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1867-1876

  • The fleshly soul was made a Pharaoh by (receiving) many praises: be lowly of spirit through meekness, do not domineer.
  • نفس از بس مدحها فرعون شد ** کن ذلیل النفس هونا لا تسد

  • So far as you can, become a slave, do not be a monarch. Suffer blows: become like the ball, do not be the bat.
  • تا توانی بنده شو سلطان مباش ** زخم کش چون گوی شو چوگان مباش‌‌

  • Otherwise, when this elegance and beauty remains with you no more, you will be loathed by those companions.
  • ور نه چون لطفت نماند وین جمال ** از تو آید آن حریفان را ملال‌‌

  • The set of people who used to flatter you deceitfully, when they behold you will call you a devil. 1870
  • آن جماعت کت همی‌‌دادند ریو ** چون ببینندت بگویندت که دیو

  • When they see you at their doors, they all will cry, “Truly a dead man has risen from the grave.”
  • جمله گویندت چو بینندت به در ** مرده‌‌ای از گور خود بر کرد سر

  • (You will be) like the beardless youth whom they address as “Lord” that by this hypocrisy they may make entrap him.
  • همچو امرد که خدا نامش کنند ** تا بدین سالوس در دامش کنند

  • As soon as he has grown a beard in infamy, the Devil is ashamed to search after him.
  • چون که در بد نامی آمد ریش او ** دیو را ننگ آید از تفتیش او

  • The Devil approaches Man for the sake of wickedness: he does not approach you because you are worse than the Devil.
  • دیو سوی آدمی شد بهر شر ** سوی تو ناید که از دیوی بتر

  • So long as you were a man the Devil was running at your heels and bidding you taste (his) wine. 1875
  • تا تو بودی آدمی دیو از پی‌‌ات ** می‌‌دوید و می‌‌چشانید او می‌‌ات‌‌

  • Since you have become confirmed in devilry, the good-for-nothing Devil is fleeing from you!
  • چون شدی در خوی دیوی استوار ** می‌‌گریزد از تو دیو نابکار