If you are wounded by a thorn, you yourself have sown; and if you are (clad) in satin and silk, you yourself have spun.
گر بخاری خسته‌ای خود کشته‌ای ** ور حریر و قزدری خود رشته‌ای
Know that the act is not of the same complexion as the requital: the service is nowise of the same complexion as the payment given (in return for it).3445
دانک نبود فعل همرنگ جزا ** هیچ خدمت نیست همرنگ عطا
The labourers' wage does not resemble the work, inasmuch as the latter is the accident, while the former is the substance and permanent.
مزد مزدوران نمی‌ماند بکار ** کان عرض وین جوهرست و پایدار
The former is wholly hardship and effort and sweat, while the latter is wholly silver and gold and trays (of food).
آن همه سختی و زورست و عرق ** وین همه سیمست و زرست و طبق
If suspicion fall upon you from some quarter, (the reason is that) the person whom you wronged has invoked (God) against you in an affliction (which you have brought upon him).
گر ترا آید ز جایی تهمتی ** کرد مظلومت دعا در محنتی
You say, “I am free (from guilt): I have not laid suspicion on any one.”
تو همی‌گویی که من آزاده‌ام ** بر کسی من تهمتی ننهاده‌ام
(No; but) you have committed another form of sin; you sowed the seed: how should the seed resemble the fruit?3450
تو گناهی کرده‌ای شکل دگر ** دانه کشتی دانه کی ماند به بر
He (the celibate) committed adultery, and the penalty was a hundred blows with the stick. “When,” says he, “did I strike any one with wood?”
او زنا کرد و جزا صد چوب بود ** گوید او من کی زدم کس را بعود
Was not this infliction the penalty for that adultery? How should the stick resemble adultery (committed) in secret?
نه جزای آن زنا بود این بلا ** چوب کی ماند زنا را در خلا
How should the serpent resemble the rod, O Kalím (Moses)? How should the pain resemble the remedy, O doctor?
مار کی ماند عصا را ای کلیم ** درد کی ماند دوا را ای حکیم