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  • 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.

  • هر چه مکرو هست چون شد او دلیل ** سوی محبوبت حبیبست و خلیل 80
  • Whatsoever is loathed is a lover and friend when it becomes thy guide towards thy beloved.

  • حکایت آن واعظ کی هر آغاز تذکیر دعای ظالمان و سخت‌دلان و بی‌اعتقادان کردی
  • Story of the preacher who at the beginning of every exhortation used to pray for the unjust and hard-hearted and irreligious.