Behold those who have fallen headlong from this minaret, hundreds of thousands on thousands!
سرنگون افتادگان را زین منار ** می‌نگر تو صد هزار اندر هزار
(If) you have no sure skill in rope-dancing, give thanks for your feet and walk on the ground.
تو رسن‌بازی نمیدانی یقین ** شکر پاها گوی و می‌رو بر زمین
Don't make wings of paper and fly from the (top of a) mountain, for many a head has gone (to destruction) in this craze.
پر مساز از کاغذ و از که مپر ** که در آن سودا بسی رفتست سر
Although the Súfí was afire with anger, yet he cast his eye on the consequence.1355
گرچه آن صوفی پر آتش شد ز خشم ** لیک او بر عاقبت انداخت چشم
The highest success belongs permanently to him who does not take the bait and sees (the danger of) imprisonment in the trap.
اول صف بر کسی ماندم به کام ** کو نگیرد دانه بیند بند دام
How excellent are two noble end-discerning eyes that preserve the body from corruption!
حبذا دو چشم پایان بین راد ** که نگه دارند تن را از فساد
That (foresight) was (derived) from the vision of the end that was seen by Ahmad (Mohammed), who even here (in the present life) saw Hell, hair by hair,
آن ز پایان‌دید احمد بود کو ** دید دوزخ را همین‌جا مو به مو
And saw the Throne (of God) and the Footstool and the Gardens (of Paradise), so that he rent the veil of (our) forgetfulnesses.
دید عرش و کرسی و جنات را ** تا درید او پرده‌ی غفلات را
If you desire to be safe from harm, close your eye to the beginning and contemplate the end,1360
گر همی‌خواهی سلامت از ضرر ** چشم ز اول بند و پایان را نگر
That you may regard all (apparent) nonentities as (really) existent and look upon (all) entities, (so far as they are) perceived by the senses, as of low degree.
تا عدمها ار ببینی جمله هست ** هستها را بنگری محسوس پست