My readiness is like guile and ambush: behold the image of the end in the mirror of the beginning.”
حاضری‌ام هست چون مکر و کمین ** نقش آخر ز آینه‌ی اول ببین
When thou hast gone into one of these two sacks, thou hast become contrary and unsuitable to the other.
چون یکی زین دو جوال اندر شدی ** آن دگر را ضد و نا درخور شدی
Oh, happy is he who, from the first, heard that which the intelligences and the (spiritual) ears of (holy) men have heard.1630
ای خنک آنکو ز اول آن شنید ** کش عقول و مسمع مردان شنید
(If) it (the World) has found the house (the heart) empty and taken abode (there), all else appears to him (the owner of the house) perverted or wonderful (extraordinary).
خانه خالی یافت و جا را او گرفت ** غیر آنش کژ نماید یا شگفت
(So with) the new pot that has drawn to itself some urine: water cannot detach that filth (from it).
کوزه‌ی نو کو به خود بولی کشید ** آن خبث را آب نتواند برید
Everything in the world draws something (to itself): infidelity (draws) the infidel and righteousness him who is guided aright.
در جهان هر چیز چیزی می‌کشد ** کفر کافر را و مرشد را رشد
There is both the amber and the magnet (lodestone): whether thou art iron or straw thou wilt come to the hook (thou wilt be attracted).
کهربا هم هست و مقناطیس هست ** تا تو آهن یا کهی آیی بشست
The magnet carries thee off if thou art iron; and if thou art straw, thou wilt be in contact with the amber.1635
برد مقناطیست ار تو آهنی ** ور کهی بر کهربا بر می‌تنی
When any one is not associated with the good, he inevitably becomes a neighbour to the wicked.
آن یکی چون نیست با اخیار یار ** لاجرم شد پهلوی فجار جار
Moses is very despicable in the eyes of the Egyptian; Hámán is exceedingly accursed in the eyes of the Israelite.
هست موسی پیش قبطی بس ذمیم ** هست هامان پیش سبطی بس رجیم