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1311-1335

  • ای که تو از ظلم چاهی می‌‌کنی ** دان که بهر خویش دامی می‌‌کنی‌‌
  • O you who on account of (your) high estate are committing an act of injustice, know that you are digging a well (pit) for yourself.

  • گرد خود چون کرم پیله بر متن ** بهر خود چه می‌‌کنی اندازه کن‌‌
  • Do not weave (a cocoon) round yourself, like the silkworm. You are digging a well for yourself (to fall in): dig with moderation (not too deep).

  • مر ضعیفان را تو بی‌‌خصمی مدان ** از نبی ذا جاء نصر الله خوان‌‌
  • Deem not the weak to be without a champion: recite from the Qur’án (the words), When the help of God shall come.

  • گر تو پیلی خصم تو از تو رمید ** نک جزا طیرا ابابیلت رسید
  • If you are an elephant and your foe fled from you, lo, the retribution came upon you, birds in flocks.

  • گر ضعیفی در زمین خواهد امان ** غلغل افتد در سپاه آسمان‌‌ 1315
  • If any poor man on the earth beg for mercy, a loud tumult falls on (arises among) the Host of Heaven.

  • گر بدندانش گزی پر خون کنی ** درد دندانت بگیرد چون کنی‌‌
  • If you bite him with your teeth and make him bleed, toothache will attack you—how will you do (then)?

  • شیر خود را دید در چه وز غلو ** خویش را نشناخت آن دم از عدو
  • The lion saw himself in the well, and in his fury he did not know himself at that moment from the enemy.

  • عکس خود را او عدوی خویش دید ** لا جرم بر خویش شمشیری کشید
  • He regarded his own reflexion as his enemy: necessarily he drew a sword against himself.

  • ای بسا ظلمی که بینی از کسان ** خوی تو باشد در ایشان ای فلان‌‌
  • Oh, many an iniquity that you see in others is your own nature (reflected) in them, O reader!

  • اندر ایشان تافته هستی تو ** از نفاق و ظلم و بد مستی تو 1320
  • In them shone forth all that you are in your hypocrisy and iniquity and insolence.

  • آن تویی و آن زخم بر خود می‌‌زنی ** بر خود آن دم تار لعنت می‌‌تنی‌‌
  • You are that (evil-doer), and you are striking those blows at yourself: you are weaving a curse upon yourself at that moment.

  • در خود آن بد را نمی‌‌بینی عیان ** ور نه دشمن بودیی خود را به جان‌‌
  • You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with (all) your soul.

  • حمله بر خود می‌‌کنی ای ساده مرد ** همچو آن شیری که بر خود حمله کرد
  • You are assaulting yourself, O simpleton, like the lion who made a rush at himself.

  • چون به قعر خوی خود اندر رسی ** پس بدانی کز تو بود آن ناکسی‌‌
  • When you reach the bottom of your own nature, then you will know that that vileness was from yourself.

  • شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود 1325
  • At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image.

  • هر که دندان ضعیفی می‌‌کند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین می‌‌کند
  • Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.

  • ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم‌‌
  • O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!

  • مومنان آیینه‌‌ی همدیگرند ** این خبر می‌‌از پیمبر آورند
  • The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.

  • پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود
  • You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.

  • گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌ 1330
  • Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else).

  • مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود
  • If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?

  • چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی‌‌
  • Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.

  • اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن‌‌
  • Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!

  • تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور
  • Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.

  • آب دریا جمله در فرمان تست ** آب و آتش ای خداوند آن تست‌‌ 1335
  • All the water of the sea is under Thy command; water and fire, O Lord, are Thine.