هزل تعلیمست آن را جد شنو ** تو مشو بر ظاهر هزلش گرو

Jesting is teaching: listen to it in earnest, do not thou be in pawn to (taken up with) its appearance of jest.

هر جدی هزلست پیش هازلان ** هزلها جدست پیش عاقلان

To jesters every earnest matter is a jest; to the wise (all) jests are earnest.

کاهلان امرودبن جویند لیک ** تا بدان امرودبن راهیست نیک 3560

Lazy folk seek the pear-tree, but ’tis a good (long) way to that pear-tree.

نقل کن ز امرودبن که اکنون برو ** گشته‌ای تو خیره‌چشم و خیره‌رو

Descend from the pear-tree on which at present thou hast become giddy-eyed and giddy-faced.

این منی و هستی اول بود ** که برو دیده کژ و احول بود

This (pear-tree) is the primal egoism and self-existence wherein the eye is awry and squinting.

چون فرود آیی ازین امرودبن ** کژ نماند فکرت و چشم و سخن

When thou comest down from this pear-tree, thy thoughts and eyes and words will no more be awry.

یک درخت بخت بینی گشته این ** شاخ او بر آسمان هفتمین

Thou wilt see that this (pear-tree) has become a tree of fortune, its boughs (reaching) to the Seventh Heaven.

چون فرود آیی ازو گردی جدا ** مبدلش گرداند از رحمت خدا 3565

When thou comest down and partest from it, God in His mercy will cause it to be transformed.

زین تواضع که فرود آیی خدا ** راست بینی بخشد آن چشم ترا

On account of this humility shown by thee in coming down, God will bestow on thine eye true vision.

راست بینی گر بدی آسان و زب ** مصطفی کی خواستی آن را ز رب

If true vision were easy and facile, how should Mustafá (Mohammed) have desired it from the Lord?