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  • جنگ می‌کردند حمالان پریر ** تو مکش تا من کشم حملش چو شیر 3755
  • The day before yesterday the porters were quarrelling (and crying), “Don't you lift (it), let me lift his load (and carry it off) like a lion!”
  • زانک زان رنجش همی‌دیدند سود ** حمل را هر یک ز دیگر می‌ربود
  • Since they were seeing profit in that toil, each one was snatching the load from the other.
  • مزد حق کو مزد آن بی‌مایه کو ** این دهد گنجیت مزد و آن تسو
  • What comparison is there between God's reward and the reward given by that worthless creature? The former gives you a treasure as your reward, and the latter a groat.
  • گنج زری که چو خسپی زیر ریگ ** با تو باشد ان نباشد مردریگ
  • (God gives you) a golden treasure that remains with you when you lie (buried) under the sand and is not left as a heritage.
  • پیش پیش آن جنازه‌ت می‌دود ** مونس گور و غریبی می‌شود
  • It runs before your hearse and becomes your companion in the tomb and in the state where all is strange.
  • بهر روز مرگ این دم مرده باش ** تا شوی با عشق سرمد خواجه‌تاش 3760
  • For the sake of your death-day be dead (to self), now, so that you may be (united) with everlasting Love, O fellow-servant.
  • صبر می‌بیند ز پرده‌ی اجتهاد ** روی چون گلنار و زلفین مراد
  • Through the curtain of the struggle (against self) renunciation sees the face like a pomegranate-flower and the two tresses of the Desired One.
  • غم چو آیینه‌ست پیش مجتهد ** کاندرین ضد می‌نماید روی ضد
  • Sorrow is as a mirror before the struggler, for in this contrary there appears the face of the (other) contrary.
  • بعد ضد رنج آن ضد دگر ** رو دهد یعنی گشاد و کر و فر
  • After the (one) contrary, (which is) pain, the other contrary, that is, gladness and triumph, shows its face.
  • این دو وصف از پنجه‌ی دستت ببین ** بعد قبض مشت بسط آید یقین
  • Observe these two qualities (contraction and expansion) in the fingers of your hand: assuredly after the closing of the fist comes the opening.