- (And knows) what (different) fruit those trees will ultimately bear, though at this moment they are alike in appearance'?
- کان درختان را نهایت چیست بر ** گر چه یکسانند این دم در نظر
- The Shaykh who has become seeing by the light of God has become acquainted with the end and the beginning.
- شیخ کاو ینظر بنور الله شد ** از نهایت وز نخست آگاه شد
- He has shut for God's sake the eye that sees the stable the world); he has opened, in priority, the eye that sees the en .
- چشم آخر بین ببست از بهر حق ** چشم آخر بین گشاد اندر سبق
- Those envious ones were bad trees; they were ill-fortuned ones of bitter stock.
- آن حسودان بد درختان بودهاند ** تلخ گوهر شور بختان بودهاند
- They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret, 1570
- از حسد جوشان و کف میریختند ** در نهانی مکر میانگیختند
- That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;
- تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند
- (But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?
- چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود
- The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.
- شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده
- In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).
- در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** میزدی خنبک بر آن کوزهگران
- Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug; 1575
- مکر میسازند قومی حیلهمند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند