- The dragon has strength, (but) it has not cunning; again, there is a cunning above your cunning.
- اژدها را هست قوت حیله نیست ** نیز فوق حیلهی تو حیلهای است
- When you have regarded your own cunning, go back (and see) whence it came: go to the origin.
- حیلهی خود را چو دیدی باز رو ** کز کجا آمد سوی آغاز رو
- Whatever is below has come from above: come on, turn your eye towards the height.
- هر چه در پستی است آمد از علا ** چشم را سوی بلندی نه هلا
- Looking aloft gives light, though at first it produces dazzlement; yes, it does. 1975
- روشنی بخشد نظر اندر علی ** گر چه اول خیرگی آرد بلی
- Accustom your eye to the light; if you are not a bat, look in that direction.
- چشم را در روشنایی خوی کن ** گر نه خفاشی نظر آن سوی کن
- Vision of the end is the sign of your (having the) light; the lust of the moment is in truth your (dark) grave.
- عاقبت بینی نشان نور تست ** شهوت حالی حقیقت گور تست
- The man with vision of the end, who has seen a hundred artifices, is not like him that has (only) heard of one artifice,
- عاقبت بینی که صد بازی بدید ** مثل آن نبود که یک بازی شنید
- (And who) has been so befooled by that one artifice that in his pride he has become alienated from the masters.
- ز آن یکی بازی چنان مغرور شد ** کز تکبر ز اوستادان دور شد
- Like Sámirí, when he has seen in himself that (little) skill, through pride he has rebelled against (a) Moses. 1980
- سامریوار آن هنر در خود چو دید ** او ز موسی از تکبر سر کشید
- He has learned that skill from (a) Moses and (then) closed his eyes to his teacher.
- او ز موسی آن هنر آموخته ** وز معلم چشم را بر دوخته