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  • گر هنر بودی دلش را ز اختبار  ** خوار کی بودی ز صورت آن حمار 
  • How should the ass be debased by his (bodily) form, if his spirit had possessed the virtue (that is derived) from (rational) experience?

  • آن سگ اصحاب خوش بد سیرتش  ** هیچ بودش منقصت زان صورتش 
  • The dog of the Companions (of the Cave) had a goodly character: was he any the worse on account of his (bodily) form?

  • مسخ ظاهر بود اهل سبت را  ** تا ببیند خلق ظاهر کبت را 
  • The “Fellows of the Sabbath” suffered outward metamorphosis, in order that the people might behold outwardly their ignominious fall.

  • از ره سر صد هزاران دگر  ** گشته از توبه شکستن خوک و خر 
  • Through breaking (vows of) repentance a hundred thousand others have become hogs and asses inwardly.

  • دوم بار آمدن روبه بر این خر گریخته تا باز بفریبدش 
  • How the fox approached the runaway ass a second time in order to beguile him once more.

  • پس بیامد زود روبه سوی خر  ** گفت خر از چون تو یاری الحذر  2600
  • Then the fox came quickly towards the ass: the ass said, “One must beware of a friend like you.

  • ناجوامردا چه کردم من ترا  ** که به پیش اژدها بردی مرا 
  • Ignoble creature, what did I do to you that you brought me into the presence of a dragon?

  • موجب کین تو با جانم چه بود  ** غیر خبث جوهر تو ای عنود 
  • What but the malignity of your nature was the cause of your enmity to my life, O perverse one?”—

  • هم‌چو کزدم کو گزد پای فتی  ** نارسیده از وی او را زحمتی 
  • Like the scorpion, which bites a man's foot though no inconvenience has come to it from him,

  • یا چو دیوی کو عدوی جان ماست  ** نارسیده زحمتش از ما و کاست 
  • Or like the Devil who is the enemy of our souls, though no inconvenience or injury has befallen him from us;

  • بلک طبعا خصم جان آدمیست  ** از هلاک آدمی در خرمیست  2605
  • Nay, but he is naturally the adversary of the human soul and rejoices at the destruction of Man;