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  • چون رهیدی بینی اشکنجه و دمار  ** زانک ضد از ضد گردد آشکار 
  • When you are freed you will behold the torture and perdition (of the soul), because contrary is made manifest by contrary.

  • آنک در چه زاد و در آب سیاه  ** او چه داند لطف دشت و رنج چاه  3500
  • He that was born in the well (of the material world) and the black water, how should he know the pleasantness of the open country and (distinguish it from) the pain of (being in) the well?

  • چون رها کردی هوا از بیم حق  ** در رسد سغراق از تسنیم حق 
  • When, from fear of God, you have relinquished self-will, the goblet (of drink) from God's Tasním will arrive.

  • لا تطرق فی هواک سل سبیل  ** من جناب الله نحو السلسبیل 
  • Do not in your self-will make a way: ask of God's Majesty the way to Salsabíl.

  • لا تکن طوع الهوی مثل الحشیش  ** ان ظل العرش اولی من عریش 
  • Be not submissive to self-will (and yielding) like hay: in sooth the shade of the Divine Throne is better than the summer-house (of the world).

  • گفت سلطان اسپ را وا پس برید  ** زودتر زین مظلمه بازم خرید 
  • The Sultan said, “Take the horse back (to the Amír) and with all speed redeem (deliver) me from (committing) this wrong.”

  • با دل خود شه نفرمود این قدر  ** شیر را مفریب زین راس البقر  3505
  • The King did not say in his heart, “Do not (seek to) deceive the lion so greatly by means of the head of an ox.

  • پای گاو اندر میان آری ز داو  ** رو ندوزد حق بر اسپی شاخ گاو 
  • You (the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk) drag in the ox in order to cheat (me): begone, God does not stick the horns of an ox upon a horse.”

  • بس مناسب صنعتست این شهره زاو  ** کی نهد بر جسم اسپ او عضو گاو 
  • This renowned Master-builder observes great congruity in His workmanship: how should He attach to a horse's body part of (the body of) an ox?

  • زاو ابدان را مناسب ساخته  ** قصرهای منتقل پرداخته 
  • The Master-builder has made (all) bodies congruously: He has constructed moving palaces,