- Is there a man in existence?” “This bazaar,” said the other, “is full: surely they are men, O noble sage.”
- هست مردی گفت این بازار پر ** مردمانند آخر ای دانای حر
- He answered, “I want (one who is) a man on the two-wayed road—in the way of anger and at the time of desire.
- گفت خواهم مرد بر جادهی دو ره ** در ره خشم و به هنگام شره
- Where is (one who is) a man at the moment of anger and at the moment of appetite? In search of (such) a man I am running from street to street.
- وقت خشم و وقت شهوت مرد کو ** طالب مردی دوانم کو به کو
- Where in the world is (one who is) a man on these two occasions, that I may devote my life to him to-day?”
- کو درین دو حال مردی در جهان ** تا فدای او کنم امروز جان
- “You are seeking a rare thing,” said he; “but you take no heed of the (Divine) ordinance and destiny. Consider well! 2895
- گفت نادر چیز میجویی ولیک ** غافل از حکم و قضایی بین تو نیک
- You regard (only) the branch, you are unaware of the root: we are the branch, the ordinances of the (Divine) decree are the root.”
- ناظر فرعی ز اصلی بیخبر ** فرع ماییم اصل احکام قدر
- The (Divine) destiny causes the rolling sphere (of heaven) to lose its way; the (Divine) destiny makes a hundred Mercuries to be ignorant;
- چرخ گردان را قضا گمره کند ** صدعطارد را قضا ابله کند
- It makes the world of (our) contrivance to be straitened; it makes iron and hard rock to be (unresisting as) water.
- تنگ گرداند جهان چاره را ** آب گرداند حدید و خاره را
- O thou who hast resolved upon the way (thou wilt go), step by step, thou art the rawest of the raw, the rawest of the raw, the rawest of the raw.
- ای قراری داده ره را گام گام ** خام خامی خام خامی خام خام
- Since thou hast seen the revolution of the millstone, come now, see also the water of the river. 2900
- چون بدیدی گردش سنگ آسیا ** آب جو را هم ببین آخر بیا