می‌کند او تیز از بهر تو کارد ** او سگ قحطست و تو انبان آرد

He is sharpening the knife for thee: he is (like) the starving dog, and thou (like) the bag of flour.

چون رهیدی و خدایت راه داد ** سوی زندان می‌روی چونت فتاد

After thou hast escaped and God has given thee the (open) road, thou art going (back) to prison: what is the matter with thee?

بر تو گر ده‌گون موکل آمدی ** عقل بایستی کز ایشان کم زدی

Had there been ten sorts of custodians over thee, intelligence would have been needed in order that thou might'st become quit of them.

چون موکل نیست بر تو هیچ‌کس ** از چه بسته گشت بر تو پیش و پس

Since no one is a custodian over thee, wherefore have the future and the past become sealed to thee?”

عشق پنهان کرده بود او را اسیر ** آن موکل را نمی‌دید آن نذیر 3820

Secret love had made him (the Wakíl) captive: the warner (his critic) was not seeing that custodian.

هر موکل را موکل مختفیست ** ورنه او در بند سگ طبعی ز چیست

Every custodian's custodian is hidden; else, wherefore is he (the wicked custodian) in thrall to (his) currish nature?

خشم شاه عشق بر جانش نشست ** بر عوانی و سیه‌روییش بست

The anger of Love, the King, settled upon his soul and chained him to the (base) office of a myrmidon and to ignominy.

می‌زند او را که هین او رابزن ** زان عوانان نهان افغان من

It (anger) is striking him and saying, “Hark, strike him (thy captive)!” Woe is me on account of those hidden myrmidons.

هرکه بینی در زیانی می‌رود ** گرچه تنها با عوانی می‌رود

Whomsoever you see going in a (path of) detriment, he, though (apparently) alone, is going along with a (hidden) myrmidon.

گر ازو واقف بدی افغان زدی ** پیش آن سلطان سلطانان شدی 3825

If he were aware of him, he would cry out in distress and go into the presence of the King of kings,