اهل تن را جمله علم بالقلم ** واسطه افراشت در بذل کرم
For all those who are attached to the body He (God), in profusion of bounty, raised (the banner of) “He taught by the pen” as the means (of acquiring knowledge).
هر حریصی هست محروم ای پسر ** چون حریصان تگ مرو آهسته‌تر595
O son, every greedy person is deprived (of spiritual blessings): do not thou run like the greedy, (go) more slowly.
اندر آن ره رنجها دیدند و تاب ** چون عذاب مرغ خاکی در عذاب
On that journey they (the townsman's party) suffered pains and anguish like the torment of a land-bird in fresh water.
سیر گشته از ده و از روستا ** وز شکرریز چنان نا اوستا
They became sick of the village and the country and of the sugared expressions of such an uninstructed boor.
رسیدن خواجه و قومش به ده و نادیده و ناشناخته آوردن روستایی ایشان را
How the Khwája and his kinsfolk arrived at the village, and how the countryman pretended not to see or recognise them:
بعد ماهی چون رسیدند آن طرف ** بی‌نوا ایشان ستوران بی علف
When, after a month, they arrived in that quarter, themselves without provisions and their beasts without fodder,
روستایی بین که از بدنیتی ** می‌کند بعد اللتیا والتی
See how the countryman, from evil intent, still inflicts (on them) calamities small and great,
روی پنهان می‌کند زیشان بروز ** تا سوی باغش بنگشایند پوز600
And keeps his face hidden from them by day, lest they should open their mouths in the direction of his orchard.
آنچنان رو که همه رزق و شرست ** از مسلمانان نهان اولیترست
’Tis better that a face like that, which is wholly (composed of) hypocrisy and malice, should be hidden from Moslems.
رویها باشد که دیوان چون مگس ** بر سرش بنشسته باشند چون حرس
There are faces on which demons are settled like gnats, as (though they were) guardsmen.
چون ببینی روی او در تو فتند ** یا مبین آن رو چو دیدی خوش مخند
When you behold his (such a one's) face, they (the demons) fall upon you: either do not behold that face, (or) when you have beheld (it), do not laugh pleasantly.