مرد کم گوینده را فکرست زفت ** قشر گفتن چون فزون شد مغز رفت

The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.

پوست افزون بود لاغر بود مغز ** پوست لاغر شد چو کامل گشت و نغز

(When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.

بنگر این هر سه ز خامی رسته را ** جوز را و لوز را و پسته را

Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.

هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود 1180

Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous.

چونک در عهد خدا کردی وفا ** از کرم عهدت نگه دارد خدا

When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.

از وفای حق تو بسته دیده‌ای ** اذکروا اذکرکم نشنیده‌ای

You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.

گوش نه اوفوا به عهدی گوش‌دار ** تا که اوفی عهدکم آید ز یار

Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.

عهد و قرض ما چه باشد ای حزین ** هم‌چو دانه‌ی خشک کشتن در زمین

What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.

نه زمین را زان فروغ و لمتری ** نه خداوند زمین را توانگری 1185

From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth.

جز اشارت که ازین می‌بایدم ** که تو دادی اصل این را از عدم

(’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof Thou didst create from non-existence.