هیچ کس در ملک او بی‌امر او ** در نیفزاید سر یک تای مو

Without His command no one in His kingdom shall add (so much as) the tip of a single hair.

ملک ملک اوست فرمان آن او ** کمترین سگ بر در آن شیطان او

The kingdom is His kingdom, the command is His: that Devil of His is the meanest dog at His door.

ترکمان را گر سگی باشد به در ** بر درش بنهاده باشد رو و سر 2940

If a Turcoman's dog is lying at the door (of the tent), with his face and head resting on the threshold,

کودکان خانه دمش می‌کشند ** باشد اندر دست طفلان خوارمند

(Though) the children of the house keep pulling his tail, he will be humble (submissive) in the children's hands.

باز اگر بیگانه‌ای معبر کند ** حمله بر وی هم‌چو شیر نر کند

If, however, a stranger pass by, he (the dog) will rush at him like a fierce lion;

که اشداء علی الکفار شد ** با ولی گل با عدو چون خار شد

For he is hard on the unbelievers: to a friend he is (as) the rose, to an enemy as the thorn.

ز آب تتماجی که دادش ترکمان ** آنچنان وافی شدست و پاسبان

He has become so faithful and vigilant on account of the tutmáj broth that the Turcoman has given him.

پس سگ شیطان که حق هستش کند ** اندرو صد فکرت و حیلت تند 2945

The dog, then, namely the Devil, whom God causes to exist and in whom He creates a hundred thoughts and cunning plans,

آب روها را غذای او کند ** تا برد او آب روی نیک و بد

And whom He feeds with (men's) honours, so that he takes away the honour of the virtuous and the wicked—

این تتماجست آب روی عام ** که سگ شیطان از آن یابد طعام

(For) the honour of the populace is the tutmáj broth by which the Devil-dog is fed—