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  • چون نباشی راست می‌دان که چپی  ** هست پیدا نعره‌ی شیر و کپی 
  • When you are not “right,” know that you are “left”; the cries of a lion and an ape are distinct (from one another).
  • آنک گل را شاهد و خوش‌بو کند  ** هر چپی را راست فضل او کند 
  • He (God) who makes the rose lovely and sweet-scented—His bounty makes every “left” to be “right.”
  • هر شمالی را یمینی او دهد  ** بحر را ماء معینی او دهد 
  • He bestows “rightness” on every one belonging to the “left” He bestows a(fresh) running water on the (salt) sea.
  • گر چپی با حضرت او راست باش  ** تا ببینی دست‌برد لطفهاش  2160
  • If you are “left,” be “right” (in perfect harmony) with His Lordship, that you may see His mercies prevail (over His wrath).
  • تو روا داری که این نامه‌ی مهین  ** بگذرد از چپ در آید در یمین 
  • Do you think it allowable that this vile scroll (of yours) should pass from the left hand and come into the right?
  • این چنین نامه که پرظلم و جفاست  ** کی بود خود درخور اندر دست راست 
  • How indeed should a scroll like this, which is full of iniquity and injury, be fit (to place) in the right hand?
  • در بیان کسی کی سخنی گوید کی حال او مناسب آن سخن و آن دعوی نباشد چنان که کفره و لن سالتهم من خلق السموات والارض لیقولن الله خدمت بت سنگین کردن و جان و زر فدای او کردن چه مناسب باشد با جانی کی داند کی خالق سموات و ارض و خلایق الهیست سمیعی بصیری حاضری مراقبی مستولی غیوری الی آخره 
  • Explaining the case of a person who makes a statement when his behaviour is not consistent with that statement and profession, like the infidels (of whom God hath said): “and if thou ask them who created the heavens and the earth they will surely say, ‘Allah.’” How is the worship of a stone idol and the sacrifice of life and wealth for its sake appropriate to a soul which knows that the creator of heaven and earth and (all) created beings is a God, all-hearing, all-seeing, omnipresent, all-observing, all dominating, jealous, etc.?
  • زاهدی را یک زنی بد بس غیور  ** هم بد او را یک کنیزک هم‌چو حور 
  • A certain ascetic had a very jealous wife: he also had a maid-servant (beautiful) as a houri.
  • زان ز غیرت پاس شوهر داشتی  ** با کنیزک خلوتش نگذاشتی 
  • The wife used to watch her husband jealously and not let him be alone with the maid.
  • مدتی زن شد مراقب هر دو را  ** تاکشان فرصت نیفتد در خلا  2165
  • For a long time the wife watched them both, lest an opportunity should occur for their being alone (together)—
  • تا در آمد حکم و تقدیر اله  ** عقل حارس خیره‌سر گشت و تباه 
  • Until the decree and fore-ordainment of God arrived: (then) the watchman, Reason, became giddy-headed and good-for-nothing.