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  • من ز فخر انبیا سر چون کشم  ** خورده‌ام حلوا و این دم سرخوشم 
  • How, (then), should I rebel against the Glory of the prophets? I have eaten the halwá and now I am happy.”

  • پس بگفتندش که والله خواب راست  ** تو بدیدی وین به از صد خواب ماست 
  • Then they said to him, “By God, you have dreamed a true dream, and ’tis better than a hundred dreams of ours.

  • خواب تو بیداریست ای بو بطر  ** که به بیداری عیانستش اثر 
  • Your dreaming is waking, O gleeful one, for its effect (reality) is made evident by (your) waking (and eating the sweetmeat).”

  • در گذر از فضل و از جهدی و فن  ** کار خدمت دارد و خلق حسن  2500
  • Abandon eminence and (worldly) energy and skill: what matters is service (rendered to God) and a goodly disposition.

  • بهر این آوردمان یزدان برون  ** ما خلقت الانس الا یعبدون 
  • For this (object) God brought us forth (from non-existence): “I did not create mankind except to serve Me.”

  • سامری را آن هنر چه سود کرد  ** کان فن از باب اللهش مردود کرد 
  • How did that knowledge (of his) profit Sámirí, whom the skill (shown in making the golden Calf) banished from God's door?

  • چه کشید از کیمیا قارون ببین  ** که فرو بردش به قعر خود زمین 
  • What did Qárún gain by his alchemy? See how the earth bore him down to its abyss.

  • بوالحکم آخر چه بر بست از هنر  ** سرنگون رفت او ز کفران در سقر 
  • What, after all, did Bu ’l-Hakam (Abú Jahl) get from (intellectual) knowledge? On account of his unbelief he went headlong into Hell.

  • خود هنر آن داد که دید آتش عیان  ** نه کپ دل علی النار الدخان  2505
  • Know that (true) knowledge consists in seeing fire plainly, not in prating that smoke is evidence of fire.

  • ای دلیلت گنده‌تر پیش لبیب  ** در حقیقت از دلیل آن طبیب 
  • O you whose evidence in the eyes of the Sage is really more stinking than the evidence of the physician,