نیست دستوری بدینجا قرع باب ** جز امید الله اعلم بالصواب
Here it is not permitted to knock at the door (with importunity); naught but hope (is permissible): God best knoweth the right course.
بیان آنک ایمان مقلد خوفست و رجا
Explaining how the faith of the conventional (worldly) man consists in fear and hope.
داعی هر پیشه اومیدست و بوک ** گرچه گردنشان ز کوشش شد چو دوک
The motive in every trade is hope and chance, even though their necks are (worn thin), like a spindle, from (incessant) toil.
بامدادان چون سوی دکان رود ** بر امید و بوک روزی می‌دود
When he (the trader) goes in the morning to his shop, he is running (thither) in the hope and chance of (earning) a livelihood.
بوک روزی نبودت چون می‌روی ** خوف حرمان هست تو چونی قوی3095
(If) you have not the chance of (earning) a livelihood, why do you go (to your shop)? There is the fear (danger) of disappointment: how (then) are you strong (confident)?
خوف حرمان ازل در کسب لوت ** چون نکردت سست اندر جست و جوت
In (the case of) earning food, how has the fear of eternal (eternally predestined) disappointment not made you feeble in your search?
گویی گرچه خوف حرمان هست پیش ** هست اندر کاهلی این خوف بیش
You will say, “Though the fear of disappointment is before (me), this fear is greater (when I am) in idleness.
هست در کوشش امیدم بیشتر ** دارم اندر کاهلی افزون خطر
(When I am) at work my hope is greater: (when I am) in idleness I have more risk.”
پس چرا در کار دین ای بدگمان ** دامنت می‌گیرد این خوف زیان
Then, O evil-thinking man, why is this fear of loss holding you back in the matter of religion?
یا ندیدی کاهل این بازار ما ** در چه سودند انبیا و اولیا3100
Or have not you seen in what a gainful trade the people of this bazaar of ours, the prophets and the saints, are (engaged),
زین دکان رفتن چه کانشان رو نمود ** اندرین بازار چون بستند سود
And what mines (of treasure) have appeared to them from this going to the (spiritual) shop, and how they have gotten gain in this market?