- (And) like the land-bird that falls into great waters: what should it find there but death and perdition? 4430
- همچو مرغ خاک که آید در بحار ** زان چه یابد جز هلاک و جز خسار
- (And) like one who, having no wheat, goes to a mill: nothing will be given to him except the whitening of his beard and hair (with flour).
- همچو بیگندم شده در آسیا ** جز سپیدی ریش و مو نبود عطا
- The celestial mill bestows on those who have no wheat (only) whiteness of hair and weakness in the loins;
- آسیای چرخ بر بیگندمان ** موسپیدی بخشد و ضعف میان
- But on those who bring wheat with them this mill bestows empire and gives them sovereign power.
- لیک با باگندمان این آسیا ** ملکبخش آمد دهد کار و کیا
- You must first be qualified for Paradise in order that from Paradise the (everlasting) life may be born to you.
- اول استعداد جنت بایدت ** تا ز جنت زندگانی زایدت
- What pleasure has the new-born child in wine and roast-meat and palaces and domes? 4435
- طفل نو را از شراب و از کباب ** چه حلاوت وز قصور و از قباب
- These parables have no limit: do not seek (more) words (of this kind): go and acquire capability!
- حد ندارد این مثل کم جو سخن ** تو برو تحصیل استعداد کن
- (The announcer said), “He tarried until now for the sake of capability (qualification), (but) ere it was acquired his longing burst (all) bounds.”
- بهر استعداد تا اکنون نشست ** شوق از حد رفت و آن نامد به دست
- He (the prince) said, “Capability too is imparted by the King: how should the body be made capable without (the intervention of) the soul?”
- گفت استعداد هم از شه رسد ** بی ز جان کی مستعد گردد جسد
- (Then) the favours of the King did away with his anguish: he had gone to hunt the King: he became the King's prey.
- لطفهای شه غمش را در نوشت ** شد که صید شه کند او صید گشت