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  • مشک را بی‌‌هوده حق خوش دم نکرد ** بهر حس کرد او پی اخشم نکرد 2385
  • Not in vain did God make musk fragrant: He made it (so) for the sense (of smell), He did not make it for one whose nostrils are stopped (by disease).
  • حق زمین و آسمان بر ساخته ست ** در میان بس نار و نور افراخته ست‌‌
  • God hath fashioned the earth and the sky, He hath raised in the midst much fire and light.
  • این زمین را از برای خاکیان ** آسمان را مسکن افلاکیان‌‌
  • (He made) this earth for those (created) of clay, (He made) heaven to be the abode of the celestials.
  • مرد سفلی دشمن بالا بود ** مشتری هر مکان پیدا بود
  • The low (base) man is the enemy of what is high: the purchaser (seeker) of each place (Heaven or Hell) is manifest (made known by his actions).
  • ای ستیره هیچ تو برخاستی ** خویشتن را بهر کور آراستی‌‌
  • O chaste woman, hast thou ever risen up and decked thyself for the sake of him that is blind?
  • گر جهان را پر در مکنون کنم ** روزی تو چون نباشد چون کنم‌‌ 2390
  • If I should fill the world with hidden pearls (of wisdom), how should I fare (what good would it do me), since they are not thy portion (since thou art unfit to receive them)?
  • ترک جنگ و ره زنی ای زن بگو ** ور نمی‌‌گویی به ترک من بگو
  • O wife, take leave of quarrelling and waylaying, and if thou wilt not, (then) take leave of me!
  • مر مرا چه جای جنگ نیک و بد ** کاین دلم از صلحها هم می‌‌رمد
  • What room have I for quarrelling with the good or the bad? —for this heart of mine is recoiling (even) from acts of peace.
  • گر خمش کردی و گرنه آن کنم ** که همین دم ترک خان و مان کنم‌‌
  • If thou keep silence, (’tis well), and if not, I will so do that at this very moment I will leave my house and home.”
  • مراعات کردن زن شوهر را و استغفار کردن از گفته‌‌ی خویش‌‌
  • How the wife paid regard to her husband and begged God to forgive her for what she had said.
  • زن چو دید او را که تند و توسن است ** گشت گریان گریه خود دام زن است‌‌
  • When the wife saw that he was fierce and unmanageable, she began to weep: tears in sooth are a woman's lure.