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1348-1357

  • تا نبرد تیغت اسمعیل را  ** تا کنی شه‌راه قعر نیل را 
  • So that your knife should not cut (the throat of) Ismá‘íl (Ishmael) and that you should make the depths of the Nile a (dry) highway?

  • گر سعیدی از مناره اوفتید  ** بادش اندر جامه افتاد و رهید 
  • If a blessed one fell from the minaret (and) was saved by the wind filling his raiment,

  • چون یقینت نیست آن بخت ای حسن  ** تو چرا بر باد دادی خویشتن  1350
  • Why have you, O good man, committed yourself to the wind when you are not sure of that (same) fortune?

  • زین مناره صد هزاران هم‌چو عاد  ** در فتادند و سر و سر باد داد 
  • From this minaret hundreds of thousands (of peoples) like ‘Ád fell down and gave to the wind (lost) their lives and souls.

  • سرنگون افتادگان را زین منار  ** می‌نگر تو صد هزار اندر هزار 
  • Behold those who have fallen headlong from this minaret, hundreds of thousands on thousands!

  • تو رسن‌بازی نمیدانی یقین  ** شکر پاها گوی و می‌رو بر زمین 
  • (If) you have no sure skill in rope-dancing, give thanks for your feet and walk on the ground.

  • پر مساز از کاغذ و از که مپر  ** که در آن سودا بسی رفتست سر 
  • Don't make wings of paper and fly from the (top of a) mountain, for many a head has gone (to destruction) in this craze.

  • گرچه آن صوفی پر آتش شد ز خشم  ** لیک او بر عاقبت انداخت چشم  1355
  • Although the Súfí was afire with anger, yet he cast his eye on the consequence.

  • اول صف بر کسی ماندم به کام  ** کو نگیرد دانه بیند بند دام 
  • The highest success belongs permanently to him who does not take the bait and sees (the danger of) imprisonment in the trap.

  • حبذا دو چشم پایان بین راد  ** که نگه دارند تن را از فساد 
  • How excellent are two noble end-discerning eyes that preserve the body from corruption!