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
(But) a King (so) exceedingly grand and illimitable—how should He be contained in a beer jug, O asses?
پادشاهی بس عظیمی بیکران ** در فقاعی کی بگنجد ای خران
They knitted a net for the King; (yet) after all, they (had) learnt this contrivance from Him.
از برای شاه دامی دوختند ** آخر این تدبیر از او آموختند
Ill-starred is the pupil that begins rivalry with his master and comes forward (to contend with him).
نحس شاگردی که با استاد خویش ** همسری آغازد و آید به پیش
With what master? The master of the world, to whom the manifest and the occult are alike;
با کدام استاد استاد جهان ** پیش او یکسان و هویدا و نهان
Whose eyes have become seeing by the light of God and have rent the veils of ignorance.1580
چشم او ینظر بنور الله شده ** پردههای جهل را خارق بده
(Making) a veil of (his) heart, (which is as) full of holes as an old blanket, he (the disciple) puts it on in the presence of that Sage.
از دل سوراخ چون کهنه گلیم ** پردهای بندد به پیش آن حکیم
The veil laughs at him with a hundred mouths, every mouth having become a slit (open) to that (master). [The veil laughs at him with a hundred mouths, every mouth having become (like) a slit (vulva) in the thighs (of a woman).]
پرده میخندد بر او با صد دهان ** هر دهانی گشته اشکافی بر آن
The master says to the disciple, "O you who are less than a dog, have you no faithfulness to me?
گوید آن استاد مر شاگرد را ** ای کم از سگ نیستت با من وفا