آنچ در آیینه می‌بیند جوان ** پیر اندر خشت بیند بیش از آن
That which the youth sees in the mirror the Elder sees beforehand in the (crude iron) brick.
ز امر شاه خویش بیرون آمدیم ** با عنایات پدر یاغی شدیم
(The princes said), “We have transgressed the command of our King, we have rebelled against the favours of our father.
سهل دانستیم قول شاه را ** وان عنایت‌های بی اشباه را
We have lightly esteemed the King's word and those incomparable favours.
نک در افتادیم در خندق همه ** کشته و خسته‌ی بلا بی ملحمه 3780
Lo, we all are fallen into the moat, killed and wounded by affliction without combat.
تکیه بر عقل خود و فرهنگ خویش ** بودمان تا این بلا آمد به پیش
We relied on our own intelligence and wisdom, so that this tribulation has come to pass.
بی‌مرض دیدیم خویش و بی ز رق ** آنچنان که خویش را بیمار دق
We regarded ourselves as being without disease and emancipated (from fear of death), just as one suffering from phthisis regards himself.
علت پنهان کنون شد آشکار ** بعد از آنک بند گشتیم و شکار
Now, after we have been made prisoners and a prey, the hidden malady has become apparent.”
سایه‌ی رهبر بهست از ذکر حق ** یک قناعت به که صد لوت و طبق
The shadow (protection) of the (spiritual) Guide is better than praising God (by one's self): a single (feeling of) contentment is better than a hundred viands and trays (of food).
چشم بینا بهتر از سیصد عصا ** چشم بشناسد گهر را از حصا 3785
A seeing eye is better than three hundred (blind men's) staves: the eye knows (can distinguish) pearls from pebbles.
در تفحص آمدند از اندهان ** صورت کی بود عجب این در جهان
(Moved) by sorrows (pains of love) they began to make inquiry, saying, “Who in the world, we wonder, is she of whom this is the portrait?”