تا که عدل ما قدم بیرون نهد ** در جزا هر زشت را درخور دهد

To the end that Our justice may step forth and bestow in retribution what is appropriate to every evil-doer;

که آن شهی که می‌ندیدندیش فاش ** بود با ایشان نهان اندر معاش

For the King, whom they were not seeing openly, was (always) with them secretly in their lives.”

چون خرد با تست مشرف بر تنت ** گر چه زو قاصر بود این دیدنت

Inasmuch as the intellect is with thee, overseeing thy body, and though this perception of thine is unable to apprehend it,

نیست قاصر دیدن او ای فلان ** از سکون و جنبشت در امتحان

(Yet) its perception, O such and such, is not unable to apprehend thy motion and rest when it tries,

چه عجب گر خالق آن عقل نیز ** با تو باشد چون نه‌ای تو مستجیز 3680

What wonder if the Creator of that intellect too is with thee? How art thou not conceding (the truth of that)?

از خرد غافل شود بر بد تند ** بعد آن عقلش ملامت می‌کند

He (some one) pays no heed to his intellect and embarks on evil; afterwards his intellect rebukes him.

تو شدی غافل ز عقلت عقل نی ** کز حضورستش ملامت کردنی

You forgot your intellect, your intellect did not (forget you), since that act of rebuke is the result of its presence (attention).

گر نبودی حاضر و غافل بدی ** در ملامت کی ترا سیلی زدی

If it had not been present (attentive) and had been heedless, how should it have slapped you in rebuke?

ور ازو غافل نبودی نفس تو ** کی چنان کردی جنون و تفس تو

And if your carnal soul had not been inattentive to it, how should your madness and heat have acted thus?

پس تو و عقلت چو اصطرلاب بود ** زین بدانی قرب خورشید وجود 3685

Hence you and your intellect are like the astrolabe: by this means you may know the nearness of the Sun of existence.