The cause of (your) affliction is some evil deed: acknowledge that evil is done by you, not by Fate.
رنج را باشد سبب بد کردنی ** بد ز فعل خود شناس از بخت نی
To look at Fate (alone) makes the eye asquint: it makes the dog be attached to the kennel and lazy.
آن نظر در بخت چشم احوال کند ** کلب را کهدانی و کاهل کند
Suspect yourself, O youth; do not suspect the recompense of (Divine) justice.430
متهم کن نفس خود را ای فتی ** متهم کم کن جزای عدل را
Repent like a man, turn your head into the (right) Way, for whoso doeth a mote's weight (of good or evil) shall see it.
توبه کن مردانه سر آور به ره ** که فمن یعمل بمثقال یره
Do not be duped by the wiles of the carnal soul, for the Divine Sun will not conceal a single mote.
در فسون نفس کم شو غره‌ای ** که آفتاب حق نپوشد ذره‌ای
These material motes, O profitable man, are visible in the presence of this material sun.
هست این ذرات جسمی ای مفید ** پیش این خورشید جسمانی پدید
(So too) the motes consisting of ideas and thought are manifest in the presence of the Sun of Realities.
هست ذرات خواطر و افتکار ** پیش خورشید حقایق آشکار
Story of the fowler who had wrapped himself in grass and drawn over his head a handful of roses and red anemones, like a cap, in order that the birds might think he was grass. The clever bird had some little notion that he was (really) a man, and said (to itself), “I have never seen grass of this shape”; but it did not wholly apprehend (the truth) and was deceived by his guile, because at the first view it had no decisive argument, (whereas) on its second view of the trick it had a decisive argument, namely, cupidity and greed, (which are) especially (potent) at the time of excessive want and poverty. The Prophet—God bless and save him!—has said that poverty is almost infidelity.
حکایت آن صیادی کی خویشتن در گیاه پیچیده بود و دسته‌ی گل و لاله را کله‌وار به سر فرو کشیده تا مرغان او را گیاه پندارند و آن مرغ زیرک بوی برد اندکی کی این آدمیست کی برین شکل گیاه ندیدم اما هم تمام بوی نبرد به افسون او مغرور شد زیرا در ادراک اول قاطعی نداشت در ادراک مکر دوم قاطعی داشت و هو الحرص و الطمع لا سیما عند فرط الحاجة و الفقر قال النبی صلی الله علیه و سلم کاد الفقر ان یکون کفرا
A bird went into a meadow: there was a trap (set) for the purpose of fowling.435
رفت مرغی در میان مرغزار ** بود آنجا دام از بهر شکار
Some grain had been placed on the ground, and the fowler was ensconced there in ambush.
دانه‌ی چندی نهاده بر زمین ** وآن صیاد آنجا نشسته در کمین
He had wrapped himself in leaves and grass, that the wretched prey might slip off from the path (of safety).
خویشتن پیچیده در برگ و گیاه ** تا در افتد صید بیچاره ز راه