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  • ور تو در کشتی روی بر یم روان ** ساحل یم را همی بینی دوان 2370
  • And if thou embark in a ship moving on the sea, thou deemest the seashore to be running (along).
  • گر تو باشی تنگ‌دل از ملحمه ** تنگ بینی جمله دنیا را همه
  • If thou art narrow (oppressed) at heart from (being engaged in) combat, thou deemest the whole atmosphere of the world to be narrow;
  • ور تو خوش باشی به کام دوستان ** این جهان بنمایدت چون گلستان
  • And if thou art happy as thy friends would desire, this world seems to thee like a garden of roses.
  • ای بسا کس رفته تا شام و عراق ** او ندیده هیچ جز کفر و نفاق
  • How many a one has gone as far as Syria and ‘Iráq and has seen nothing but unbelief and hypocrisy;
  • وی بسا کس رفته تا هند و هری ** او ندیده جز مگر بیع و شری
  • And how many a one has gone as far as India and Hirá (Herát) and seen nothing but selling and buying;
  • وی بسا کس رفته ترکستان و چین ** او ندیده هیچ جز مکر و کمین 2375
  • And how many a one has gone as far as Turkistán and China and seen nothing but deceit and hidden guile!
  • چون ندارد مدرکی جز رنگ و بو ** جمله‌ی اقلیمها را گو بجو
  • Since he has no object of perception save colour and perfume (external phenomena), let him seek (through) all the climes, (he will see nothing spiritual).
  • گاو در بغداد آید ناگهان ** بگذرد او زین سران تا آن سران
  • (If) a cow come suddenly into Baghdád and pass from this side (of the city) to that (farther) side,
  • از همه عیش و خوشیها و مزه ** او نبیند جز که قشر خربزه
  • Of all (its) pleasures and joys and delights she will see nothing but the rind of a water-melon.
  • که بود افتاده بر ره یا حشیش ** لایق سیران گاوی یا خریش
  • (If) straw or hay has fallen on the road, (it is) suitable to his (such a one's) bovine or asinine disposition.