همچنین یکسان بود آوازها ** آن یکی پر درد و آن پر نازها

همچنین یکسان بود آوازها ** آن یکی پر درد و آن پر نازها 4770

Similarly, voices are uniform (as such), (but) one is sorrowful, and another full of charms.

بانگ اسپان بشنوی اندر مصاف ** بانگ مرغان بشنوی اندر طواف

On the battle-field you may hear the cry of horses; in strolling round (a garden) you may hear the cry of birds.

آن یکی از حقد و دیگر ز ارتباط ** آن یکی از رنج و دیگر از نشاط

One (voice proceeds) from hate, and another from harmony; one from pain, and another from joy.

هر که دور از حالت ایشان بود ** پیشش آن آوازها یکسان بود

Whoever is remote from (ignorant of) their (inward) state, to him the voices are uniform.

آن درختی جنبد از زخم تبر ** و آن درخت دیگر از باد سحر

One tree is moved by blows of the axe, another tree by the breeze of dawn.

بس غلط گشتم ز دیگ مردریگ ** زانک سرپوشیده می‌جوشید دیگ 4775

Much error befell me from (I was greatly deceived by) the worthless pot, because the pot was boiling (while) covered by the lid.

جوش و نوش هرکست گوید بیا ** جوش صدق و جوش تزویر و ریا

The fervour and savour of every one says to you, “Come”— the fervour of sincerity and the fervour of imposture and hypocrisy.

گر نداری بو ز جان روشناس ** رو دماغی دست آور بوشناس

If you have not the scent (discernment derived) from the soul that recognises the face (reality), go, get for yourself a (spiritual) brain (sense) that recognises the scent.

آن دماغی که بر آن گلشن تند ** چشم یعقوبان هم او روشن کند

The brain (sense) that haunts yon Rose-garden—’tis it that makes bright the eyes of (all) Jacobs.

هین بگو احوال آن خسته‌جگر ** کز بخاری دور ماندیم ای پسر

Come now, relate what happened to that heart-sick (youth), for we have left the man of Bukhárá far behind, O son.

یافتن عاشق معشوق را و بیان آنک جوینده یابنده بود کی و من یعمل مثقال ذرة خیرا یره

How the lover found his beloved; and a discourse showing that the seeker is a finder, for he who shall do as much good as the weight of an ant shall see it (in the end).