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  • Do not, then, travel alone on a Way that you have not seen at all, do not turn your head away from the Guide. 2945
  • پس رهی را که ندیده ستی تو هیچ ** هین مرو تنها ز رهبر سر مپیچ‌‌

  • Fool, if his shadow (protection) be not over you, then the cry of the ghoul will keep you (wandering about) with your head in a whirl.
  • گر نباشد سایه‌‌ی او بر تو گول ** پس ترا سر گشته دارد بانگ غول‌‌

  • The ghoul will (entice you) from the Way (and) cast you into destruction: there have been in this Way many craftier than you (who have perished miserably).
  • غولت از ره افکند اندر گزند ** از تو داهی‌‌تر در این ره بس بدند

  • Hear (learn) from the Qur’án the perdition of the wayfarers, what the evil-souled Iblís did unto them:
  • از نبی بشنو ضلال رهروان ** که چشان کرد آن بلیس بد روان‌‌

  • He carried them far—a journey of hundreds of thousands of years—from the Highway, and made them backsliders and naked (devoid of good works).
  • صد هزاران ساله راه از جاده دور ** بردشان و کردشان ادبار و عور

  • Behold their bones and their hair! Take warning, and drive not your ass towards them! 2950
  • استخوانهاشان ببین و مویشان ** عبرتی گیر و مران خر سویشان‌‌

  • Seize the neck of your ass (the flesh) and lead him towards the Way, towards the good keepers and knowers of the Way.
  • گردن خر گیر و سوی راه کش ** سوی ره‌‌بانان و ره دانان خوش‌‌

  • Beware! do not let your ass go, and do not remove your hand from him, because his love is for the place where green herbs are plentiful.
  • هین مهل خر را و دست از وی مدار ** ز آن که عشق اوست سوی سبزه‌‌زار

  • If you carelessly leave him free for one moment, he will go (many) leagues in the direction of the herbage.
  • گر یکی دم تو به غفلت واهلیش ** او رود فرسنگ‌‌ها سوی حشیش‌‌

  • The ass is an enemy to the Way, (he is) madly in love with fodder: oh, many is the attendant on him that he has brought to ruin!
  • دشمن راه است خر مست علف ** ای که بس خر بنده را کرد او تلف‌‌