Gazing exspectantly, your eye fixed upon the air, estranged from the earth and enamoured of heaven.
منتظر بنهاده دیده در هوا ** از زمین بیگانه عاشق بر سما
When He implants in you the asinine qualities, (even) if you have a hundred wings (expedients) you will fly to the stable.
چون نهد در تو صفت‌های خری ** صد پرت گر هست بر آخر پری
The mouse is not despised for its (outward) form: it becomes a helpless victim of the kite because of its villainous character.3000
از پی صورت نیامد موش خوار ** از خبیثی شد زبون موش‌خوار
It is a (greedy) food-seeker and a traitor and a lover of darkness, besotted with cheese and pistachio nuts and syrup.
طعمه‌جوی و خاین و ظلمت‌پرست ** از پنیر و فستق و دوشاب مست
When the white falcon has the nature of a mouse, it is an object of contempt to the mice and a disgrace to the wild animals.
باز اشهب را چو باشد خوی موش ** ننگ موشان باشد و عار وحوش
O son, when the nature of Hárút and Márút was changed and He (God) bestowed on them the nature of man,
خوی آن هاروت و ماروت ای پسر ** چون بگشت و دادشان خوی بشر
They fell from (the eminence of) verily, we are they that stand in rowsinto the pit at Babylon (where they remain) shackled head-foremost.
در فتادند از لنحن الصافون ** در چه بابل ببسته سرنگون
The Guarded Tablet was removed from their sight: sorcerer and ensorcelled became their tablet.3005
لوح محفوظ از نظرشان دور شد ** لوح ایشان ساحر و مسحور شد
The same arms, the same head, the same figure—(yet) a Moses is celestial (in his nature), while a Pharaoh is contemptible.
پر همان و سر همان هیکل همان ** موسیی بر عرش و فرعونی مهان
Be always in quest of the (inward) nature and consort with him whose nature is good: observe how rose-oil (otto) has received (imbibed) the nature (of the rose).
در پی خو باش و با خوش‌خو نشین ** خوپذیری روغن گل را ببین