هرچه خواهد خاطر تو وا مگیر ** تا نگردد صبر و پرهیزت زحیر

Do not withhold anything that your inclination craves, lest your self-restraint and abstinence turn to gripes.

صبر و پرهیز این مرض را دان زیان ** هرچه خواهد دل در آرش در میان 1325

Know that self-restraint and abstinence are injurious to this disease: proffer to your heart whatever it may desire.

این چنین رنجور را گفت ای عمو ** حق تعالی اعملوا ما شتم

O uncle, (it was) in reference to a sick man like this (that) God most High said, ‘Do what ye will.”

گفت رو هین خیر بادت جان عم ** من تماشای لب جو می‌روم

He (the sick man) said, “(Now) go; look you, my dear nephew, I am going for a walk on the bank of the river.”

بر مراد دل همی‌گشت او بر آب ** تا که صحت را بیابد فتح باب

He was strolling beside the water, as his heart desired, in order that he might find the door to health opened to him.

بر لب جو صوفیی بنشسته بود ** دست و رو می‌شست و پاکی می‌فزود

On the river-bank a Súfí was seated, washing his hands and face and cleansing himself more and more.

او قفااش دید چون تخییلیی ** کرد او را آرزوی سیلیی 1330

He saw the nape of his (the Súfí's) neck and, like a crazy man, felt a longing to give it a slap;

بر قفای صوفی حمزه‌پرست ** راست می‌کرد از برای صفع دست

(So) he raised his hand to inflict a blow on the nape of the pottage-worshipping Súfí,

کارزو را گر نرانم تا رود ** آن طبیبم گفت کان علت شود

Saying (to himself), “The physician told me it would make me ill if I would not let my desire have its way.

سیلیش اندر برم در معرکه ** زانک لا تلقوا بایدی تهلکه

I will give him a slap in quarrel, for (God hath said), ‘Do not cast yourselves with your own hands into destruction.’