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  • Be a vassal since you are not a lord: do not steer (the boat) yourself, since you are not the boatman.
  • تو رعیت باش چون سلطان نه‏ای ** خود مران چون مرد کشتیبان نه‏ای‏

  • Since you are not (spiritually) perfect, do not take a shop (by yourself) alone. Be pliant to the hand, in order that you may become leavened (like dough). 3455
  • چون نه‏ای کامل دکان تنها مگیر ** دست‏خوش می‏باش تا گردی خمیر

  • Give ear to (the Divine command), “Keep silence,” be mute; since you have not become the tongue (mouthpiece) of God, be an ear.
  • أنصتوا را گوش کن خاموش باش ** چون زبان حق نگشتی گوش باش‏

  • And if you speak, speak in the form of a request for explanation: speak to the (spiritual) emperors as a lowly beggar.
  • ور بگویی شکل استفسار گو ** با شهنشاهان تو مسکین‏وار گو

  • The beginning of pride and hatred is in (worldly) lust, and the rootedness of your lust is from habit.
  • ابتدای کبر و کین از شهوت است ** راسخی شهوتت از عادت است‏

  • When an evil disposition becomes confirmed by habit, you are enraged with any one who restrains you.
  • چون ز عادت گشت محکم خوی بد ** خشم آید بر کسی کت واکشد

  • After you have become an eater of clay, any one who restrains you from (eating) clay is your enemy. 3460
  • چون که تو گل خوار گشتی هر که او ** واکشد از گل ترا باشد عدو

  • Since idolaters are devoted to the idol, they are foes to them that prevent their access (to it).
  • بت پرستان چون که خو با بت کنند ** مانعان راه بت را دشمنند

  • Since Iblís had become accustomed to being leader, he in his folly regarded Adam with contempt.
  • چون که کرد ابلیس خو با سروری ** دید آدم را حقیر او از خری‏

  • Saying, “Is there another leader superior to me, so that he should be worshipped by one like me?”
  • که به از من سروری دیگر بود ** تا که او مسجود چون من کس شود

  • Leadership is poison, except to the spirit that from the beginning hath (in himself) abundance of the antidote.
  • سروری زهر است جز آن روح را ** کاو بود تریاق لانی ز ابتدا

  • If the mountain is full of snakes, have no fear, for it is a mine of antidote within. 3465
  • کوه اگر پر مار شد باکی مدار ** کاو بود در اندرون تریاق‏زار

  • When leadership has become a bosom-friend to your brain, any one who breaks (thwarts) you becomes (as) an ancient adversary.
  • سروری چون شد دماغت را ندیم ** هر که بشکستت شود خصم قدیم‏

  • When any one contradicts your disposition (habit of mind), many feelings of hatred against him arise in you.
  • چون خلاف خوی تو گوید کسی ** کینه‏ها خیزد ترا با او بسی‏

  • “He is tearing me (you say) from my (engrained) disposition, he is making himself like a captain over me.”
  • که مرا از خوی من بر می‏کند ** خویش را بر من چو سرور می‏کند

  • Unless the evil disposition has become headstrong in him, how should the fire (of passion) blaze up in him through being opposed?
  • چون نباشد خوی بد سرکش در او ** کی فروزد آن خلاف آتش در او

  • He may show some feigned courtesy to the opponent, he may make a place for himself in his heart, 3470
  • با مخالف او مدارایی کند ** در دل او خویش را جایی کند

  • (But he really hates him), because the evil disposition has waxed strong: the ant of (worldly) lust has through habit become as a snake.
  • ز انکه خوی بد بگشته ست استوار ** مور شهوت شد ز عادت همچو مار

  • Kill the snake of lust in tribulation; else, look you, your snake is become a dragon.
  • مار شهوت را بکش در ابتدا ** ور نه اینک گشت مارت اژدها

  • But every one deems his own snake an ant: do you (then) seek the explanation of yourself (your real state) from him that is lord of the heart.
  • لیک هر کس مور بیند مار خویش ** تو ز صاحب دل کن استفسار خویش‏

  • Until copper becomes gold, it does not know itself to be copper: until the heart becomes a king, it does not know itself to be an insolvent.
  • تا نشد زر مس نداند من مسم ** تا نشد شه دل نداند مفلسم‏

  • Do service to the elixir, like copper: endure oppression, O heart, from him that holds the heart in fee. 3475
  • خدمت اکسیر کن مس‏وار تو ** جور می‏کش ای دل از دل دار تو

  • Who is it that holds the heart in fee? Know well, it is the lords of the heart who, like day and night, are recoiling from the world.
  • کیست دل دار اهل دل نیکو بدان ** که چو روز و شب جهانند از جهان‏

  • Do not find fault with the Servant of God: do not suspect the King of being a thief.
  • عیب کم گو بنده‏ی الله را ** متهم کم کن به دزدی شاه را

  • The miracles of the dervish who was suspected of theft in a ship.
  • کرامات آن درویش که در کشتی متهمش کردند

  • A dervish was in a ship: he had made a bolster (for himself) from the goods of saintly fortitude.
  • بود درویشی درون کشتیی ** ساخته از رخت مردی پشتیی‏