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همچنین بر می‌شمر ای مرد کار ** نسبت این از یکی کس تا هزار 70

Reckon up likewise, O man of experience, (instances of) this relativity from a single individual to a thousand.

زید اندر حق آن شیطان بود ** در حق شخصی دگر سلطان بود

Zayd, in regard to that (particular) one, may be a devil, (but) in regard to another person he may be a (beneficent) sultan.

آن بگوید زید صدیق سنیست ** وین بگوید زید گبر کشتنیست

That one will say that Zayd is an exalted siddíq (saint), and this one will say that Zayd is an infidel who ought to be killed.

زيد يك ذات است بر آن يك جنان ** او بر اين ديگر همه رنج و زيان

Zayd is one person—to that one (he is as) a shield, (while) to this other one (he is) wholly pain and loss.

گر تو خواهی کو ترا باشد شکر ** پس ورا از چشم عشاقش نگر

If you wish that to you he should be (as) sugar, then look on him with the eye of lovers.

منگر از چشم خودت آن خوب را ** بین به چشم طالبان مطلوب را 75

Do not look on that Beauteous One with your own eye: behold the Sought with the eye of seekers.

چشم خود بر بند زان خوش‌چشم تو ** عاریت کن چشم از عشاق او

Shut your own eye to that Sweet-eyed One: borrow an eye from His lovers.

بلک ازو کن عاریت چشم و نظر ** پس ز چشم او بروی او نگر

Nay, borrow eye and sight from Him, and then look on His face with His eye,

تا شوی آمن ز سیری و ملال ** گفت کان الله له زین ذوالجلال

So that you may be secure from satiety and weariness: on this account the Almighty said, “God shall belong to him:

چشم او من باشم و دست و دلش ** تا رهد از مدبریها مقبلش

I shall be his eye and hand and heart,” to the end that His fortunate one should escape from adversities.