- (When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.
- پوست افزون بود لاغر بود مغز ** پوست لاغر شد چو کامل گشت و نغز
- Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.
- بنگر این هر سه ز خامی رسته را ** جوز را و لوز را و پسته را
- Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous. 1180
- هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود
- When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.
- چونک در عهد خدا کردی وفا ** از کرم عهدت نگه دارد خدا
- You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.
- از وفای حق تو بسته دیده‌ای ** اذکروا اذکرکم نشنیده‌ای
- Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.
- گوش نه اوفوا به عهدی گوش‌دار ** تا که اوفی عهدکم آید ز یار
- What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.
- عهد و قرض ما چه باشد ای حزین ** هم‌چو دانه‌ی خشک کشتن در زمین
- From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth. 1185
- نه زمین را زان فروغ و لمتری ** نه خداوند زمین را توانگری
- (’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof Thou didst create from non-existence.
- جز اشارت که ازین می‌بایدم ** که تو دادی اصل این را از عدم
- I ate, and (now) I bring the seed as a token, begging Thee to send to us such bounty (as before).’
- خوردم و دانه بیاوردم نشان ** که ازین نعمت به سوی ما کشان