تلخ و شیرین در ژغاژغ یک شی‌اند ** نقص از آن افتاد که همدل نیند
The bitter and the sweet are one thing (alike) in respect of rattling (against each other, when poured out); the defect arises from their not being the same at heart.
گبر ترسان دل بود کو از گمان ** می‌زید در شک ز حال آن جهان
The infidel is of timorous heart, for, (judging) from opinion, he lives in doubt as to the state of that (the other) world.
He is going along the road, (but) he does not know any stage: one blind in heart steps timidly.
چون نداند ره مسافر چون رود ** با ترددها و دل پرخون رود
When the traveller does not know the way, how does he go? He goes with (many) hesitations, while his heart is full of blood (anguish).
هرکه گویدهای این‌سو راه نیست ** او کند از بیم آنجا وقف و ایست4030
If anyone says (to him), “Hey! this is not the way he will o halt there and stand still in affright.
ور بداند ره دل با هوش او ** کی رود هر های و هو در گوش او
But if his (the traveller’s) wise heart knows the way, how should every hey and ho go into his ear?
پس مشو همراه این اشتردلان ** زانک وقت ضیق و بیمند آفلان
Therefore do not journey with these camel-hearted (craven) ones, for in the hour of distress and danger they are the ones who sink;
پس گریزند و ترا تنها هلند ** گرچه اندر لاف سحر بابلند
Then they flee and leave thee alone, though in boasting they are (powerful as) the magic of Babylon.
تو ز رعنایان مجو هین کارزار ** تو ز طاوسان مجو صید و شکار
Beware! Do not thou request sybarites to fight; do not request peacocks to engage in the hunt and the chase.
طبع طاوسست و وسواست کند ** دم زند تا از مقامت بر کند4035
The carnal nature is a peacock: it tempts thee and talks idly, that it may remove thee from thy (spiritual) post.
گفتن شیطان قریش را کی به جنگ احمد آیید کی من یاریها کنم وقبیله‌ی خود را بیاری خوانم و وقت ملاقات صفین گریختن
How Satan said to the Quraysh, “Go to war with Ahmad (Mohammed), for I will aid you and call my tribe to help”; and how, when the two battle-lines confronted each other, he fled.