- Do not seek fame till you are secure: wash your face of fear, then show your face.
- تا نه ای ایمن تو معروفی مجو ** رو بشو از خوف پس بنمای رو
- Until your (own) beard grows, my good man, do not jeer at another whose chin is smooth.
- تا نروید ریش تو ای خوب من ** بر دگر ساده ز نخ طعنه مزن
- Consider this, that his (Satan's) soul was tried (by the wrath of God), he fell into a pit (of perdition) so that he became a warning to you.
- این نگر که مبتلا شد جان او ** در چهی افتاد تا شد پند تو
- You did not fall, so that you should be a warning to him. He drank the poison: eat you his sugar! 3045
- تو نیفتادی که باشی پند او ** زهر او نوشید تو خور قند او
- How the Ghuzz set about killing one man in order that another might be terrorised.
- قصد کردن غزان به کشتن یک مردی تا آن دگر بترسد
- Those blood-shedding (murderous) Ghuzz Turcomans came, and suddenly fell upon a village (on a raid) for plunder.
- آن غزان ترک خونریز آمدند ** بهر یغما بر دهی ناگه زدند
- They found two of the notables of that village, and made (ready in) haste to put one (of the two) to death.
- دو کس از اعیان آن ده یافتند ** در هلاک آن یکی بشتافتند
- They tied his hands in order to sacrifice (kill) him. He said, “O princes and high pillars (of the empire),
- دست بستندش که قربانش کنند ** گفت ای شاهان و ارکان بلند
- Why are ye casting me into the pit of death? Wherefore, pray, are ye thirsting after my blood?
- در چه مرگم چرا میافگنید ** از چه آخر تشنهی خون منید
- What is the wisdom, what is the object, in killing me, when I am so poor and bare-bodied?” 3050
- چیست حکمت چه غرض در کشتنم ** چون چنین درویشم و عریان تنم
- He (one of the Ghuzz) replied, “To strike awe into this friend of yours, so that he may be afraid and produce (his) gold.”
- گفت تا هیبت بر این یارت زند ** تا بترسد او و زر پیدا کند