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5
467-476

  • ’Tis a topsy-turvy game and a terrible quandary; do not try (to escape by) cunning: ’tis (all) a matter of (Divine) favour and fortune.
  • لعب معکوسست و فرزین‌بند سخت  ** حیله کم کن کار اقبالست و بخت 

  • Do not weave plots in vain imagination and cunning; for the Self-sufficient One does not give way to the contriver.
  • بر حیال و حیله کم تن تار را  ** که غنی ره کم دهد مکار را 

  • Contrive, in the way of (by following the guidance of) one who serves (God) well, that you may gain the position of a prophet in a religious community.
  • مکر کن در راه نیکو خدمتی  ** تا نبوت یابی اندر امتی 

  • Contrive that you may be delivered from your own contrivance; contrive that you may become detached from the body. 470
  • مکر کن تا وا رهی از مکر خود  ** مکر کن تا فرد گردی از جسد 

  • Contrive that you may become the meanest slave (of God): if you enter into (the state of) meanness (self-abasement), you will become lordly.
  • مکر کن تا کمترین بنده شوی  ** در کمی رفتی خداونده شوی 

  • Never, O old wolf, practise foxiness and perform service with the purpose of (gaining) lordship;
  • روبهی و خدمت ای گرگ کهن  ** هیچ بر قصد خداوندی مکن 

  • But rush into the fire like a moth: do not hoard up that (service), play for love!
  • لیک چون پروانه در آتش بتاز  ** کیسه‌ای زان بر مدوز و پاک باز 

  • Renounce power and adopt piteous supplication: (the Divine) mercy comes towards piteous supplication, O dervish.
  • زور را بگذار و زاری را بگیر  ** رحم سوی زاری آید ای فقیر 

  • The piteous supplication of one sorely distressed and athirst is real; the piteous (but) cold supplication of falsehood is proper to the miscreant. 475
  • زاری مضطر تشنه معنویست  ** زاری سرد دروغ آن غویست 

  • The weeping of Joseph's brethren is a trick, for their hearts are full of envy and infirmity.
  • گریه‌ی اخوان یوسف حیلتست  ** که درونشان پر ز رشک و علتست 

  • Story of the Arab of the desert whose dog was dying of hunger, while his wallet was full of bread; he was lamenting over the dog and reciting poetry and sobbing and beating his head and face; and yet he grudged the dog a morsel from his wallet.
  • حکایت آن اعرابی کی سگ او از گرسنگی می‌مرد و انبان او پر نان و بر سگ نوحه می‌کرد و شعر می‌گفت و می‌گریست و سر و رو می‌زد و دریغش می‌آمد لقمه‌ای از انبان به سگ دادن