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1415-1424

  • خوی با حق نساختی چون انگبین  ** با لبن که لا احب الافلین  1415
  • He would have consorted with God as honey with milk, saying, “I love not them that set.”

  • لاجرم تنها نماندی هم‌چنان  ** که آتشی مانده به راه از کاروان 
  • (Then) assuredly he would not have remained alone, even as a fire left on the road by caravaneers.

  • چون ز بی‌صبری قرین غیر شد  ** در فراقش پر غم و بی‌خیر شد 
  • (But) since from lack of patience he associated himself with others (than God), in separation from Him he became sorrowful and deprived of good.

  • صحبتت چون هست زر ده‌دهی  ** پیش خاین چون امانت می‌نهی 
  • Since your friendship is (precious) as pure gold, how are you placing it in trust with a traitor?

  • خوی با او کن که امانتهای تو  ** آمن آید از افول و از عتو 
  • Consort with Him with whom your trusts are safe from loss and violation.

  • خوی با او کن که خو را آفرید  ** خویهای انبیا را پرورید  1420
  • Consort with Him who created (human) nature and fostered the natures of the prophets.

  • بره‌ای بدهی رمه بازت دهد  ** پرورنده‌ی هر صفت خود رب بود 
  • (If) you give (Him) a lamb, He will give you back a (whole) flock (of sheep): verily the Lord is the fosterer of every (good) quality.

  • بره پیش گرگ امانت می‌نهی  ** گرگ و یوسف را مفرما همرهی 
  • Will you entrust the lamb to the wolf? (Nay), do not tell the wolf and Joseph to travel in company with each other.

  • گرگ اگر با تو نماید روبهی  ** هین مکن باور که ناید زو بهی 
  • If the wolf show foxiness towards you (fawn upon you), beware, do not believe (him), for no goodness comes from him.

  • جاهل ار با تو نماید هم‌دلی  ** عاقبت زحمت زند از جاهلی 
  • If a churl show sympathy towards you, (yet) in the end he will inflict blows upon you because of his churlishness.