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.
سبق رحمت‌راست و او از رحمتست ** چشم بد محصول قهر و لعنتست
(Divine) mercy has the precedence (over Divine wrath): it (the good eye) is (derived) from (Divine) mercy, (while) the evil eye is the product of (Divine) wrath and execration.
رحمتش بر نقمتش غالب شود ** چیره زین شد هر نبی بر ضد خود 515
His (God's) mercy overcomes His vengeance: hence every prophet prevailed over his adversary;
کو نتیجه‌ی رحمتست و ضد او ** از نتیجه‌ی قهر بود آن زشت‌رو
For he (the prophet) is the result of (Divine) mercy and is the opposite of him (the adversary): that ill-favoured one was the result of (Divine) wrath.
حرص بط یکتاست این پنجاه تاست ** حرص شهوت مار و منصب اژدهاست
The greed of the duck is single, (but) this (greed of the peacock) is fiftyfold: the greed of lust is (only) a snake, while this (greed for) eminence is a dragon.
حرص بط از شهوت حلقست و فرج ** در ریاست بیست چندانست درج
The duck's greed arises from the appetite of the gullet and pudendum, (but) twenty times as much (greed) is included in (the ambition to) rule.
از الوهیت زند در جاه لاف ** طامع شرکت کجا باشد معاف
He (who is) in power (really) pretends to Divinity: how should one ambitious of co-partnership (with God) be saved?