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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).
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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.
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حکایت ماجرای نحوی و کشتیبان
- The story of what passed between the grammarian and the boatman.
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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
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گفت هیچ از نحو خواندی گفت لا ** گفت نیم عمر تو شد در فنا
- And said, “Have you ever studied grammar?” “No,” he replied. The other said, “Half your life is gone to naught.”
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دل شکسته گشت کشتیبان ز تاب ** لیک آن دم کرد خامش از جواب
- The boatman became heart-broken with grief, but at the time he refrained from answering.
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باد کشتی را به گردابی فگند ** گفت کشتیبان به آن نحوی بلند
- The wind cast the boat into a whirlpool: the boatman spoke loud (shouted) to the grammarian,
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هیچ دانی آشنا کردن بگو ** گفت نی ای خوش جواب خوب رو
- “Tell me, do you know how to swim?” “No,” said he, “O fair-spoken good-looking man!”
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گفت کل عمرت ای نحوی فناست ** ز آن که کشتی غرق این گردابهاست 2840
- “O grammarian,” said he, “your whole life is naught, because the boat is sinking in these whirlpools.”
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محو می‌‌باید نه نحو اینجا بدان ** گر تو محوی بی‌‌خطر در آب ران
- Know that here mahw (self-effacement) is needed, not nah? (grammar): if you are mahw (dead to self), plunge into the sea without peril.
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آب دریا مرده را بر سر نهد ** ور بود زنده ز دریا کی رهد
- The water of the sea places the dead one on its head (causes him to float on the surface); but if he be living, how shall he escape from the sea?