می‌کند آری نه از بهر نیاز ** تا که ناصح کم کند نصح دراز

He assents, not on account of sincere feeling, (but) in order that the admonisher may curtail his long admonition;

زانک این زاغ خس مردارجو ** صد هزاران مکر دارد تو به تو

For this vile carrion-seeking crow hath a hundred thousand manifold tricks.

گر پذیرند آن نفاقش را رهید ** شد نفاقش عین صدق مستفید 900

If they (the saints) accept his hypocrisy, he is saved: his hypocrisy becomes identical with the sincerity of him who benefits by instruction,

زانک آن صاحب دل با کر و فر ** هست در بازار ما معیوب‌خر

Because the august owner of the Heart is a buyer of damaged goods in our bazaar.

صاحب دل جو اگر بی‌جان نه‌ای ** جنس دل شو گر ضد سلطان نه‌ای

Seek the owner of the Heart, if thou art not soulless: become a congener of the Heart, if thou art not an adversary of the (spiritual) Sultan.

آنک زرق او خوش آید مر ترا ** آن ولی تست نه خاص خدا

(But) that one whose hypocrisy pleases thee, he is (only) thy saint, (he is) not the elect of God.

هر که او بر خو و بر طبع تو زیست ** پیش طبع تو ولی است و نبیست

Whosoever lives in accordance with thy disposition and nature seems to thy (carnal) nature to be a saint and a prophet.

رو هوا بگذار تا بویت شود ** وان مشام خوش عبرجویت شود 905

Go, renounce sensuality in order that the (spiritual) scent may be thine and that the sweet ambergris-seeking organ of smell may be thine.

از هوارانی دماغت فاسدست ** مشک و عنبر پیش مغزت کاسدست

Thy brain (organ of smell) is corrupted by sensual indulgence: to thy (olfactory) sense musk and ambergris are unsalable.

حد ندارد این سخن و آهوی ما ** می‌گریزد اندر آخر جابجا

This discourse hath no bound, and (meanwhile) our gazelle is running to and fro in flight in the stable.

بقیه‌ی قصه‌ی آهو و آخر خران

The remainder of the Story of the gazelle in the donkey-stable.