Saying, ‘Go, buy some of the fat of this camel’: he (the slave) sees the camel fallen dead on the road.
که برو از پیه این اشتر بخر ** بیند اشتر را سقط او راه بر
(He sees) mortally stricken by disease the camel that used to vie with a horse in speed;510
سر بریده از مرض آن اشتری ** کو بتگ با اسب می‌کردی مری
For, without any doubt, from envy and (the effect of) the evil eye the celestial sphere would alter its course and revolution.”
کز حسد وز چشم بد بی‌هیچ شک ** سیر و گردش را بگرداند فلک
The water is hidden and the water-wheel is visible, yet as regards (the wheel's) revolution the water is the source of action.
آب پنهانست و دولاب آشکار ** لیک در گردش بود آب اصل کار
The remedy of the evil eye is the good eye: it makes the evil eye naught beneath its kick.
چشم نیکو شد دوای چشم بد ** چشم بد را لا کند زیر لگد
(Divine) mercy has the precedence (over Divine wrath): it (the good eye) is (derived) from (Divine) mercy, (while) the evil eye is the product of (Divine) wrath and execration.
سبق رحمت‌راست و او از رحمتست ** چشم بد محصول قهر و لعنتست
His (God's) mercy overcomes His vengeance: hence every prophet prevailed over his adversary;515
رحمتش بر نقمتش غالب شود ** چیره زین شد هر نبی بر ضد خود
For he (the prophet) is the result of (Divine) mercy and is the opposite of him (the adversary): that ill-favoured one was the result of (Divine) wrath.
کو نتیجه‌ی رحمتست و ضد او ** از نتیجه‌ی قهر بود آن زشت‌رو
The greed of the duck is single, (but) this (greed of the peacock) is fiftyfold: the greed of lust is (only) a snake, while this (greed for) eminence is a dragon.
حرص بط یکتاست این پنجاه تاست ** حرص شهوت مار و منصب اژدهاست
The duck's greed arises from the appetite of the gullet and pudendum, (but) twenty times as much (greed) is included in (the ambition to) rule.
حرص بط از شهوت حلقست و فرج ** در ریاست بیست چندانست درج