جزو بادی که به حکم ما درست ** بادبیزن تا نجنبانی نجست
The portion of wind (air) that is in our control does not stir till you move the fan.
جنبش این جزو باد ای ساده مرد ** بی‌تو و بی‌بادبیزن سر نکرد
Without you and without the fan the movement of this portion of wind (air) does not arise, O simpleton.
جنبش باد نفس کاندر لبست ** تابع تصریف جان و قالبست
The movement of the wind of the breath, which is on the lips, follows the course directed by the spirit and the body.
گاه دم را مدح و پیغامی کنی ** گاه دم را هجو و دشنامی کنی130
At one time you make the breath to be a eulogy and a (pleasing) message; at another time you make the breath to be a satire and a foul speech.
پس بدان احوال دیگر بادها ** که ز جز وی کل می‌بیند نهی
Understand, then, (from this case) the cases of other winds; for from a part the intellect perceives the whole.
باد را حق گه بهاری می‌کند ** در دیش زین لطف عاری می‌کند
God sometimes makes the wind vernal: in December He divests it of this kindliness.
بر گروه عاد صرصر می‌کند ** باز بر هودش معطر می‌کند
He makes it a sarsar (intensely cold and violent) for the people of ‘Ád; again, He makes it perfumed (balmy) for Húd.
می‌کند یک باد را زهر سموم ** مر صبا را می‌کند خرم‌قدوم
One wind He makes (deadly as) the poison of the simoom; He (also) makes the advent of the east-wind to be delightful.
باد دم را بر تو بنهاد او اساس ** تا کنی هر باد را بر وی قیاس135
He hath founded (stablished) the wind of the breath in you, in order that thereby you may judge analogically of every (other) wind.
دم نمی‌گردد سخن بی‌لطف و قهر ** بر گروهی شهد و بر قومیست زهر
The breath does not become speech without (assuming the quality of) gentleness or harshness: it is honey for one set of people and poison for another class.