- 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
- Patience is sweetened by fair fancy, since (in that case) the fancies of relief (from pain) have come before (the mind).
- صبر شیرین از خیال خوش شده ست ** کان خیالات فرج پیش آمده ست
- That relief comes into the heart from faith: weakness of faith is despair and torment.
- آن فرج آید ز ایمان در ضمیر ** ضعف ایمان ناامیدی و زحیر
- Patience gains a crown from faith: where one hath no patience, he hath no faith. 600
- صبر از ایمان بیابد سر کله ** حیث لا صبر فلا إیمان له
- The Prophet said, “God has not given faith to any one in whose nature there is no patience.”
- گفت پیغمبر خداش ایمان نداد ** هر که را صبری نباشد در نهاد
- That same one (who) in your eyes is like a snake is a picture (of beauty) in the eyes of another,
- آن یکی در چشم تو باشد چو مار ** هم وی اندر چشم آن دیگر نگار
- Because in your eyes is the fancy of his being an infidel, while in the eyes of his friend is the fancy of his being a (true) believer;
- ز انکه در چشمت خیال کفر اوست ** و آن خیال مومنی در چشم دوست
- For both the effects (belief and unbelief) exist in this one person: now he is a fish and now a hook.
- کاندر این یک شخص هر دو فعل هست ** گاه ماهی باشد او و گاه شست
- Half of him is believer, half of him infidel; half of him cupidity, half of him patience (and abstinence). 605
- نیم او مومن بود نیمیش گبر ** نیم او حرص آوری نیمیش صبر
- Your God has said, “(Some) of you (are) believing”; (and) again, “(Some) of you (are) unbelieving” (as) an old fire-worshipper.
- گفت یزدانت فمنکم مومن ** باز منکم کافر گبر کهن