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کژ ندانم آن نکو اندیش را ** متهم دارم وجود خویش را
- I deem not that good-minded one malicious: I (rather) suspect my own person.
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باشد او در من ببیند عیبها ** من نبینم در وجود خود شها 880
- Maybe, he sees in me faults I do not see in myself, O King.”
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هر کسی گر عیب خود دیدی ز پیش ** کی بدی فارغ خود از اصلاح خویش
- Any one saw his own faults before (seeing those of others) —how should he be unconcerned with correcting himself?
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غافلند این خلق از خود ای پدر ** لاجرم گویند عیب همدگر
- These people (of the world) take no heed of themselves, O father: consequently they blame one another.
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من نبینم روی خود را ای شمن ** من ببینم روی تو تو روی من
- O idolater (dualist), (if) I do not behold my own face (reality), I behold thy face and thou beholdest mine.
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آن کسی که او ببیند روی خویش ** نور او از نور خلقان است بیش
- He that beholds his own face (reality)—his light is greater than the light of the creatures (of God).
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گر بمیرد دید او باقی بود ** ز انکه دیدش دید خلاقی بود 885
- Though he die, his sight is everlasting, because his sight is the sight of the Creator.
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نور حسی نبود آن نوری که او ** روی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو
- That light by which he sensibly beholds his own face (reality) before him, is not the light of sense.
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گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگو ** آن چنان که گفت او از عیب تو
- The King said, “Now tell his (your fellow-servant's) faults, just as he spoke of yours,
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تا بدانم که تو غم خوار منی ** کدخدای ملکت و کار منی
- That I may know whether you are solicitous for me and a (good) house-steward of my property and business.”