- Tell (me), what single blessing is there in the world, from which some group of people is not excluded?
- چیست در عالم بگو یک نعمتی ** که نه محرومند از وی امتی
- What profit have the ox and the ass in sugar? Every soul has a different food;
- گاو و خر را فایده چه در شکر ** هست هر جان را یکی قوتی دگر
- But if that food is accidental to it (and not according to its real nature), then admonition is the (proper) correction for it.
- لیک گر آن قوت بر وی عارضی است ** پس نصیحت کردن او را رایضی است
- As (in the case of) one who from disease has become fond of (eating) clay— though he may suppose that that (clay) is indeed his (natural) food, 1080
- چون کسی کاو از مرض گل داشت دوست ** گر چه پندارد که آن خود قوت اوست
- He has (in reality) forgotten his original food and has betaken himself to the food of disease.
- قوت اصلی را فرامش کرده است ** روی در قوت مرض آورده است
- Having given up honey, he has eaten poison; he has made the food of disease (to be his nourishment) as (though it were) fat.
- نوش را بگذاشته سم خورده است ** قوت علت همچو چوبش کرده است
- Man's original food is the Light of God: animal food is improper for him;
- قوت اصلی بشر نور خداست ** قوت حیوانی مر او را ناسزاست
- But, in consequence of disease, his mind has fallen into this (delusion), that day and night he should eat of this water and clay.
- لیک از علت در این افتاد دل ** که خورد او روز و شب زین آب و گل
- (He is) pale-faced, weak-footed, faint-hearted—where is the food of by Heaven which hath (starry) tracks? 1085
- روی زرد و پای سست و دل سبک ** کو غذای و السما ذات الحبک
- That is the food of the chosen ones of the (Divine) sovereignty; the eating thereof is (done) without throat or instrument.
- آن غذای خاصگان دولت است ** خوردن آن بیگلو و آلت است