هر خسی دعوی داودی کند ** هر که بی تمییز کف در وی زند
Every worthless fellow pretends to be (a) David; every one who lacks discernment lays hold of him (attaches himself to him):
از صیادی بشنود آواز طیر ** مرغ ابله می‌کند آن سوی سیر2565
He hears the bird’s note from a fowler and, (like a) foolish bird, he keeps going in that direction.
نقد را از نقل نشناسد غویست ** هین ازو بگریز اگر چه معنویست
‘He dos not distinguish fact from fiction: he is misguided. Come, flee from him, even if he is spiritual (in appearance).
رسته و بر بسته پیش او یکیست ** گر یقین دعوی کند او در شکیست
What has grown (genuinely) and what has been tied on (artificially) is (all) one to him: though he may claim (to possess) intuitive certainty, he is (really) in a (great) doubt.
این چنین کس گر ذکی مطلقست ** چونش این تمییز نبود احمقست
If such a one is absolutely keen-witted, (still), when he has not this (power of) discernment, he is a fool.
هین ازو بگریز چون آهو ز شیر ** سوی او مشتاق ای دانا دلیر
Hark, flee from him as the deer from the lion: do not hasten boldly towards him, O wise man!
گریختن عیسی علیه السلام فراز کوه از احمقان
How Jesus, on whom be peace, fled to the top of a mountain (to escape) from the fools.
عیسی مریم به کوهی می‌گریخت ** شیرگویی خون او می‌خواست ریخت2570
Jesus, son of Mary, was fleeing to a mountain: you would say that a lion wished to shed his blood.
آن یکی در پی دوید و گفت خیر ** در پیت کس نیست چه گریزی چو طیر
A certain man ran after him and said, “(Is it) well (with thee)? There is no one in pursuit of thee: why dost thou flee, like a bird?”
با شتاب او آنچنان می‌تاخت جفت ** کز شتاب خود جواب او نگفت
(But) he (Jesus) still kept running with haste so (quickly) that on account of his haste he did not answer him.
یک دو میدان در پی عیسی براند ** پس بجد جد عیسی را بخواند
He pushed on in pursuit of Jesus for the distance of one or two fields, and then invoked Jesus with the utmost earnestness,