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  • The iniquity of evil-doers became (for them) a dark well: so have said all the wise.
  • چاه مظلم گشت ظلم ظالمان ** این چنین گفتند جمله عالمان‌‌

  • The more iniquitous one is, the more frightful is his well: (Divine) Justice has ordained worse (punishment) for worse (sin). 1310
  • هر که ظالمتر چهش با هول‌‌تر ** عدل فرموده ست بدتر را بتر

  • 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.
  • ای که تو از ظلم چاهی می‌‌کنی ** دان که بهر خویش دامی می‌‌کنی‌‌

  • 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).
  • گرد خود چون کرم پیله بر متن ** بهر خود چه می‌‌کنی اندازه کن‌‌

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

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

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

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

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

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