- But it does not show itself, because praise is sweet; (in the case of blame) the evil shows itself, because blame is bitter.
- لیک ننماید چو شیرین است مدح ** بد نماید ز آن که تلخ افتاد قدح
- It (blame) is like (bitter) decoctions and pills which you swallow and for a long time you are in disturbance and pain,
- همچو مطبوخ است و حب کان را خوری ** تا به دیری شورش و رنج اندری
- Whereas, if you eat halwá (sweetmeat), its taste is momentary: this effect, like the other, is not enduring for ever.
- ور خوری حلوا بود ذوقش دمی ** این اثر چون آن نمیپاید همی
- Since it does not endure (perceptibly), it endures imperceptibly: recognise every opposite by means of its opposite. 1865
- چون نمیپاید همیپاید نهان ** هر ضدی را تو به ضد او بدان
- When the effect of sugar endures (remains latent), after a while it produces boils that call for the lancet.
- چون شکر پاید نهان تاثیر او ** بعد حینی دمل آرد نیش جو
- The fleshly soul was made a Pharaoh by (receiving) many praises: be lowly of spirit through meekness, do not domineer.
- نفس از بس مدحها فرعون شد ** کن ذلیل النفس هونا لا تسد
- So far as you can, become a slave, do not be a monarch. Suffer blows: become like the ball, do not be the bat.
- تا توانی بنده شو سلطان مباش ** زخم کش چون گوی شو چوگان مباش
- Otherwise, when this elegance and beauty remains with you no more, you will be loathed by those companions.
- ور نه چون لطفت نماند وین جمال ** از تو آید آن حریفان را ملال
- The set of people who used to flatter you deceitfully, when they behold you will call you a devil. 1870
- آن جماعت کت همیدادند ریو ** چون ببینندت بگویندت که دیو
- When they see you at their doors, they all will cry, “Truly a dead man has risen from the grave.”
- جمله گویندت چو بینندت به در ** مردهای از گور خود بر کرد سر
- (You will be) like the beardless youth whom they address as “Lord” that by this hypocrisy they may make entrap him.
- همچو امرد که خدا نامش کنند ** تا بدین سالوس در دامش کنند
- As soon as he has grown a beard in infamy, the Devil is ashamed to search after him.
- چون که در بد نامی آمد ریش او ** دیو را ننگ آید از تفتیش او
- The Devil approaches Man for the sake of wickedness: he does not approach you because you are worse than the Devil.
- دیو سوی آدمی شد بهر شر ** سوی تو ناید که از دیوی بتر
- So long as you were a man the Devil was running at your heels and bidding you taste (his) wine. 1875
- تا تو بودی آدمی دیو از پیات ** میدوید و میچشانید او میات
- Since you have become confirmed in devilry, the good-for-nothing Devil is fleeing from you!
- چون شدی در خوی دیوی استوار ** میگریزد از تو دیو نابکار
- He who (formerly) clung to your skirt fled from you when you became like this.
- آن که اندر دامنت آویخت او ** چون چنین گشتی ز تو بگریخت او
- Explanation of (the Tradition) “Whatsoever God wills cometh to pass.”
- تفسیر ما شاء الله کان
- We have spoken all these words, but in preparing ourselves (for the journey before us) we are naught, naught without the favours of God.
- این همه گفتیم لیک اندر بسیچ ** بیعنایات خدا هیچیم هیچ
- Without the favours of God and God's elect ones, angel though he be, his page is black.
- بیعنایات حق و خاصان حق ** گر ملک باشد سیاه استش ورق
- O God, O Thou whose bounty fulfils (every) need, it is not allowable to mention any one beside Thee. 1880
- ای خدا ای فضل تو حاجت روا ** با تو یاد هیچ کس نبود روا
- This amount of guidance Thou hast bestowed (upon us); till this (present time) Thou hast covered up many a fault of ours.
- این قدر ارشاد تو بخشیدهای ** تا بدین بس عیب ما پوشیدهای
- Cause the drop of knowledge which Thou gavest (us) heretofore to become united with Thy seas.
- قطرهای دانش که بخشیدی ز پیش ** متصل گردان به دریاهای خویش
- In my soul there is a drop of knowledge: deliver it from sensuality and from the body's clay,
- قطرهای علم است اندر جان من ** وارهانش از هوا وز خاک تن
- Before these clays drink it up, before these winds absorb it,
- پیش از آن کاین خاکها خسفش کنند ** پیش از آن کاین بادها نشفش کنند
- Although, when they absorb it, Thou art able to take it back from them and redeem it. 1885
- گر چه چون نشفش کند تو قادری ** کش از ایشان واستانی واخری
- The drop that vanished in the air or was spilled (on the earth)—when did it flee (escape) from the storehouse of Thy omnipotence?
- قطرهای کاو در هوا شد یا که ریخت ** از خزینهی قدرت تو کی گریخت