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1168-1177

  • شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود  ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود 
  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
  • ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست  ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست 
  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.
  • تو مشو غره به علمش عهد جو  ** علم چون قشرست و عهدش مغز او  1170
  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel.
  • در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد ارایت الذی ینهی عبدا اذا صلی 
  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’
  • وافیان را چون ببینی کرده سود  ** تو چو شیطانی شوی آنجا حسود 
  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.
  • هرکرا باشد مزاج و طبع سست  ** او نخواهد هیچ کس را تن‌درست 
  • Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.
  • گر نخواهی رشک ابلیسی بیا  ** از در دعوی به درگاه وفا 
  • If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.
  • چون وفاات نیست باری دم مزن  ** که سخن دعویست اغلب ما و من 
  • When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self-assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’
  • این سخن در سینه دخل مغزهاست  ** در خموشی مغز جان را صد نماست  1175
  • These words, (whilst they stay) in the breast, are an income consisting of (spiritual) kernels: in silence the spiritual kernel grows a hundredfold.
  • چون بیامد در زبان شد خرج مغز  ** خرج کم کن تا بماند مغز نغز 
  • When it (the word) comes on to the tongue, the kernel is expended: refrain from expending, in order that the goodly kernel may remain (with you).
  • مرد کم گوینده را فکرست زفت  ** قشر گفتن چون فزون شد مغز رفت 
  • The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.