- A trader is faring over sea and land: he runs (makes those swift journeys) for live of one who sits at home.
- تاجری دریا و خشکی می‌رود ** آن بمهر خانه‌شینی می‌دود
- Whoever has a passion for that which is dead, ‘tis in hope of (gaining) one who has the features of the living. 545
- هر که را با مرده سودایی بود ** بر امید زنده‌سیمایی بود
- The carpenter turns his face (attention) to wood, in the hope of rendering service to a fair one whose face is like the moon.
- آن دروگر روی آورده به چوب ** بر امید خدمت مه‌روی خوب
- Do thou exert thyself in hope of the Living One who does not become lifeless after a day or two!
- بر امید زنده‌ای کن اجتهاد ** کو نگردد بعد روزی دو جماد
- Do not from meanness choose a mean person as thy friend: that friendship in him is borrowed (unessential).
- مونسی مگزین خسی را از خسی ** عاریت باشد درو آن مونسی
- If thy friends other than God possess constancy (permanence), where is thy friendship with the mother and father?
- انس تو با مادر و بابا کجاست ** گر بجز حق مونسانت را وفاست
- If any one but God is worthy to be relied upon, what has become of thy friendship with thy nurse and tutor? 550
- انس تو با دایه و لالا چه شد ** گر کسی شاید بغیر حق عضد
- Thy friendship with the milk and the teat did not endure, thy shyness of (going to) school did not endure.
- انس تو با شیر و با پستان نماند ** نفرت تو از دبیرستان نماند
- That (friendship) was a radiance (cast) upon their wall: that sign (of the Sun) went back towards the Sun.
- آن شعاعی بود بر دیوارشان ** جانب خورشید وا رفت آن نشان
- On whatsoever thing that radiance may fall, thou becomest in love with that (thing), O brave man.
- بر هر آن چیزی که افتد آن شعاع ** تو بر آن هم عاشق آیی ای شجاع