گر تو جایی خفته باشی با خطر ** اژدها در قصد تو از سوی سر

If you are asleep in a perilous place, and a dragon is approaching you from a spot close at hand,

مهربانی مر ترا آگاه کرد ** که بجه زود ار نه اژدرهات خورد

And a kindly person has made you aware (of it), saying, ‘Jump up quickly, or else the dragon will devour you’—

تو بگویی فال بد چون می‌زنی ** فال چه بر جه ببین در روشنی

If you say, ‘Why are you uttering an evil presage?’ (he will reply), ‘What (evil) presage? Jump up and see in the light of day.

از میان فال بد من خود ترا ** می‌رهانم می‌برم سوی سرا

I myself will deliver you from the midst of the evil presage and will take you home.’

چون نبی آگه کننده‌ست از نهان ** کو بدید آنچ ندید اهل جهان 2960

He (such a person) is one that acquaints (you) with things hidden, like the prophet who has seen what the people of this world have not seen.

گر طبیبی گویدت غوره مخور ** که چنین رنجی بر آرد شور و شر

If a physician say to you, ‘Do not eat unripe grapes, for such an illness (as is caused by them) will produce (grave) trouble and mischief,’

تو بگویی فال بد چون می‌زنی ** پس تو ناصح را مثم می‌کنی

And if you say, ‘Why are you uttering an evil presage?’— then you are making out your sincere adviser to be culpable.

ور منجم گویدت کامروز هیچ ** آنچنان کاری مکن اندر پسیچ

And if an astrologer say to you, ‘By no means set about such an affair to-day,’

صد ره ار بینی دروغ اختری ** یک دوباره راست آید می‌خری

Though you see the falsehood of the astrologer a hundred times, (yet if) it (the prediction) come true once or twice, you are eager to trust him.

این نجوم ما نشد هرگز خلاف ** صحتش چون ماند از تو در غلاف 2965

These stars of ours are never at variance (with the truth): how does their truth remain concealed from you?