- “I am free from self-interest: hear the testimony of a freeman, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barleycorns.”
- از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنو ** که گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو
- In the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.
- در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را ** نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا
- (Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.
- گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه
- In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude, 3815
- بنده‌‌ی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق
- For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.
- کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر
- The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.
- بنده‌‌ی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص
- He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.
- در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست
- He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.
- در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمی‌‌یابم رسن
- I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed. 3820
- بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود
- (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.
- این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است