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در یکی گفته که آن چه‌‌ت داد حق ** بر تو شیرین کرد در ایجاد حق 480
- In one he said: “That which God hath given you He made sweet to you in (at the time of) bringing it into existence.
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بر تو آسان کرد و خوش آن را بگیر ** خویشتن را در میفگن در زحیر
- He made it easy (blessed) to you, and do you take it gladly: do not throw yourself into anguish.”
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در یکی گفته که بگذار آن خود ** کان قبول طبع تو ردست و بد
- In one he said: “Let go all that belongs to self, for it is wrong and bad to comply with your nature.”
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راههای مختلف آسان شده ست ** هر یکی را ملتی چون جان شده ست
- (Many) different roads have become easy (to follow): every one's religion has become (to him) as (dear) as life.
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گر میسر کردن حق ره بدی ** هر جهود و گبر از او آگه بدی
- If God's making (religion) easy were the (right) road, every Jew and Zoroastrian would have knowledge of Him.
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در یکی گفته میسر آن بود ** که حیات دل غذای جان بود 485
- In one he said: “That (alone) is made easy (blessed) that (nothing but) spiritual food should be the life of the heart.”
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هر چه ذوق طبع باشد چون گذشت ** بر نیارد همچو شوره ریع و کشت
- When the enjoyments of the (sensual) nature are past, like brackish soil they raise no produce and crop.
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جز پشیمانی نباشد ریع او ** جز خسارت پیش نارد بیع او
- The produce thereof is naught but penitence; the sale thereof yields only loss.
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آن میسر نبود اندر عاقبت ** نام او باشد معسر عاقبت
- That is not “easy” in the end; its (true) name ultimately is “hard.”
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تو معسر از میسر باز دان ** عاقبت بنگر جمال این و آن
- Distinguish the hard from the easy: consider (what is) the goodliness of this and that in the end.