Since thou hast taken warning from (the fate of) the vile wolf, thou art not a fox: thou art my own lion.
چون گرفتی عبرت از گرگ دنی ** پس تو روبه نیستی شیر منی
The wise man is he that in (the hour of) the shunned tribulation takes warning from the death of his friends.”
عاقل آن باشد که عبرت گیرد از ** مرگ یاران در بلای محترز
At that moment the fox uttered a hundred thanksgivings, saying, "(How lucky) that the lion called me up after the wolf.3115
روبه آن دم بر زبان صد شکر راند ** که مرا شیر از پی آن گرگ خواند
If he had bidden me first, saying, ‘Do thou divide this,’ who would have escaped from him with his life?”
گر مرا اول بفرمودی که تو ** بخش کن این را که بردی جان از او
Thanks be to Him (God), then, that He caused us to appear (be born) in the world after those of old,
پس سپاس او را که ما را در جهان ** کرد پیدا از پس پیشینیان
So that we heard of the chastisements which God inflicted upon the past generations in the preceding time,
تا شنیدیم آن سیاستهای حق ** بر قرون ماضیه اندر سبق
That we, like the fox, may keep better watch over ourselves from (considering) the fate of those ancient wolves.
تا که ما از حال آن گرگان پیش ** همچو روبه پاس خود داریم بیش
On this account he that is God's prophet and veracious in explanation called us “a people on which God has taken mercy.”3120
امت مرحومه زین رو خواندمان ** آن رسول حق و صادق در بیان
Behold with clear vision the bones and fur of those wolves, and take warning, O mighty ones!
استخوان و پشم آن گرگان عیان ** بنگرید و پند گیرید ای مهان
The wise man will put off from his head (lay aside) this self-existence and wind (of vanity), since he heard (what was) the end of the Pharaohs and ‘Ád;
عاقل از سر بنهد این هستی و باد ** چون شنید انجام فرعونان و عاد