The patience shown by all the prophets to the unbelievers made them the elect of God and lords of the planetary conjunction.1410
صبر جملهی انبیا با منکران ** کردشان خاص حق و صاحبقران
When you see any one wearing goodly raiment, know that he has gained it by patience and work.
هر که را بینی یکی جامه درست ** دانک او آن را به صبر و کسب جست
If you have seen any one naked and destitute, that is a testimony of his lack of patience.
هرکه را دیدی برهنه و بینوا ** هست بر بیصبری او آن گوا
Any one who feels lonely and whose soul is full of anguish must have associated with an impostor.
هرکه مستوحش بود پر غصه جان ** کرده باشد با دغایی اقتران
If he had shown patience and loyal friendship (to God), he would not have suffered this affliction through being separated from Him.
صبر اگر کردی و الف با وفا ** ار فراق او نخوردی این قفا
He would have consorted with God as honey with milk, saying, “I love not them that set.”1415
خوی با حق نساختی چون انگبین ** با لبن که لا احب الافلین
(Then) assuredly he would not have remained alone, even as a fire left on the road by caravaneers.
لاجرم تنها نماندی همچنان ** که آتشی مانده به راه از کاروان
(But) since from lack of patience he associated himself with others (than God), in separation from Him he became sorrowful and deprived of good.
چون ز بیصبری قرین غیر شد ** در فراقش پر غم و بیخیر شد
Since your friendship is (precious) as pure gold, how are you placing it in trust with a traitor?
صحبتت چون هست زر دهدهی ** پیش خاین چون امانت مینهی
Consort with Him with whom your trusts are safe from loss and violation.
خوی با او کن که امانتهای تو ** آمن آید از افول و از عتو
Consort with Him who created (human) nature and fostered the natures of the prophets.1420
خوی با او کن که خو را آفرید ** خویهای انبیا را پرورید
(If) you give (Him) a lamb, He will give you back a (whole) flock (of sheep): verily the Lord is the fosterer of every (good) quality.
برهای بدهی رمه بازت دهد ** پرورندهی هر صفت خود رب بود
Will you entrust the lamb to the wolf? (Nay), do not tell the wolf and Joseph to travel in company with each other.
بره پیش گرگ امانت مینهی ** گرگ و یوسف را مفرما همرهی
If the wolf show foxiness towards you (fawn upon you), beware, do not believe (him), for no goodness comes from him.
گرگ اگر با تو نماید روبهی ** هین مکن باور که ناید زو بهی
If a churl show sympathy towards you, (yet) in the end he will inflict blows upon you because of his churlishness.
جاهل ار با تو نماید همدلی ** عاقبت زحمت زند از جاهلی
Ille duo instrumenta habet et androgynus est: amborum effectus sine dubio apparet. [He has two organs and is a hermaphrodite: the operation of both is obvious, without doubt.]1425
او دو آلت دارد و خنثی بود ** فعل هر دو بیگمان پیدا شود
Penem oculis feminarum subtrahit ut sese earum sororem faciat. [He hides (his) penis from women in order to make himself (seem like) their sister.]
او ذکر را از زنان پنهان کند ** تا که خود را خواهر ایشان کند
Vulvam ne viri videant manu obtegit, ut sese de genere virorum faciat. [He hides (his) vulva from men with (his) hand in order to make himself (seem like) the (same) gender as the men.]
شله از مردان به کف پنهان کند ** تا که خود را جنس آن مردان کند
Dixit Deus, “Ex ejus cunno occulto scissuram in naso ejus faciemus, [God said, “Because of that hidden vulva of his, We will make a slit on his nose,]
گفت یزدان زان کس مکتوم او ** شلهای سازیم بر خرطوم او
In order that Our seers may not be entrapped by the artfulness of that ogler.”
تا که بینایان ما زان ذو دلال ** در نیایند از فن او در جوال
The gist (of the matter) is that masculinity does not come from every male: beware of the ignorant man if you are wise.1430
حاصل آنک از هر ذکر ناید نری ** هین ز جاهل ترس اگر دانشوری
Do not listen to the friendliness of the fair-spoken ignorant man, for it is like old (virulent) poison.
دوستی جاهل شیرینسخن ** کم شنو کان هست چون سم کهن
He says to you, “O soul of thy mother! O light of my eye!” (but) from those (endearments) only grief and sorrow are added to you.
جان مادر چشم روشن گویدت ** جز غم و حسرت از آن نفزویدت
That (foolish) mother says plainly to your father, “My child has grown very thin because of (going to) school.
مر پدر را گوید آن مادر جهار ** که ز مکتب بچهام شد بس نزار
If thou hadst gotten him by another wife, thou wouldst not have treated him with such cruelty and unkindness.”
از زن دیگر گرش آوردیی ** بر وی این جور و جفا کم کردیی