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  • هست زندان صومعه‌ی دزد و لیم ** کاندرو ذاکر شود حق را مقیم 2985
  • Prison is the cloister of the thief and villain, that there he may be constantly mindful of God.

  • چون عبادت بود مقصود از بشر ** شد عبادتگاه گردن‌کش سقر
  • Inasmuch as Divine worship was the object (in the creation) of mankind, Hellfire was made the place of worship for the rebellious.

  • آدمی را هست در هر کار دست ** لیک ازو مقصود این خدمت بدست
  • Man hath the power (of action) in everything, but this service (of God) has (ever) been the (final) object of him.

  • ما خلقت الجن و الانس این بخوان ** جز عبادت نیست مقصود از جهان
  • “I did not create the Jinn and mankind (save that they might serve Me).” Recite this (text). The (final) object of the world is naught but Divine worship.

  • گرچه مقصود از کتاب آن فن بود ** گر توش بالش کنی هم می‌شود
  • Though the (final) object of a book is the science (which it contains), (yet) if you make it a pillow (to rest on), it will become (serve as) that too;

  • لیک ازو مقصود این بالش نبود ** علم بود و دانش و ارشاد سود 2990
  • But this (function of being a) pillow was not its (final) object: it (the final object) was learning and knowledge and right guidance and profit.

  • گر تو میخی ساختی شمشیر را ** برگزیدی بر ظفر ادبار را
  • If you have made the sword a tent-pin, you have preferred defeat to victory.

  • گرچه مقصود از بشر علم و هدیست ** لیک هر یک آدمی را معبدیست
  • Although the (final) object of Man is knowledge (of God) and to be rightly directed (in religion), (yet) every man hath a particular place of worship.

  • معبد مرد کریم اکرمته ** معبد مرد لیم اسقمته
  • The place where (the means whereby) the noble man worships is your treating him with kindness; the place where (the means whereby) the vile man worships is your making him sick (your maltreating him).

  • مر لیمان را بزن تا سر نهند ** مر کریمان را بده تا بر دهند
  • Smite the vile, that they may bow their heads; give to the noble, that they may yield (good) fruit.