- 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
- He who (formerly) clung to your skirt fled from you when you became like this.
- آن که اندر دامنت آویخت او ** چون چنین گشتی ز تو بگریخت او
- Explanation of (the Tradition) “Whatsoever God wills cometh to pass.”
- تفسیر ما شاء الله کان