- Wherever you see the grain, beware, lest the trap confine your wings and pinions,
- هر کجا دانه بدیدی الحذر ** تا نبندد دام بر تو بال و پر
- Because the bird that takes leave of (relinquishes) the grain (bait), eats grain from the spacious field (of Reality) that is without imposture. 2860
- زانک مرغی کو بترک دانه کرد ** دانه از صحرای بی تزویر خورد
- With that (grain) it is contented, and escapes the trap: no trap confines its wings and pinions.
- هم بدان قانع شد و از دام جست ** هیچ دامی پر و بالش را نبست
- The banefulness of the action of the bird that abandons prudence from (motives of) greed and vain desire.
- وخامت کار آن مرغ کی ترک حزم کرد از حرص و هوا
- Again, a bird settles on a wall and fastens its eyes upon the grain in a trap.
- باز مرغی فوق دیواری نشست ** دیده سوی دانه دامی ببست
- Now it looks towards the open country, (while) now its greed leads it to look at the grain.
- یک نظر او سوی صحرا می‌کند ** یک نظر حرصش به دانه می‌کشد
- This look struggles with that look and suddenly makes it (the bird) empty of wisdom.
- این نظر با آن نظر چالیش کرد ** ناگهانی از خرد خالیش کرد
- Again, a bird that has abandoned that vacillation turns its gaze away from that (grain) and fixes it upon the open fields. 2865
- باز مرغی کان تردد را گذاشت ** زان نظر بر کند و بر صحرا گماشت
- Glad (glistening) are its wings and pinions: how goodly it is, since it has become the leader of all the free.
- شاد پر و بال او بخا له ** تا امام جمله آزادان شد او
- Every one who makes it his model is saved and sits in the abode of security and freedom,
- هر که او را مقتدا سازد برست ** در مقام امن و آزادی نشست
- Because his heart has become the king of the prudent, so that the rosery and garden (of Paradise) has become his dwelling-place.
- زانک شاه حازمان آمد دلش ** تا گلستان و چمن شد منزلش