لیک آمد عصمتی دامن‌کشان ** وین که لغزیدی بد از بهر نشان

But there came (from Me) a protection, sweeping along (majestically), and thy slipping was (only) for a sign.”

عبرتی گیر اندر آن که کن نگاه ** برگ خود عرضه مکن ای کم ز کاه 505

Take a warning, look on that mountain, and do not expose thy (petty) leaf (to destruction), O thou who art less than a straw.

تفسیر و ان یکاد الذین کفروا لیزلقونک بابصارهم الایه

Commentary on “And verily those who disbelieve wellnigh cause thee to slip by their (malignant) eyes.”

یا رسول‌الله در آن نادی کسان ** می‌زنند از چشم بد بر کرکسان

“O Messenger of Allah, some persons in that assembly (of the unbelievers) smite with their (evil) eye the vultures (flying aloft).

از نظرشان کله‌ی شیر عرین ** وا شکافد تا کند آن شیر انین

By their looks the head of the lion of the jungle is cloven asunder, so that the lion makes moan.

بر شتر چشم افکند هم‌چون حمام ** وانگهان بفرستد اندر پی غلام

He (such an one) casts on a camel an eye like death, and then sends a slave after it,

که برو از پیه این اشتر بخر ** بیند اشتر را سقط او راه بر

Saying, ‘Go, buy some of the fat of this camel’: he (the slave) sees the camel fallen dead on the road.

سر بریده از مرض آن اشتری ** کو بتگ با اسب می‌کردی مری 510

(He sees) mortally stricken by disease the camel that used to vie with a horse in speed;

کز حسد وز چشم بد بی‌هیچ شک ** سیر و گردش را بگرداند فلک

For, without any doubt, from envy and (the effect of) the evil eye the celestial sphere would alter its course and revolution.”

آب پنهانست و دولاب آشکار ** لیک در گردش بود آب اصل کار

The water is hidden and the water-wheel is visible, yet as regards (the wheel's) revolution the water is the source of action.

چشم نیکو شد دوای چشم بد ** چشم بد را لا کند زیر لگد

The remedy of the evil eye is the good eye: it makes the evil eye naught beneath its kick.