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عشق چون دعوی جفا دیدن گواه ** چون گواهت نیست شد دعوی تباه
- Love is like the lawsuit; to suffer harsh treatment is (like) the evidence: when you have no evidence, the lawsuit is lost.
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چون گواهت خواهد این قاضی مرنج ** بوسه ده بر مار تا یابی تو گنج 4010
- Do not be aggrieved when this Judge demands your evidence: kiss the snake in order that you may gain the treasure.
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آن جفا با تو نباشد ای پسر ** بلک با وصف بدی اندر تو در
- That harshness is not towards you, O son; nay, towards the evil qualities within you.
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بر نمد چوبی که آن را مرد زد ** بر نمد آن را نزد بر گرد زد
- The blows of the stick with which a man beats a rug he inflicts, not on the rug, but on the dust (in the rug).
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گر بزد مر اسپ را آن کینه کش ** آن نزد بر اسپ زد بر سکسکش
- If that vindictive fellow lashes the horse, he directs the blows, not at the horse, but at its stumbling,
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تا ز سکسک وا رهد خوش‌پی شود ** شیره را زندان کنی تا می‌شود
- In order that it may be delivered from (the vice of) stumbling and may move well: you imprison must (in the vat) in order that it may become wine.
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گفت چندان آن یتیمک را زدی ** چون نترسیدی ز قهر ایزدی 4015
- He (some one) said, “Thou hast struck that little orphan so many blows: how wert not thou afraid of the Divine wrath?”
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گفت او را کی زدم ای جان و دوست ** من بر آن دیوی زدم کو اندروست
- He (the striker) said, “O (dear) soul and friend, when did I strike him? I struck at the devil that is in him,”
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مادر ار گوید ترا مرگ تو باد ** مرگ آن خو خواهد و مرگ فساد
- If your mother say to you, “Mayst thou die!” she wishes the death of that (evil) nature (of yours) and the death of iniquity.
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آن گروهی کز ادب بگریختند ** آب مردی و آب مردان ریختند
- The folk who fled from correction dishonoured’ their (own) manhood and (true) men.