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صحبت او خیر من لهوست و مال ** بین کرا بگذاشتی چشمی بمال
- Companionship with him is better that pastime and riches: (look and ) see whom thou hast forsaken, rub an eye!
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خود نشد حرص شما را این یقین ** که منم رزاق و خیر الرازقین
- Verily, to your greed did not this become certain, that I am the Provider and the best of them that provide?”
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آنک گندم را ز خود روزی دهد ** کی توکلهات را ضایع نهد 430
- He that giveth sustenance from Himself unto the wheat, how should He let thy acts of trust (in Him) be wasted?
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از پی گندم جدا گشتی از آن ** که فرستادست گندم ز آسمان
- For the sake of wheat thou hast become parted from Him who hath sent the wheat from Heaven.
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دعوت باز بطان را از آب به صحرا
- How the falcon invited the ducks to come from the water to the plain.
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باز گوید بط را کز آب خیز ** تا ببینی دشتها را قندریز
- Says the falcon to the duck, “Arise from the water, that thou mayst see the plains diffusing sweetness,”
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بط عاقل گویدش ای باز دور ** آب ما را حصن و امنست و سرور
- (But) the wise duck says to him, “Away, O falcon! The water is our stronghold and safety and joy.”
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دیو چون باز آمد ای بطان شتاب ** هین به بیرون کم روید از حصن آب
- The Devil is like the falcon. O ducks, make haste (to guard yourselves)! Beware, do not come out of your stronghold, the water.
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باز را گویند رو رو باز گرد ** از سر ما دست دار ای پای‌مرد 435
- They (the ducks) say to the falcon, “Begone, begone! Turn back and keep the hand off our heads, O kind friend!
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ما بری از دعوتت دعوت ترا ** ما ننوشیم این دم تو کافرا
- We are quit of thy invitation: (keep) the invitation for thyself: we will not listen to these words of thine, O infidel!
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حصن ما را قند و قندستان ترا ** من نخواهم هدیه‌ات بستان ترا
- The stronghold (the water) is (enough) for us: let the sugar and sugar-fields be thine! I do not desire thy gift: take it for thyself!