When a king listens to such a minister, he (the minister) disgraces the king and his kingdom unto everlasting.
بر چنین صاحب چو شه اصغا کند ** شاه و ملکش را ابد رسوا کند
The resemblance of the bad judgement of this base vizier in corrupting the king's generosity to (that of) the vizier of Pharaoh, namely, Hámán, in corrupting the readiness of Pharaoh to receive (the true Faith).
مانستن بدرایی این وزیر دون در افساد مروت شاه به وزیر فرعون یعنی هامان در افساد قابلیت فرعون
How many a time did Pharaoh soften and become submissive when he was hearing that Word from Moses!—1240
چند آن فرعون میشد نرم و رام ** چون شنیدی او ز موسی آن کلام
That Word (which was such) that from the sweetness of that incomparable Word the rock would have yielded milk.
آن کلامی که بدادی سنگ شیر ** از خوشی آن کلام بینظیر
Whenever he took counsel with Hámán, who was his vizier and whose nature it was to hate,
چون بهامان که وزیرش بود او ** مشورت کردی که کینش بود خو
Then he (Hámán) would say, “Until now thou hast been the Khedive: wilt thou become, through deception, the slave to a wearer of rags?”
پس بگفتی تا کنون بودی خدیو ** بنده گردی ژندهپوشی را بریو
Those words would come like a stone shot by a mangonel (ballista) and strike upon his glass house.
همچو سنگ منجنیقی آمدی ** آن سخن بر شیشه خانهی او زدی
All that the Kalím of sweet address built up in a hundred days he (Hámán) would destroy in one moment.1245
هر چه صد روز آن کلیم خوشخطاب ** ساختی در یکدم او کردی خراب
Thy intellect is the vizier and is overcome by sensuality: in (the realm of) thy being it is a brigand (that attacks thee) on the Way to God.
عقل تو دستور و مغلوب هواست ** در وجودت رهزن راه خداست
(If) a godly monitor give thee good advice, it will artfully put those words (of his) aside,
ناصحی ربانیی پندت دهد ** آن سخن را او به فن طرحی نهد
Saying, “These (words) are not well-founded: take heed, don't be carried away (by them); they are not (worth) so much: come to thyself (be sensible), don't be crazed.”
کین نه بر جایست هین از جا مشو ** نیست چندان با خود آ شیدا مشو