وای بر احکام دیگرهای تو ** تا چه آرد بر سر و بر پای تو

Alas for your other (unjust) decisions! (Consider) what (penalty) they will bring upon your head and feet.

ظالمی را رحم آری از کرم ** که برای نفقه بادت سه درم

From kindness you take pity on a wrong-doer, saying, ‘Mayst thou have three dirhems to spend (on food)!’

دست ظالم را ببر چه جای آن ** که بدست او نهی حکم و عنان 1575

Cut off the wrong-doer’s hand: what occasion is there for you to put the control and reins in his hand?

تو بدان بز مانی ای مجهول‌داد ** که نژاد گرگ را او شیر داد

O you from whom justice is unknown, you resemble the goat that gave her milk to the wolf-cub.”

جواب دادن قاضی صوفی را

The Cadi’s reply to the Súfi.

گفت قاضی واجب آیدمان رضا ** هر قفا و هر جفا کارد قضا

The Cadi said, “It is our duty to acquiesce, whatever slap or cruelty the (Divine) destiny may bring to pass.

خوش‌دلم در باطن از حکم زبر ** گرچه شد رویم ترش کالحق مر

I am inwardly pleased with the decision (inscribed) in the (Heavenly) Scrolls, though my face has become sour—for Truth is bitter.

این دلم باغست و چشمم ابروش ** ابر گرید باغ خندد شاد و خوش

This heart of mine is an orchard, and my eye is like the cloud: (when) the cloud weeps the orchard laughs joyously and happily.

سال قحط از آفتاب خیره‌خند ** باغها در مرگ و جان کندن رسند 1580

In a year of drought the orchards are reduced to death and agony by the sun laughing unconscionably.

ز امر حق وابکوا کثیرا خوانده‌ای ** چون سر بریان چه خندان مانده‌ای

You have read in God’s Commandment (the words) and weep ye much: why have you remained grinning like a roast (sheep’s) head?

روشنی خانه باشی هم‌چو شمع ** گر فرو پاشی تو هم‌چون شمع دمع

You will be the light of the house, like the candle, if like the candle you shed showers of tears.