- (For) he is seeking knowledge on account of the vulgar and the noble, not in order that he may win release from this world.
- طالب علم است بهر عام و خاص ** نی که تا یابد از این عالم خلاص
- Like a mouse, he has burrowed in every direction, since the light drove him (back) from the door (the entrance to the hole) and said, ‘Away!’
- همچو موشی هر طرف سوراخ کرد ** چون که نورش راند از در گشت سرد
- Inasmuch as he had no way (of getting out) to the open country and the light, he continued to make (such) an exertion even in that darkness.
- چون که سوی دشت و نورش ره نبود ** هم در آن ظلمات جهدی مینمود
- If God give him wings, the wings of Wisdom, he will escape from mousiness and will fly like the birds;
- گر خدایش پر دهد پر خرد ** برهد از موشی و چون مرغان پرد
- But if he seek not wings, he will remain underground with no hope of traversing the path to Simák. 2435
- ور نجوید پر بماند زیر خاک ** ناامید از رفتن راه سماک
- Dialectic knowledge, which is soulless, is in love with (eager for) the countenance of customers;
- علم گفتاری که آن بیجان بود ** عاشق روی خریداران بود
- (But) though it is robust at the time of disputation, it is dead and gone when it has no customer.
- گر چه باشد وقت بحث علم زفت ** چون خریدارش نباشد مرد و رفت
- My purchaser is God: He is drawing me aloft, for God hath purchased.
- مشتری من خدای است او مرا ** میکشد بالا که الله اشتری
- My bloodwit (the reward of my self-sacrifice) is the beauty of the Glorious One: I enjoy my bloodwit (as) lawful earnings.
- خونبهای من جمال ذو الجلال ** خونبهای خود خورم کسب حلال
- Abandon these insolvent customers: what purchase can be made by a handful of (worthless) clay? 2440
- این خریداران مفلس را بهل ** چه خریداری کند یک مشت گل