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  • آینه بیرون کشید او از بغل ** خوب را آیینه باشد مشتغل‌‌ 3200
  • He drew forth the mirror from beneath his arm: the fair one's business is with a mirror.

  • آینه‌‌ی هستی چه باشد نیستی ** نیستی بر گر تو ابله نیستی‌‌
  • What is the mirror of Being? Not-being. Bring not-being (as your gift), if you are not a fool.

  • هستی اندر نیستی بتوان نمود ** مال داران بر فقیر آرند جود
  • Being can be seen (only) in not-being: the rich bestow (exhibit) generosity on the poor.

  • آینه‌‌ی صافی نان خود گرسنه ست ** سوخته هم آینه‌‌ی آتش زنه ست‌‌
  • The clear mirror of bread is truly the hungry man; tinder, likewise, is the mirror of that (the stick or flint) from which fire is struck.

  • نیستی و نقص هر جایی که خاست ** آینه‌‌ی خوبی جمله‌‌ی پیشه‌‌هاست‌‌
  • Not-being and defect, wherever they arise (appear), are the mirror which displays the excellence of all crafts.

  • چون که جامه چست و دوزیده بود ** مظهر فرهنگ درزی چون شود 3205
  • When a garment is neat and well-stitched, how should it enable the tailor to exhibit his skill?

  • ناتراشیده همی‌‌باید جذوع ** تا دروگر اصل سازد یا فروع‌‌
  • Trunks of trees must be unhewn in order that the woodcutter may fashion the stem or the branches (and thus exercise his craft).

  • خواجه‌‌ی اشکسته بند آن جا رود ** که در آن جا پای اشکسته بود
  • The doctor who sets broken bones goes to the place where the person with the fractured leg is.

  • کی شود چون نیست رنجور نزار ** آن جمال صنعت طب آشکار
  • How shall the excellence of the art of medicine be made manifest when there is no emaciated invalid?

  • خواری و دونی مسها بر ملا ** گر نباشد کی نماید کیمیا
  • How shall the (power of the) Elixir be shown if the vileness and baseness of coppers is not notorious?

  • نقصها آیینه‌‌ی وصف کمال ** و آن حقارت آینه‌‌ی عز و جلال‌‌ 3210
  • Defects are the mirror of the quality of perfection, and that vileness is the mirror of power and glory,

  • ز آن که ضد را ضد کند پیدا یقین ** ز آن که با سرکه پدید است انگبین‌‌
  • Because (every) contrary is certainly made evident by its contrary; because honey is perceived (to be sweet by contrast) with vinegar.

  • هر که نقص خویش را دید و شناخت ** اندر استکمال خود ده اسبه تاخت‌‌
  • Whoever has seen and recognised his own deficiency has galloped with ten horses (made rapid progress) in perfecting himself.

  • ز آن نمی‌‌پرد به سوی ذو الجلال ** کاو گمانی می‌‌برد خود را کمال‌‌
  • The reason why he (any one) is not flying towards the Lord of glory is that he supposes himself to be perfect.

  • علتی بدتر ز پندار کمال ** نیست اندر جان تو ای ذو دلال‌‌
  • There is no worse malady in your soul, O haughty one, than the conceit of perfection.

  • از دل و از دیده‌‌ات بس خون رود ** تا ز تو این معجبی بیرون رود 3215
  • Much blood must flow from your heart and eye, that self-complacency may go out of you.

  • علت ابلیس انا خیری بده ست ** وین مرض در نفس هر مخلوق هست‌‌
  • The fault of Iblís lay in thinking “I am better (than Adam),” and this disease is in the soul of every (human) creature.

  • گر چه خود را بس شکسته بیند او ** آب صافی دان و سرگین زیر جو
  • Though he regard himself as very broken (in spirit), know that it is (a case of) clear water (on the surface) and dung under the stream.

  • چون بشوراند ترا در امتحان ** آب سرگین رنگ گردد در زمان‌‌
  • When he (the Devil) stirs you in trial, immediately the water becomes dung-coloured.

  • در تگ جو هست سرگین ای فتی ** گر چه جو صافی نماید مر ترا
  • There is dung in the bed of the stream, my man, though to you the stream appears pure.

  • هست پیر راه دان پر فطن ** باغهای نفس کل را جوی کن‌‌ 3220
  • ’Tis the Pír full of wisdom, well-acquainted with the Way, that digs a channel for the gardens of the Universal Soul.

  • جوی خود را کی تواند پاک کرد ** نافع از علم خدا شد علم مرد
  • Who is able to cleanse the channel of his (sensual) self? Man's knowledge is made beneficial (only) by God's knowledge.

  • کی تراشد تیغ دسته‌‌ی خویش را ** رو به جراحی سپار این ریش را
  • How shall the sword fashion its own hilt? Go, entrust (the cure of) this wound to a surgeon.

  • بر سر هر ریش جمع آمد مگس ** تا نبیند قبح ریش خویش کس‌‌
  • Flies gather on every wound, so that no one sees the foulness of his wound.

  • آن مگس اندیشه‌‌ها و آن مال تو ** ریش تو آن ظلمت احوال تو
  • Those flies are your (evil) thoughts and your (love of) possessions: your wound is the darkness of your (spiritual) states;