- Thy intelligence is distributed over a hundred important affairs, over thousands of desires and great matters and small.
- عقل تو قسمت شده بر صد مهم ** بر هزاران آرزو و طم و رم
- Thou must unite the (scattered) parts by means of love, to the end that thou mayst become sweet as Samarcand and Damascus.
- جمع باید کرد اجزا را به عشق ** تا شوی خوش چون سمرقند و دمشق
- When thou becomest united, grain by grain, from (after thy dispersion in) perplexity, then it is possible to stamp upon thee the King's die; 3290
- جو جوی چون جمع گردی ز اشتباه ** پس توان زد بر تو سکهی پادشاه
- And if thou, foolish man, become greater than a mithqál (dinar), the King will make of thee a cup of gold.
- ور ز مثقالی شوی افزون تو خام ** از تو سازد شه یکی زرینه جام
- Then thereon will be both the name and the titles of the King and also his effigy, O thou that cravest to attain,
- پس برو هم نام و هم القاب شاه ** باشد و هم صورتش ای وصل خواه
- So that the Beloved will be to thee both bread and water and lamp and minion and dessert and wine.
- تا که معشوقت بود هم نان هم آب ** هم چراغ و شاهد و نقل شراب
- Unite thyself—union is (a Divine) mercy—that I may be able to speak unto thee that which is;
- جمع کن خود را جماعت رحمتست ** تا توانم با تو گفتن آنچ هست
- For speaking is for the purpose of (producing) belief: the spirit of polytheism is quit (devoid) of belief in God. 3295
- زانک گفتن از برای باوریست ** جان شرک از باوری حق بریست
- The spirit that has been distributed over the contents of the (mundane) sphere is shared amongst sixty passions;
- جان قسمت گشته بر حشو فلک ** در میان شصت سودا مشترک
- Therefore silence is best: it gives peace to it ( to that spirit); therefore ( I ought to follow the adage) “Silence is the answer to fools.”
- پس خموشی به دهد او را ثبوت ** پس جواب احمقان آمد سکوت