Put aside the story of the people of Saba: tell how the Khwaja came to the village.
قصه‌ی اهل سبا یک گوشه نه ** آن بگو کان خواجه چون آمد به ده
The countryman used blandishments in ingratiating himself, until he made the Khwaja’s prudence crazy.
روستایی در تملق شیوه کرد ** تا که حزم خواجه را کالیوه کرد
He ( the Khwaja) was distracted by message upon message, till the clear water of his prudence became turbid.415
از پیام اندر پیام او خیره شد ** تا زلال حزم خواجه تیره شد
On the same side his children in approval (of the country-man’s invitation) were joyously striking up “Let us frolic and play,”
هم ازینجا کودکانش در پسند ** نرتع و نلعب بشادی می‌زدند
Like Joseph, whom by the wondrous (act of Divine) predestination (the words). “Let us frolic and play” carried off from his father’s shadow (protection).
همچو یوسف کش ز تقدیر عجب ** نرتع و نلعب ببرد از ظل آب
That is not (joyful) play; nay, ‘tis play with one’s life, ‘tis cunning and deceit and contrivance of fraud.
آن نه بازی بلک جانبازیست آن ** حیله و مکر و دغاسازیست آن
Whatsoever would fling you asunder from the Friend, do not listen to it, for it holds loss, loss.
هرچه از یارت جدا اندازد آن ** مشنو آن را کان زیان دارد زیان
(Even) if the gain be a hundred hundredfold, do not accept it: do not, for the sake of the gold, break with the dervish (who is) the treasurer (of the Divine bounty)!420
گر بود آن سود صد در صد مگیر ** بهر زر مگسل ز گنجور ای فقیر
Hear how many a rebuke, hot and cold (kindly and severe), God addressed to the Companions of the Prophet,
این شنو که چند یزدان زجر کرد ** گفت اصحاب نبی را گرم و سرد
Because, in a year of distress (famine), at the sound of the drum they (quitted) without tarrying (and) made void the Friday congregation,
زانک بر بانگ دهل در سال تنگ ** جمعه را کردند باطل بی درنگ