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  • He that swallows Lá hawl from the breath (mouth) of the Devil, like that ass falls headlong in the fight.
  • از دم دیو آن که او لاحول خورد ** هم چو آن خر در سر آید در نبرد

  • Whoever swallows the Devil's imposture in this world and (swallows) veneration and deceit from the foe that has the face (semblance) of a friend,
  • هر که در دنیا خورد تلبیس دیو ** و ز عدوی دوست رو تعظیم و ریو

  • In the Way of Islam and on the bridge Sirát he will fall upon his head from giddiness, like that ass. 255
  • در ره اسلام و بر پول صراط ** در سر آید همچو آن خر از خباط

  • Beware! Do not hearken to the blandishments of the bad friend: espy the snare, do not walk securely on the earth.
  • عشوه‏های یار بد منیوش هین ** دام بین ایمن مرو تو بر زمین‏

  • See the hundred thousand devils who utter Lá hawl! O Adam, in the serpent behold Iblís!
  • صد هزار ابلیس لاحول آر بین ** آدما ابلیس را در مار بین‏

  • He gives (you) vain words, he says to you, “O my soul and beloved,” that he may strip the skin off his beloved, like a butcher.
  • دم دهد گوید ترا ای جان و دوست ** تا چو قصابی کشد از دوست پوست‏

  • He gives vain words that he may strip off your skin: woe to him that tastes opium from (the mouth of) enemies.
  • دم دهد تا پوستت بیرون کشد ** وای او کز دشمنان آفیون چشد

  • He lays his head at your feet (in flattery) and butcher-like gives (you) vain (wheedling) words, that he may shed your blood miserably. 260
  • سر نهد بر پای تو قصاب‏وار ** دم دهد تا خونت ریزد زار زار

  • Like a lion, hunt your prey yourself: leave (pay no heed to) the blandishment of stranger or kinsman.
  • همچو شیری صید خود را خویش کن ** ترک عشوه‏ی اجنبی و خویش کن‏

  • Know that the regard of the base is like that servant; ’tis better to have nobody (as your friend) than (to accept) the flattery of nobodies (worthless people).
  • همچو خادم دان مراعات خسان ** بی‏کسی بهتر ز عشوه‏ی ناکسان‏

  • Do not make your home in (other) men's land: do your own work, don't do the work of a stranger.
  • در زمین مردمان خانه مکن ** کار خود کن کار بیگانه مکن‏

  • Who is the stranger? Your earthen body, for the sake of which is (all) your sorrow.
  • کیست بیگانه تن خاکی تو ** کز برای اوست غمناکی تو

  • So long as you are giving your body greasy (rich) and sweet (food), you will not see fatness in your (spiritual) essence. 265
  • تا تو تن را چرب و شیرین می‏دهی ** جوهر خود را نبینی فربهی‏

  • If the body be set in the midst of musk, (yet) on the day of death its stench will become manifest.
  • گر میان مشک تن را جا شود ** روز مردن گند او پیدا شود

  • Do not put musk on your body, rub it on your heart. What is musk? The holy name of the Glorious (God).
  • مشک را بر تن مزن بر دل بمال ** مشک چه بود نام پاک ذو الجلال‏

  • The hypocrite puts musk on his body and puts his spirit at the bottom of the ash-pit.
  • آن منافق مشک بر تن می‏نهد ** روح را در قعر گلخن می‏نهد

  • On his tongue the name of God, and in his soul stenches (arising) from his infidel thought.
  • بر زبان نام حق و در جان او ** گندها از فکر بی‏ایمان او

  • In relation to him praise of God is (like) the herbage of the ash-pit: it is roses and lilies (growing) upon a dunghill. 270
  • ذکر با او همچو سبزه گلخن است ** بر سر مبرز گلست و سوسن است

  • Those plants are certainly there on loan (and belong to somewhere else); the proper place for those flowers is the symposium and (the scene of) festivity.
  • آن نبات آن جا یقین عاریت است ** جای آن گل مجلس است و عشرت است‏

  • The good women come to the good men; there is (also the text) to the wicked men the wicked women. Mark!
  • طیبات آید به سوی طیبین ** للخبیثین الخبیثات است هین‏

  • Do not bear malice: they that are led astray by malice, their graves are placed beside the malicious.
  • کین مدار آنها که از کین گمرهند ** گورشان پهلوی کین داران نهند

  • The origin of malice is Hell, and your malice is a part of that whole and is the enemy of your religion.
  • اصل کینه دوزخ است و کین تو ** جزو آن کل است و خصم دین تو

  • Since you are a part of Hell, take care! The part gravitates towards its whole. 275
  • چون تو جزو دوزخی پس هوش دار ** جزو سوی کل خود گیرد قرار

  • He that is bitter will assuredly be attached to those who are bitter: how should vain breath (false words) be joined with the truth?
  • تلخ با تلخان یقین ملحق شود ** کی دم باطل قرین حق شود

  • O brother, you are that same thought (of yours); as for the rest (of you), you are (only) bone and fibre.
  • ای برادر تو همان اندیشه‏ای ** ما بقی تو استخوان و ریشه‏ای‏