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  • When the harp of wisdom breaks into melody, (bethink yourself) what door of the Garden of Paradise has been opened.
  • چنگ حکمت چونک خوش‌آواز شد  ** تا چه در از روض جنت باز شد 

  • When the sound of evil speech becomes loud, (bethink yourself) what door of Hell is being opened. 3485
  • بانگ گفت بد چو دروا می‌شود  ** از سقر تا خود چه در وا می‌شود 

  • Since you are far from its door, hearken to the sound of the door: oh, blest is he whose eye has been opened (so that he can recognise the wicked).
  • بانگ در بشنو چو دوری از درش  ** ای خنک او را که وا شد منظرش 

  • When you are aware of doing a good action, you obtain a (feeling of spiritual) life and joy;
  • چون تو می‌بینی که نیکی می‌کنی  ** بر حیات و راحتی بر می‌زنی 

  • And when a fault and evil deed issues (from you), that (feeling of) life and rapture disappears.
  • چونک تقصیر و فسادی می‌رود  ** آن حیات و ذوق پنهان می‌شود 

  • Do not abandon your own eye (judgement) from regard for the vile, for these vultures will lead you to the carcase.
  • دید خود مگذار از دید خسان  ** که به مردارت کشند این کرکسان 

  • You close your narcissus-like eye, saying, “What (is it)? Hey, sir, take my stick (and show me the way), for I am blind”; 3490
  • چشم چون نرگس فروبندی که چی  ** هین عصاام کش که کورم ای اچی 

  • But if you would only look, (you would see that) the guide whom you have chosen for the journey is (even) blinder than you.
  • وان عصاکش که گزیدی در سفر  ** خود ببینی باشد از تو کورتر 

  • Grasp in a blind man's fashion the rope of Allah: do not cling to aught but the Divine commandments and prohibitions.
  • دست کورانه به حبل الله زن  ** جز بر امر و نهی یزدانی متن 

  • What is the rope of Allah? To renounce self-will, for this self-will was a roaring wind (of destruction) to (the people of) ‘Ád.
  • چیست حبل‌الله رها کردن هوا  ** کین هوا شد صرصری مر عاد را 

  • ’Tis from self-will that folk are sitting in gaol, ’tis from self-will that the (trapped) bird's wings are tied.
  • خلق در زندان نشسته از هواست  ** مرغ را پرها ببسته از هواست 

  • ’Tis from self-will that the fish is (cooked) in a hot pan, ’tis from self-will that shame (bashfulness) is gone from the modest. 3495
  • ماهی اندر تابه‌ی گرم از هواست  ** رفته از مستوریان شرم از هواست 

  • The anger of the police magistrate is a fiery spark from self-will; crucifixion and the awfulness of the gallows are (the consequence) of self-will.
  • خشم شحنه شعله‌ی نار از هواست  ** چارمیخ و هیبت دار از هواست 

  • You have seen the magistrate (who carries out the punishment) of bodies on the earth: (now) see also the magistrate who executes judgements against the soul.
  • شحنه‌ی اجسام دیدی بر زمین  ** شحنه‌ی احکام جان را هم ببین 

  • Verily tortures are inflicted on the soul in the world invisible, but until you escape (from self-will) the torture is concealed (from view).
  • روح را در غیب خود اشکنجه‌هاست  ** لیک تا نجهی شکنجه در خفاست 

  • When you are freed you will behold the torture and perdition (of the soul), because contrary is made manifest by contrary.
  • چون رهیدی بینی اشکنجه و دمار  ** زانک ضد از ضد گردد آشکار 

  • He that was born in the well (of the material world) and the black water, how should he know the pleasantness of the open country and (distinguish it from) the pain of (being in) the well? 3500
  • آنک در چه زاد و در آب سیاه  ** او چه داند لطف دشت و رنج چاه 

  • When, from fear of God, you have relinquished self-will, the goblet (of drink) from God's Tasním will arrive.
  • چون رها کردی هوا از بیم حق  ** در رسد سغراق از تسنیم حق 

  • Do not in your self-will make a way: ask of God's Majesty the way to Salsabíl.
  • لا تطرق فی هواک سل سبیل  ** من جناب الله نحو السلسبیل 

  • Be not submissive to self-will (and yielding) like hay: in sooth the shade of the Divine Throne is better than the summer-house (of the world).
  • لا تکن طوع الهوی مثل الحشیش  ** ان ظل العرش اولی من عریش 

  • The Sultan said, “Take the horse back (to the Amír) and with all speed redeem (deliver) me from (committing) this wrong.”
  • گفت سلطان اسپ را وا پس برید  ** زودتر زین مظلمه بازم خرید 

  • The King did not say in his heart, “Do not (seek to) deceive the lion so greatly by means of the head of an ox. 3505
  • با دل خود شه نفرمود این قدر  ** شیر را مفریب زین راس البقر 

  • You (the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk) drag in the ox in order to cheat (me): begone, God does not stick the horns of an ox upon a horse.”
  • پای گاو اندر میان آری ز داو  ** رو ندوزد حق بر اسپی شاخ گاو 

  • This renowned Master-builder observes great congruity in His workmanship: how should He attach to a horse's body part of (the body of) an ox?
  • بس مناسب صنعتست این شهره زاو  ** کی نهد بر جسم اسپ او عضو گاو 

  • The Master-builder has made (all) bodies congruously: He has constructed moving palaces,
  • زاو ابدان را مناسب ساخته  ** قصرهای منتقل پرداخته