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1311-1335

  • O you who on account of (your) high estate are committing an act of injustice, know that you are digging a well (pit) for yourself.
  • ای که تو از ظلم چاهی می‌‌کنی ** دان که بهر خویش دامی می‌‌کنی‌‌

  • Do not weave (a cocoon) round yourself, like the silkworm. You are digging a well for yourself (to fall in): dig with moderation (not too deep).
  • گرد خود چون کرم پیله بر متن ** بهر خود چه می‌‌کنی اندازه کن‌‌

  • Deem not the weak to be without a champion: recite from the Qur’án (the words), When the help of God shall come.
  • مر ضعیفان را تو بی‌‌خصمی مدان ** از نبی ذا جاء نصر الله خوان‌‌

  • If you are an elephant and your foe fled from you, lo, the retribution came upon you, birds in flocks.
  • گر تو پیلی خصم تو از تو رمید ** نک جزا طیرا ابابیلت رسید

  • If any poor man on the earth beg for mercy, a loud tumult falls on (arises among) the Host of Heaven. 1315
  • گر ضعیفی در زمین خواهد امان ** غلغل افتد در سپاه آسمان‌‌

  • If you bite him with your teeth and make him bleed, toothache will attack you—how will you do (then)?
  • گر بدندانش گزی پر خون کنی ** درد دندانت بگیرد چون کنی‌‌

  • The lion saw himself in the well, and in his fury he did not know himself at that moment from the enemy.
  • شیر خود را دید در چه وز غلو ** خویش را نشناخت آن دم از عدو

  • He regarded his own reflexion as his enemy: necessarily he drew a sword against himself.
  • عکس خود را او عدوی خویش دید ** لا جرم بر خویش شمشیری کشید

  • Oh, many an iniquity that you see in others is your own nature (reflected) in them, O reader!
  • ای بسا ظلمی که بینی از کسان ** خوی تو باشد در ایشان ای فلان‌‌

  • In them shone forth all that you are in your hypocrisy and iniquity and insolence. 1320
  • اندر ایشان تافته هستی تو ** از نفاق و ظلم و بد مستی تو

  • You are that (evil-doer), and you are striking those blows at yourself: you are weaving a curse upon yourself at that moment.
  • آن تویی و آن زخم بر خود می‌‌زنی ** بر خود آن دم تار لعنت می‌‌تنی‌‌

  • You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with (all) your soul.
  • در خود آن بد را نمی‌‌بینی عیان ** ور نه دشمن بودیی خود را به جان‌‌

  • You are assaulting yourself, O simpleton, like the lion who made a rush at himself.
  • حمله بر خود می‌‌کنی ای ساده مرد ** همچو آن شیری که بر خود حمله کرد

  • When you reach the bottom of your own nature, then you will know that that vileness was from yourself.
  • چون به قعر خوی خود اندر رسی ** پس بدانی کز تو بود آن ناکسی‌‌

  • At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image. 1325
  • شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود

  • Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.
  • هر که دندان ضعیفی می‌‌کند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین می‌‌کند

  • O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!
  • ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم‌‌

  • The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.
  • مومنان آیینه‌‌ی همدیگرند ** این خبر می‌‌از پیمبر آورند

  • You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.
  • پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود

  • Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else). 1330
  • گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌

  • If the true believer was not seeing by the Light of God, how did things unseen appear naked (plainly revealed) to the true believer?
  • مومن ار ینظر بنور الله نبود ** غیب مومن را برهنه چون نمود

  • Inasmuch as you were seeing by the Fire of God, in (your) badness you became forgetful of goodness.
  • چون که تو ینظر بنار الله بدی ** در بدی از نیکویی غافل شدی‌‌

  • Little by little throw water on the fire, that your fire may become light, O man of sorrow!
  • اندک اندک آب بر آتش بزن ** تا شود نار تو نور ای بو الحزن‌‌

  • Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.
  • تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور

  • All the water of the sea is under Thy command; water and fire, O Lord, are Thine. 1335
  • آب دریا جمله در فرمان تست ** آب و آتش ای خداوند آن تست‌‌