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  • لطف عقل خوش نهاد خوش نسب ** چون همه تن را در آرد در ادب‌‌
  • How the grace of Reason, which is of goodly nature, of goodly lineage, brings the entire body into discipline;

  • عشق شنگ بی‌‌قرار بی‌‌سکون ** چون در آرد کل تن را در جنون‌‌
  • How Love, saucy, uncontrolled, and restless, throws the whole body into madness.

  • لطف آب بحر کاو چون کوثر است ** سنگ ریزه‌‌ش جمله در و گوهر است‌‌
  • The purity of the water of the Sea that is like Kawthar (is such that) all its pebbles are pearls and gems.

  • هر هنر که استا بدان معروف شد ** جان شاگردان بدان موصوف شد
  • For whatever science the master is renowned, the souls of his pupils become endued with the same.

  • پیش استاد اصولی هم اصول ** خواند آن شاگرد چست با حصول‌‌ 2830
  • With the master-theologian the quick and industrious pupil reads (scholastic) theology.

  • پیش استاد فقیه آن فقه خوان ** فقه خواند نی اصول اندر بیان‌‌
  • With the master-jurist the student of jurisprudence reads jurisprudence, when he (the teacher) expounds it, not theology.

  • پیش استادی که او نحوی بود ** جان شاگردش از او نحوی شود
  • With the master who is a grammarian—the soul of his pupil becomes imbued by him with grammar.

  • باز استادی که او محو ره است ** جان شاگردش از او محو شه است‌‌
  • Again, the master who is absorbed in the Way (of Súfism)— because of him the soul of his pupil is absorbed in the King (God).

  • زین همه انواع دانش روز مرگ ** دانش فقر است ساز راه و برگ‌‌
  • Of all these various kinds of knowledge, on the day of death the (best) equipment and provision for the road is the knowledge of (spiritual) poverty.

  • حکایت ماجرای نحوی و کشتیبان‌‌
  • The story of what passed between the grammarian and the boatman.

  • آن یکی نحوی به کشتی درنشست ** رو به کشتیبان نهاد آن خود پرست‌‌ 2835
  • A certain grammarian embarked in a boat. That self-conceited person turned to the boatman