وآن طبیب و آن منجم در لمع ** دید تعبیرش بپوشید از طمع
And the physician and the astrologer in flashes (of intelligence) saw the (true) explanation thereof, but concealed it from (motives) of cupidity.
گفت دور از دولت و از شاهیت ** که درآید غصه در آگاهیت
He (the physician) said, ‘Far be it from thy empire and kingship that anxiety should enter into thy consciousness.
از غذای مختلف یا از طعام ** طبع شوریده همی‌بیند منام
When the (human) constitution is indisposed by food that disagrees with it or by (rich) viands, it sees visions in sleep.’
زانک دید او که نصیحت‌جو نه‌ای ** تند و خون‌خواری و مسکین‌خو نه‌ای
(He said this) because he perceived that thou art not one that desires good counsel, and that thou art violent and blood-drinking and not of lowly nature.
پادشاهان خون کنند از مصلحت ** لیک رحمتشان فزونست از عنت2435
Kings shed blood for righteousness' sake, but their mercy is greater than their severity.
شاه را باید که باشد خوی رب ** رحمت او سبق دارد بر غضب
The king must have the nature of the Lord: His mercy hath precedence over His wrath.
نه غضب غالب بود مانند دیو ** بی‌ضرورت خون کند از بهر ریو
Wrath must not prevail (in the king), like (as it does in) the Devil, (so that) he sheds blood unnecessarily for the purpose of guile;
نه حلیمی مخنث‌وار نیز ** که شود زن روسپی زان و کنیز
Nor, again, (should) an effeminate mildness (prevail in him), for in consequence of that his wife and handmaids will become harlots.
دیوخانه کرده بودی سینه را ** قبله‌ای سازیده بودی کینه را
Thou hadst made thy breast a house for the Devil, thou hadst made hatred a qibla (object on which thy mind was bent).
شاخ تیزت بس جگرها را که خست ** نک عصاام شاخ شوخت را شکست2440
Many are the hearts which thy sharp horn has wounded: lo, my rod has broken thy froward horn.
حمله بردن این جهانیان بر آن جهانیان و تاختن بردن تا سینور ذر و نسل کی سر حد غیب است و غفلت ایشان از کمین کی چون غازی به غزا نرود کافر تاختن آورد
How the people of this world attack the people of that (other) world and charge (against them) as far as the frontier, namely, generation and propagation, which is the boundary of the Unseen, and how they (the people of this world) are unaware of the ambush (prepared for them); for the infidel makes his assault (only) when the holy warrior does not go to war.