- Without making trial, know this of the King's (God's) knowledge: when you are a (spiritual) chief, He will not send you (down) to the vestibule.
- این بدان بی‌امتحان از علم شاه ** چون سری نفرستدت در پایگاه
- Does any intelligent man let a precious pearl fall into the midst of a privy full of ordure?
- هیچ عاقل افکند در ثمین ** در میان مستراحی پر چمین
- Inasmuch as a sagacious and attentive man will nowise send wheat to a straw-barn,
- زانک گندم را حکیم آگهی ** هیچ نفرستد به انبار کهی
- If a novice has made trial of the Shaykh who is the (spiritual) leader and guide, he is an ass.
- شیخ را که پیشوا و رهبرست ** گر مریدی امتحان کرد او خرست
- If you make trial of him in the way of religion, you will be tried (by tribulation), O man without faith. 375
- امتحانش گر کنی در راه دین ** هم تو گردی ممتحن ای بی‌یقین
- Your audacity and ignorance will become naked and exposed to view: how should he be made naked by that scrutiny?
- جرات و جهلت شود عریان و فاش ** او برهنه کی شود زان افتتاش
- If the mote come and weigh the mountain, its scales will be shattered by the mountain, O youth;
- گر بیاید ذره سنجد کوه را ** بر درد زان که ترازوش ای فتی
- For he (the novice) applies the scales of his own judgement and puts the man of God in the scales;
- کز قیاس خود ترازو می‌تند ** مرد حق را در ترازو می‌کند
- (But) since he (the Shaykh) is not contained by the scales of intellect, consequently he shatters the scales of intellect.
- چون نگنجد او به میزان خرد ** پس ترازوی خرد را بر درد
- Know that to make trial (of him) is like exercising authority over him: do not seek to exercise authority over such a (spiritual) king. 380
- امتحان هم‌چون تصرف دان درو ** تو تصرف بر چنان شاهی مجو