- A poor wretch amidst the throng received ten blows with the stick without (having committed) any offence. “Begone,” they cried, “get out of the way!”
- در میانه بی‌دلی ده چوب خورد ** بی‌گناهی که برو از راه برد
- Dripping blood, he turned his face to the king and said, “Behold the manifest iniquity: why ask of that which is hidden?
- خون چکان رو کرد با شاه و بگفت ** ظلم ظاهر بین چه پرسی از نهفت
- This is thy good: (thou doest this whilst) thou art going to the mosque; what must thy evil and burden (of sin) be, O misguided one?”
- خیر تو این است جامع می‌روی ** تا چه باشد شر و وزرت ای غوی
- The Pír (Elder) never hears a salaam from a base fellow without being exceedingly tormented by him in the end. 2470
- یک سلامی نشنود پیر از خسی ** تا نپیچد عاقبت از وی بسی
- (If) a wolf catch a saint, it is better than that the saint should be caught by the wicked carnal soul,
- گرگ دریابد ولی را به بود ** زانک دریابد ولی را نفس بد
- Because, though the wolf does great violence, yet it has not the same knowledge and craft and cunning;
- زانک گرگ ارچه که بس استمگریست ** لیکش آن فرهنگ و کید و مکر نیست
- Else how should it fall into the trap? Cunning is complete (attains to perfection) in man.
- ورنه کی اندر فتادی او به دام ** مکر اندر آدمی باشد تمام
- The ram said to the ox and the camel, “O comrades, since such a (lucky) chance has come to us,
- گفت قج با گاو و اشتر ای رفاق ** چون چنین افتاد ما را اتفاق
- Let each (of us) declare the date (antiquity) of his life: the oldest has the best right, let the others suffer (disappointment) in silence. 2475
- هر یکی تاریخ عمر ابدا کنید ** پیرتر اولیست باقی تن زنید
- In those times,” said the ram, “my pasturage was (shared) with the ram that was sacrificed for Ismá‘íl (Ishmael).”
- گفت قج مرج من اندر آن عهود ** با قج قربان اسمعیل بود