You were fighting like twenty men (to prevail) in the matter concerning which those others were giving you good advice.
بیست مرده جنگ می‌کردی در آن ** کت همی‌دادند پند آن دیگران
You said, “This is right and this is the only (approved) way: how should any one but a nobody (worthless person) rail at me?”
که صواب اینست و راه اینست و بس ** کی زند طعنه مرا جز هیچ‌کس
How should one who is compelled speak thus? How should one who has lost his way wrangle like this?1400
کی چنین گوید کسی کو مکر هست ** چون چنین جنگد کسی کو بی‌رهست
Whatever your fleshly soul desires, you have free-will (in regard to that); whatever your reason desires, you plead necessity (as an excuse for rejecting it).
هر چه نفست خواست داری اختیار ** هر چه عقلت خواست آری اضطرار
He that is blessed and familiar (with spiritual mysteries) knows that intelligence is of Iblís, while love is of Adam.
داند او کو نیک‌بخت و محرمست ** زیرکی ز ابلیس و عشق از آدمست
Intelligence is (like) swimming in the seas: he (the swimmer) is not saved: he is drowned at the end of the business.
زیرکی سباحی آمد در بحار ** کم رهد غرقست او پایان کار
Leave off swimming, let pride and enmity go: this is not a Jayhun (Oxus) or a (lesser) river, it is an ocean;
هل سباحت را رها کن کبر و کین ** نیست جیحون نیست جو دریاست این
And, moreover, (it is) the deep Ocean without refuge: it sweeps away the seven seas like straw.1405
وانگهان دریای ژرف بی‌پناه ** در رباید هفت دریا را چو کاه
Love is as a ship for the elect: seldom is calamity (the result); for the most part it is deliverance.
عشق چون کشتی بود بهر خواص ** کم بود آفت بود اغلب خلاص
Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.
زیرکی بفروش و حیرانی بخر ** زیرکی ظنست و حیرانی نظر