How long have you been uttering poetry and prose and (proclaiming) mysteries! O master, try the experiment and, for one day, be dumb!
چند گفتی نظم و نثر و راز فاش ** خواجه یک روز امتحان کن گنگ باش
Story in confirmation of the saying, “We have tried speech and talk all this time: (now) for a while let us. try self-restraint and silence.”
حکایت در تقریر این سخن کی چندین گاه گفت ذکر را آزمودیم مدتی صبر و خاموشی را بیازماییم
How long have you been cooking (things) sour and acid and (like the fruit of) the white tamarisk? For this one time make an experiment and cook sweets.2150
چند پختی تلخ و تیز و شورگز ** این یکی بار امتحان شیرین بپز
On waking at the Resurrection, there is put into the hands of a (wicked) man the scroll of his sins: (it will be) black,
آن یکی را در قیامت ز انتباه ** در کف آید نامه‌ی عصیان سیاه
Headed with black, as letters of mourning; the body and margin of the scroll completely filled with (his) sins—
سرسیه چون نامه‌های تعزیه ** پر معاصی متن نامه و حاشیه
The whole (of it) wickedness and sin from end to end, full of infidelity, like the land of war.
جمله فسق و معصیت بد یک سری ** هم‌چو دارالحرب پر از کافری
Such a foul and noxious scroll does not come into the right hand; it comes into the left hand.
آنچنان نامه‌ی پلید پر وبال ** در یمین ناید درآید در شمال
Here also (in this world) regard your scroll (the record of your actions), (and consider) whether it fits the left hand or the right.2155
خود همین‌جا نامه‌ی خود را ببین ** دست چپ را شاید آن یا در یمین
In the (bootmaker's) shop, can you know before trying (them) on that the left boot or shoe belongs to the left (foot)?
موزه‌ی چپ کفش چپ هم در دکان ** آن چپ دانیش پیش از امتحان
When you are not “right,” know that you are “left”; the cries of a lion and an ape are distinct (from one another).
چون نباشی راست می‌دان که چپی ** هست پیدا نعره‌ی شیر و کپی
He (God) who makes the rose lovely and sweet-scented—His bounty makes every “left” to be “right.”
آنک گل را شاهد و خوش‌بو کند ** هر چپی را راست فضل او کند