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  • The people said to him, “Do not act with foolhardiness, depart, lest thy (bodily) vesture and thy soul become in pawn (to Death).”
  • قوم گفتندش مکن جلدی برو ** تا نگردد جامه و جانت گرو

  • Froth afar it seems easy, (but) look well! for in the end the passage is grievous.
  • آن ز دور آسان نماید به نگر ** که به آخر سخت باشد ره‌گذر

  • Many a man hanged himself and broke (his neck) and at the moment of agony sought something for his hand to cling to. 3995
  • خویشتن آویخت بس مرد و سکست ** وقت پیچاپیچ دست‌آویز جست

  • Before the battle, the fancy of good or evil is slight (makes no deep impression) in a man’s heart;
  • پیشتر از واقعه آسان بود ** در دل مردم خیال نیک و بد

  • (But) when he enters into the fray, then to that person the matter becomes woeful.
  • چون در آید اندرون کارزار ** آن زمان گردد بر آنکس کار زار

  • Since you are not a lion, beware, do not step forward, for that Doom is a wolf, and your soul is the sheep;
  • چون نه شیری هین منه تو پای پیش ** کان اجل گرگست و جان تست میش

  • But if you are one of the Abdál (saints) and your sheep has become a lion, come on securely, for your death has been over-thrown.
  • ور ز ابدالی و میشت شیر شد ** آمن آ که مرگ تو سرزیر شد

  • Who is the Abdál? He that becomes transmuted, he whose wine is turned into vinegar by Divine transmutation. 4000
  • کیست ابدال آنک او مبدل شود ** خمرش از تبدیل یزدان خل شود

  • But you are drunken, pot-valiant, and from (mere) opinion think yourself to be a lion: Beware, do not advance!
  • لیک مستی شیرگیری وز گمان ** شیر پنداری تو خود را هین مران

  • God bath said of the unrighteous Hypocrites, “Their valour amongst themselves is a great valour.
  • گفت حق ز اهل نفاق ناسدید ** باسهم ما بینهم باس شدید

  • Amongst one another they are manly, (but) in a warlike expedition they are as the women of the house.”
  • در میان همدگر مردانه‌اند ** در غزا چون عورتان خانه‌اند

  • The Prophet; the commander-in-chief of the things unseen, said, “There is no bravery, O youth, before the battles.”
  • گفت پیغامبر سپهدار غیوب ** لا شجاعة یا فتی قبل الحروب

  • The drunken make a froth when there is talk of war, (but) when war is raging they are as unskilled (useless) as froth. 4005
  • وقت لاف غزو مستان کف کنند ** وقت جوش جنگ چون کف بی‌فنند

  • At the time when war is spoken Of, his (such a one’s) scimitar is long (drawn and extended); at the time of combat his sword is (sheathed) like an onion.
  • وقت ذکر غزو شمشیرش دراز ** وقت کر و فر تیغش چون پیاز

  • At the time of premeditation his heart is eager for wounds; then (in action) his bag is emptied (of air) by a single needle.
  • وقت اندیشه دل او زخم‌جو ** پس به یک سوزن تهی شد خیک او

  • I marvel at the seeker of purity who at the time of polishing shrinks from being handled roughly.
  • من عجب دارم ز جویای صفا ** کو رمد در وقت صیقل از جفا

  • Love is like the lawsuit; to suffer harsh treatment is (like) the evidence: when you have no evidence, the lawsuit is lost.
  • عشق چون دعوی جفا دیدن گواه ** چون گواهت نیست شد دعوی تباه

  • Do not be aggrieved when this Judge demands your evidence: kiss the snake in order that you may gain the treasure. 4010
  • چون گواهت خواهد این قاضی مرنج ** بوسه ده بر مار تا یابی تو گنج

  • That harshness is not towards you, O son; nay, towards the evil qualities within you.
  • آن جفا با تو نباشد ای پسر ** بلک با وصف بدی اندر تو در

  • The blows of the stick with which a man beats a rug he inflicts, not on the rug, but on the dust (in the rug).
  • بر نمد چوبی که آن را مرد زد ** بر نمد آن را نزد بر گرد زد

  • If that vindictive fellow lashes the horse, he directs the blows, not at the horse, but at its stumbling,
  • گر بزد مر اسپ را آن کینه کش ** آن نزد بر اسپ زد بر سکسکش

  • In order that it may be delivered from (the vice of) stumbling and may move well: you imprison must (in the vat) in order that it may become wine.
  • تا ز سکسک وا رهد خوش‌پی شود ** شیره را زندان کنی تا می‌شود

  • He (some one) said, “Thou hast struck that little orphan so many blows: how wert not thou afraid of the Divine wrath?” 4015
  • گفت چندان آن یتیمک را زدی ** چون نترسیدی ز قهر ایزدی

  • He (the striker) said, “O (dear) soul and friend, when did I strike him? I struck at the devil that is in him,”
  • گفت او را کی زدم ای جان و دوست ** من بر آن دیوی زدم کو اندروست

  • If your mother say to you, “Mayst thou die!” she wishes the death of that (evil) nature (of yours) and the death of iniquity.
  • مادر ار گوید ترا مرگ تو باد ** مرگ آن خو خواهد و مرگ فساد