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

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,

ریختی بر سر به پیش شاه خاک ** تا امان دیدی ز دیو سهمناک

And scatter earth on his head before the King, that he might find security from the frightful Devil.

میر دیدی خویش را ای کم ز مور ** زان ندیدی آن موکل را تو کور

(But) you, O less than an ant, deemed yourself a prince: hence, blind (as you are), you did not see that custodian.

غره گشتی زین دروغین پر و بال ** پر و بالی کو کشد سوی وبال

You were deluded by these false wings and plumes—the wings and plumes that lead to woe.

پر سبک دارد ره بالا کند ** چون گل‌آلو شد گرانیها کند

(If) he keep his wings light (unencumbered), he journeys upward; when he becomes defiled with earth, he makes heavinesses (which weigh him down).

لاابالی گفتن عاشق ناصح و عاذل را از سر عشق

How the lover, impelled by love, said “I don't care” to the person who counselled and scolded him.