- Hark, though the stars of heaven are far away and thy senses are (too) dull and slack (to apprehend their motions),
- اختران چرخ گر دورند هی ** وین حواست کاهلاند و سستپی
- (Yet ask thyself) where are our stars—eye, ear, and mind—at night, and where (are they) when we are awake?
- اختران چشم و گوش و هوش ما ** شب کجااند و به بیداری کجا
- Now (they are) in good luck and union and happiness; now in ill-luck and separation and insensibility.
- گاه در سعد و وصال و دلخوشی ** گاه در نحس فراق و بیهشی
- Since the moon of heaven is (engaged) in making this circuit, she is sometimes dark and sometimes bright.
- ماه گردون چون درین گردیدنست ** گاه تاریک و زمانی روشنست
- Sometimes ’tis spring and summer, (delicious) as honey and milk; sometimes (the world is) a place of punishment by snow and piercing cold. 925
- گه بهار و صیف همچون شهد و شیر ** گه سیاستگاه برف و زمهریر
- Seeing that before Him (God) universals are like a ball, subject (to Him) and prostrating themselves before His bat,
- چونک کلیات پیش او چو گوست ** سخره و سجده کن چوگان اوست
- How shouldst thou, O heart, which art (but) one of these hundred thousand particulars, not be in restless movement at His decree?
- تو که یک جزوی دلا زین صدهزار ** چون نباشی پیش حکمش بیقرار
- Be at the disposal of the Prince, like a horse (or mule), now confined in the stable, now going (on the road).
- چون ستوری باش در حکم امیر ** گه در آخر حبس گاهی در مسیر
- When He fastens thee to a peg, be fastened (quiet and submissive); when He looses thee, go, be exultant (prance and bound).
- چونک بر میخت ببندد بسته باش ** چونک بگشاید برو بر جسته باش
- (But keep on the right road, for when) the sun in heaven jumps crookedly, He causes it to be eclipsed in black disgrace, 930
- آفتاب اندر فلک کژ میجهد ** در سیهروزی خسوفش میدهد
- Saying, “Avoid the (Dragon's) Tail: hark, take heed, lest thou become black of face like a cooking-pot.”
- کز ذنب پرهیز کن هین هوشدار ** تا نگردی تو سیهرو دیگوار
- The cloud, too, is lashed with a whip of fire, (as through to say), “Go that way, do not go this way!
- ابر را هم تازیانهی آتشین ** میزنندش کانچنان رو نه چنین
- Rain upon such and such a valley, do not rain in this quarter”: He reprimands it, saying, “Give ear!
- بر فلان وادی ببار این سو مبار ** گوشمالش میدهد که گوش دار
- Thy reason is not superior to a sun: do not stay in (dally with) a thought that has been forbidden.
- عقل تو از آفتابی بیش نیست ** اندر آن فکری که نهی آمد مهایست
- O Reason, do not thou too step crookedly, lest that eclipse of (the bright) face befall (thee). 935
- کژ منه ای عقل تو هم گام خویش ** تا نیاید آن خسوف رو به پیش
- When (thy) sin is less, thou wilt see half the sun eclipsed and half radiant,
- چون گنه کمتر بود نیم آفتاب ** منکسف بینی و نیمی نورتاب
- For I punish thee in proportion to thy sin: this is the principle laid down for justice and retribution.
- که به قدر جرم میگیرم ترا ** این بود تقریر در داد و جزا
- Whether (thou art) good or bad or open or secret, I am He that overheareth and overseeth all things.”
- خواه نیک و خواه بد فاش و ستیر ** بر همه اشیا سمیعیم و بصیر
- Leave this topic, O father: New Year's Day is come: the creatures have had their mouths made sweet by the Creator.
- زین گذر کن ای پدر نوروز شد ** خلق از خلاق خوش پدفوز شد
- The spiritual Water (of Life) has returned into our river-bed, our King has returned into our street. 940
- باز آمد آب جان در جوی ما ** باز آمد شاه ما در کوی ما
- Fortune is strutting and (proudly) trailing her skirt and beating the drums (as a signal) to break vows of repentance.
- میخرامد بخت و دامن میکشد ** نوبت توبه شکستن میزند
- Once more the flood-water has swept repentance away: the opportunity has arrived, the watchman is overcome by sleep.
- توبه را بار دگر سیلاب برد ** فرصت آمد پاسبان را خواب برد
- Every toper has drunk the wine and is intoxicated: to-night we will pawn all our belongings.
- هر خماری مست گشت و باده خورد ** رخت را امشب گرو خواهیم کرد
- From (drinking) the ruby wine of the life-increasing Spirit we are ruby within ruby within ruby.
- زان شراب لعل جان جانفزا ** لعل اندر لعل اندر لعل ما
- Once more the assembly-place has become flourishing and heart-illuminating: arise and burn rue-seed to keep off the evil eye. 945
- باز خرم گشت مجلس دلفروز ** خیز دفع چشم بد اسپند سوز