Straighten your members by (the help of) the straight (the righteous). O you who (would) go straight, turn not your head aside from that threshold (where the righteous dwell).
راست کن اجزات را از راستان ** سر مکش ای راست رو ز آن آستان
Balance makes balance correct; balance also makes balance defective.
هم ترازو را ترازو راست کرد ** هم ترازو را ترازو کاست کرد
Whoever weighs the same (adopts the same standard) as the unrighteous falls into deficiency, and his understanding becomes dazed.
هر که با ناراستان هم سنگ شد ** در کمی افتاد و عقلش دنگ شد
Go, be hard on the infidels, sprinkle dust on (renounce) fondness for the strangers.
رو أشداء علی الکفار باش ** خاک بر دل داری اغیار پاش
Be as a sword upon the heads of the strangers: come, do not play foxy tricks, be a lion,125
بر سر اغیار چون شمشیر باش ** هین مکن روباه بازی شیر باش
In order that the friends (of God), moved by (righteous) jealousy, may not break with you, because those thorns (the wicked) are the enemies of this rose (the friend of God).
تا ز غیرت از تو یاران نگسلند ** ز آنکه آن خاران عدوی این گلند
Set fire to the wolves as (to) rue-seed, because those wolves are the enemies of Joseph.
آتش اندر زن به گرگان چون سپند ** ز آن که آن گرگان عدوی یوسفند
Iblís calls you “father's soul” (darling son)—beware (of him)! The accursed Devil (does that) in order that he may beguile you with (vain) words.
جان بابا گویدت ابلیس هین ** تا به دم بفریبدت دیو لعین
He practised the like imposture on your father: this black-faced one checkmated an Adam.
این چنین تلبیس با بابات کرد ** آدمی را این سیه رخ مات کرد
This crow is busy on the chessboard; look not you upon his game with an eye that is half-asleep,130
بر سر شطرنج چست است این غراب ** تو مبین بازی به چشم نیم خواب