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  • بعد یک‌دم زهر بر جانش فتد ** زهر در جانش کند داد و ستد
  • After one moment the poison falls on his spirit the poison exercises (complete) sway over his spirit.
  • گر نذاری زهری‌اش را اعتقاد ** کو چه زهر آمد نگر در قوم عاد 2750
  • If you have not firm belief in its being poisonous (and do not know) what (a deadly) poison it is, look at the people of ‘Ád.
  • چونک شاهی دست یابد بر شهی ** بکشدش یا باز دارد در چهی
  • When one king gains the upper hand (prevails) over another. king, he kills him or confines him in a dungeon;
  • ور بیابد خسته‌ی افتاده را ** مرهمش سازد شه و بدهد عطا
  • But if he find a fallen wounded man, the king will make a plaster for him and bestow gifts on him.
  • گر نه زهرست آن تکبر پس چرا ** کشت شه را بی‌گناه و بی‌خطا
  • If that pride is not poison, then why did he kill the (vanquished) king without (his having committed any) crime or offence?
  • وین دگر را بی ز خدمت چون نواخت ** زین دو جنبش زهر را شاید شناخت
  • And how did he treat this other (helpless) man (so) kindly without (his having performed any) service? From these two actions you may recognise (the poisonous nature of) pride.
  • راه‌زن هرگز گدایی را نزد ** گرگ گرگ مرده را هرگز گزد 2755
  • No highwayman ever attacked a beggar: does a wolf ever bite a dead wolf?
  • خضر کشتی را برای آن شکست ** تا تواند کشتی از فجار رست
  • Khizr made a breach in the boat in order that the boat might be saved from the wicked.
  • چون شکسته می‌رهد اشکسته شو ** امن در فقرست اندر فقر رو
  • Since the broken (contrite) one will be saved, be thou broken (contrite). Safety lies in poverty enter into poverty
  • آن کهی کو داشت از کان نقد چند ** گشت پاره پاره از زخم کلند
  • The mountain that possessed some cash in its mine was riven to pieces by the strokes of the pick-axe.