- The mosque, too, bears witness to him who performs the ritual prayer, saying, “He came a long way to (visit) me.” 4290
- بر مصلی مسجد آمد هم گواه ** کو همیآمد به من از دور راه
- The fire is (like) flowers and sweet basils and roses to (one like) Khalíl (Abraham); to those like Nimrod, on the contrary, it is death and anguish.
- با خلیل آتش گل و ریحان و ورد ** باز بر نمرودیان مرگست و درد
- We have said this many a time, O Hasan: I will never be weary of setting it forth.
- بارها گفتیم این را ای حسن ** مینگردم از بیانش سیر من
- Many a time have you eaten bread to prevent (yourself from) getting thin: ’tis the same bread: why are not you surfeited?
- بارها خوردی تو نان دفع ذبول ** این همان نانست چون نبوی ملول
- (Because), in normal health, a new hunger comes to you, by which indigestion and satiety are consumed.
- در تو جوعی میرسد تو ز اعتلال ** که همیسوزد ازو تخمه و ملال
- When one actually feels the pangs of hunger, a (sense of) refreshment is associated with every part (of the body). 4295
- هرکه را درد مجاعت نقد شد ** نو شدن با جزو جزوش عقد شد
- The pleasure (of eating) is (derived) from hunger, not from new dessert (viands): hunger makes barley-bread more delicious than sugar.
- لذت از جوعست نه از نقل نو ** با مجاعت از شکر به نان جو
- That weariness, then, is caused by lack of hunger (ardour) and complete (spiritual) indigestion, not by repetition of the discourse.
- پس ز بیجوعیست وز تخمهی تمام ** آن ملالت نه ز تکرار کلام
- How is it that you are not weary of your shop and of haggling and disputing in order to cheat people?
- چون ز دکان و مکاس و قیل و قال ** در فریب مردمت ناید ملال
- How is it that you have not been surfeited by speaking ill of men in their absence and backbiting them for sixty years?
- چون ز غیبت و اکل لحم مردمان ** شصت سالت سیریی نامد از آن