هر وجودی کز عدم بنمود سر ** بر یکی زهرست و بر دیگر شکر

Every existence that emerged from non-existence is poison to one and sugar to another.

دوست شو وز خوی ناخوش شو بری ** تا ز خمره‌ی زهر هم شکر خوری

Be a friend (of Truth) and become quit of unsweet qualities, so that you may eat sugar even from a jar of poison.

زان نشد فاروق را زهری گزند ** که بد آن تریاق فاروقیش قند

A (deadly) poison did no harm to Fárúq (‘Umar) because to him the antidote, discrimination (fárúqí), was (sweet as) candy.