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  • زین یپنلو هر که بازرگان‌ترست  ** بر سره و بر قلب‌ها دیده‌ورست  4285
  • The shrewdest traders in this mart (carefully) inspect the genuine and spurious wares.

  • شد یپنلو مر ورا دار الرباح  ** وآن گر را از عمی دار الجناح 
  • To him (such an one) the mart is a place of gain, while to others in their blindness it is a place of loss.

  • هر یکی ز اجزای عالم یک به یک  ** بر غبی بندست و بر استاد فک 
  • Every particle of the world, one by one, is a fetter for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

  • بر یکی قندست و بر دیگر چو زهر  ** بر یکی لطفست و بر دیگر چو قهر 
  • It is (sweet as) candy for one and (bitter) as poison for another: it is (beautiful as) mercy for one and (terrible) as wrath for another.

  • هر جمادی با نبی افسانه‌گو  ** کعبه با حاجی گواه و نطق‌خو 
  • Every inanimate thing tells a tale to the Prophet: the Ka‘ba testifies to the pilgrim and is eloquent (on his behalf).

  • بر مصلی مسجد آمد هم گواه  ** کو همی‌آمد به من از دور راه  4290
  • The mosque, too, bears witness to him who performs the ritual prayer, saying, “He came a long way to (visit) me.”

  • با خلیل آتش گل و ریحان و ورد  ** باز بر نمرودیان مرگست و درد 
  • The fire is (like) flowers and sweet basils and roses to (one like) Khalíl (Abraham); to those like Nimrod, on the contrary, it is death and anguish.

  • بارها گفتیم این را ای حسن  ** می‌نگردم از بیانش سیر من 
  • We have said this many a time, O Hasan: I will never be weary of setting it forth.

  • بارها خوردی تو نان دفع ذبول  ** این همان نانست چون نبوی ملول 
  • Many a time have you eaten bread to prevent (yourself from) getting thin: ’tis the same bread: why are not you surfeited?

  • در تو جوعی می‌رسد تو ز اعتلال  ** که همی‌سوزد ازو تخمه و ملال 
  • (Because), in normal health, a new hunger comes to you, by which indigestion and satiety are consumed.

  • هرکه را درد مجاعت نقد شد  ** نو شدن با جزو جزوش عقد شد  4295
  • When one actually feels the pangs of hunger, a (sense of) refreshment is associated with every part (of the body).

  • لذت از جوعست نه از نقل نو  ** با مجاعت از شکر به نان جو 
  • The pleasure (of eating) is (derived) from hunger, not from new dessert (viands): hunger makes barley-bread more delicious than sugar.

  • پس ز بی‌جوعیست وز تخمه‌ی تمام  ** آن ملالت نه ز تکرار کلام 
  • That weariness, then, is caused by lack of hunger (ardour) and complete (spiritual) indigestion, not by repetition of the discourse.

  • چون ز دکان و مکاس و قیل و قال  ** در فریب مردمت ناید ملال 
  • How is it that you are not weary of your shop and of haggling and disputing in order to cheat people?

  • چون ز غیبت و اکل لحم مردمان  ** شصت سالت سیریی نامد از آن 
  • How is it that you have not been surfeited by speaking ill of men in their absence and backbiting them for sixty years?

  • عشوه‌ها در صید شله‌ی کفته تو  ** بی ملولی بارها خوش گفته تو  4300
  • Time after time, without wearying, you have gaily spoken false words of flattery in pursuit of a vile woman; [Time after time, without wearying, you have gaily spoken false words of flattery in pursuit of a ruptured (deflowered) vulva;]

  • بار آخر گوییش سوزان و چست  ** گرم‌تر صد بار از بار نخست 
  • And the last time you utter them with fire and energy, a hundred times more ardently than the first time.

  • درد داروی کهن را نو کند  ** درد هر شاخ ملولی خو کند 
  • Passion makes the old medicine new; passion lops every bough of weariness.

  • کیمیای نو کننده دردهاست  ** کو ملولی آن طرف که درد خاست 
  • Passion is the elixir that makes (things) new: how (can there be) weariness where passion has arisen?

  • هین مزن تو از ملولی آه سرد  ** درد جو و درد جو و درد درد 
  • Oh, do not sigh heavily from weariness: seek passion, seek passion, passion, passion!

  • خادع دردند درمان‌های ژاژ  ** ره‌زنند و زرستانان رسم باژ  4305
  • Vain remedies (only) beguile (true) passion: they are (like) brigands and those who extort money in the form of tolls.

  • آب شوری نیست در مان عطش  ** وقت خوردن گر نماید سرد و خوش 
  • A briny water is no remedy for thirst: (even) if it seem cold and delicious at the moment of drinking,

  • لیک خادع گشته و مانع شد ز جست  ** ز آب شیرینی کزو صد سبزه رست 
  • Yet it beguiles (you) and prevents (you) from seeking the sweet water by which a hundred plants are made to grow.

  • هم‌چنین هر زر قلبی مانعست  ** از شناس زر خوش هرجا که هست 
  • Likewise every piece of spurious gold prevents (you) from recognising the good (genuine) gold wherever it is (to be found).

  • پا و پرت را به تزویری برید  ** که مراد تو منم گیر ای مرید 
  • It (the spurious gold) cuts off your feet and (clips) your wings by imposture, saying, “I am what you seek: take me, O seeker.”