- How should a friend turn aside from the pain inflicted by his friend? Pain is the kernel, and friendship is (only) as the husk to it.
- کی کران گیرد ز رنج دوست دوست ** رنج مغز و دوستی آن را چو پوست
- Has not joy in tribulation and calamity and suffering become the sign of (true) friendship? 1460
- نه نشان دوستی شد سر خوشی ** در بلا و آفت و محنت کشی
- A friend is like gold, tribulation is like the fire: the pure gold is glad in the heart of the fire.
- دوست همچون زر بلا چون آتش است ** زر خالص در دل آتش خوش است
- How Luqmán's master tested his sagacity.
- امتحان کردن خواجهی لقمان زیرکی لقمان را
- (Was it) not (the case) that (this happened) to Luqmán, who was a pure (unselfish) slave, and day and night was brisk in service?
- نه که لقمان را که بندهی پاک بود ** روز و شب در بندگی چالاک بود
- His master used to prefer him (to all others) in the work (of service) and deem him better than his own sons,
- خواجهاش میداشتی در کار پیش ** بهترش دیدی ز فرزندان خویش
- Because Luqmán, though he was slave-born, was the master (of himself) and was free from sensual desire.
- ز انکه لقمان گر چه بنده زاد بود ** خواجه بود و از هوا آزاد بود
- A certain king said to the Shaykh (spiritual Director) in conversation, “Ask me to bestow some bounty upon thee.” 1465
- گفت شاهی شیخ را اندر سخن ** چیزی از بخشش ز من درخواست کن
- He answered, “O King, are not you ashamed to say such a thing to me? Come higher!
- گفت ای شه شرم ناید مر ترا ** که چنین گویی مرا زین برتر آ
- I have two slaves, and they are vile, and those two are rulers and lords over you.”
- من دو بنده دارم و ایشان حقیر ** و آن دو بر تو حاکمانند و امیر
- Said the King, “What are those two? This is a mistake.” He replied, “The one is anger and the other is lust.”
- گفت شه آن دو چهاند این زلت است ** گفت آن یک خشم و دیگر شهوت است