Saying, “O my Creator, preserve me from its evil: do not deprive me, (but) let me partake, of its good!
رب اوزعنی لشکر ما اری ** لا تعقب حسرة لی ان مضی 3695
O my Lord, prompt me to give thanks for that which I see (receive): do not let me feel any subsequent regret, if it (the benefit received) shall pass away.”
آن ضمیر رو ترش را پاس‌دار ** آن ترش را چون شکر شیرین شمار
Pay watchful regard to the sour-looking thought: deem that sour one to be sweet as sugar.
ابر را گر هست ظاهر رو ترش ** گلشن آرنده‌ست ابر و شوره‌کش
If the cloud apparently has a sour face, (yet) the cloud is the bringer-on of the rose-garden and the destroyer of the nitrous (barren) soil.
فکر غم را تو مثال ابر دان ** با ترش تو رو ترش کم کن چنان
Know that the thought of sorrow is like the cloud: do not look so sourly on the sour!
بوک آن گوهر به دست او بود ** جهد کن تا از تو او راضی رود
It may be that the pearl (of thy desire) is in its hand: endeavour that it may depart from thee well-pleased.
ور نباشد گوهر و نبود غنی ** عادت شیرین خود افزون کنی 3700
And if the pearl be not (in its hand) and it be not rich, (yet) thou wilt increase (strengthen) thy sweet habit.
جای دیگر سود دارد عادتت ** ناگهان روزی بر آید حاجتت
Thy habit will profit thee on another occasion: some day thy need will suddenly be fulfilled.
فکرتی کز شادیت مانع شود ** آن به امر و حکمت صانع شود
The thought that hinders thee from joy comes by the command and wise purpose of the Maker.
تو مخوان دو چار دانگش ای جوان ** بوک نجمی باشد و صاحب‌قران
O youth, do not call it worthless: it may be a (happy) star and endowed with imperial fortune.