اندریشان حرص بنهاده خدا ** تا بود گرمابه گرم و با نوا

God hath implanted cupidity in them, in order that the bath may be hot and well-provided.

ترک این تون گوی و در گرمابه ران ** ترک تون را عین آن گرمابه دان

Abandon this stove and advance into the hot-bath: know that abandonment of the stove is the very essence of that bath.

هر که در تونست او چون خادمست ** مر ورا که صابرست و حازمست

Any one who is in the stove is as a servant to him that is self-denying and on his guard.

هر که در حمام شد سیمای او ** هست پیدا بر رخ زیبای او

Whosoever has entered the bath, his (characteristic) sign is visible upon his comely face.

تونیان را نیز سیما آشکار ** از لباس و از دخان و از غبار 245

The signs of the stokers are conspicuous too—in their dress and in the smoke and dust (which blacken them).

ور نبینی روش بویش را بگیر ** بو عصا آمد برای هر ضریر

And if you see not his (the stoker's) face, smell him; smell is (as) a staff for every one that is blind;

ور نداری بو در آرش در سخن ** از حدیث نو بدان راز کهن

And if you have not (the sense of) smell, induce him to speak, and from the new talk learn the old secret.

پس بگوید تونیی صاحب ذهب ** بیست سله چرک بردم تا به شب

Then a gold-possessing stoker will say, “I have brought in twenty baskets of filth, (working from dawn) till nightfall.”

حرص تو چون آتشست اندر جهان ** باز کرده هر زبانه صد دهان

Your cupidity is like fire in the (material) world: every (flaming) tongue (thereof) has opened a hundred mouths (to swallow filthy lucre).

پیش عقل این زر چو سرگین ناخوشست ** گرچه چون سرگین فروغ آتشست 250

In the sight of Reason, this gold is foul as dung, although, like dung, it is (the cause of) the blazing of the fire.