- Any one who is far from the feast of the Merciful (God) has the eye of a (low) beggar, though he be a sultan.
- هر که دور از دعوت رحمان بود ** او گدا چشم است اگر سلطان بود
- He (the insolvent) had trodden virtue underfoot; the prison had become a hell on account of that robber of bread.
- مر مروت را نهاده زیر پا ** گشته زندان دوزخی ز آن نان ربا
- If you flee in hope of some relief, on that side also a calamity comes to meet you. 590
- گر گریزی بر امید راحتی ** ز آن طرف هم پیشت آید آفتی
- No corner is without wild beasts; there is no rest but in the place where you are alone with God.
- هیچ کنجی بیدد و بیدام نیست ** جز به خلوتگاه حق آرام نیست
- The corner (narrow cell) of this world's inevitable prison is not exempt from the charges for visitors and (the cost of) housewarming.
- کنج زندان جهان ناگزیر ** نیست بیپا مزد و بیدق الحصیر
- By God, if you go into a mouse-hole, you will be afflicted by some one who has the claws of a cat.
- و الله ار سوراخ موشی در روی ** مبتلای گربه چنگالی شوی
- Man has fatness from (thrives on) fancy, if his fancies are beautiful;
- آدمی را فربهی هست از خیال ** گر خیالاتش بود صاحب جمال
- And if his fancies show anything unlovely he melts away as wax (is melted) by a fire. 595
- ور خیالاتش نماید ناخوشی ** میگدازد همچو موم از آتشی
- If amidst snakes and scorpions God keep you with the fancies of them that are (spiritually) fair,
- در میان مار و کژدم گر ترا ** با خیالات خوشان دارد خدا
- The snakes and scorpions will be friendly to you, because that fancy is the elixir which transmutes your copper (into gold).
- مار و کژدم مر ترا مونس بود ** کان خیالت کیمیای مس بود