت شکرت ندارد این ضعیف
- Thou wilt get rewards from God, O noble one; this weakling has not the power to thank thee.
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شکر حق گوید ترا ای پیشوا ** آن لب و چانه ندارم و آن نوا
- God will say thanks to thee, O leader; I have not the lips and the chin and the voice for that.”
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دشمنی عاقلان زینسان بود ** زهر ایشان ابتهاج جان بود 1930
- Of this fashion is the enmity of the wise: their poison is gladness to the soul.
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دوستی ابله بود رنج و ضلال ** این حکایت بشنو از بهر مثال
- The friendship of the fool is woe and perdition: hear this tale as a parable.
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اعتماد کردن بر تملق و وفای خرس
- On putting trust in the fawningness and good faith of the bear.