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469-478

  • مکر کن در راه نیکو خدمتی  ** تا نبوت یابی اندر امتی 
  • Contrive, in the way of (by following the guidance of) one who serves (God) well, that you may gain the position of a prophet in a religious community.
  • مکر کن تا وا رهی از مکر خود  ** مکر کن تا فرد گردی از جسد  470
  • Contrive that you may be delivered from your own contrivance; contrive that you may become detached from the body.
  • مکر کن تا کمترین بنده شوی  ** در کمی رفتی خداونده شوی 
  • Contrive that you may become the meanest slave (of God): if you enter into (the state of) meanness (self-abasement), you will become lordly.
  • روبهی و خدمت ای گرگ کهن  ** هیچ بر قصد خداوندی مکن 
  • Never, O old wolf, practise foxiness and perform service with the purpose of (gaining) lordship;
  • لیک چون پروانه در آتش بتاز  ** کیسه‌ای زان بر مدوز و پاک باز 
  • But rush into the fire like a moth: do not hoard up that (service), play for love!
  • زور را بگذار و زاری را بگیر  ** رحم سوی زاری آید ای فقیر 
  • Renounce power and adopt piteous supplication: (the Divine) mercy comes towards piteous supplication, O dervish.
  • زاری مضطر تشنه معنویست  ** زاری سرد دروغ آن غویست  475
  • The piteous supplication of one sorely distressed and athirst is real; the piteous (but) cold supplication of falsehood is proper to the miscreant.
  • گریه‌ی اخوان یوسف حیلتست  ** که درونشان پر ز رشک و علتست 
  • The weeping of Joseph's brethren is a trick, for their hearts are full of envy and infirmity.
  • حکایت آن اعرابی کی سگ او از گرسنگی می‌مرد و انبان او پر نان و بر سگ نوحه می‌کرد و شعر می‌گفت و می‌گریست و سر و رو می‌زد و دریغش می‌آمد لقمه‌ای از انبان به سگ دادن 
  • Story of the Arab of the desert whose dog was dying of hunger, while his wallet was full of bread; he was lamenting over the dog and reciting poetry and sobbing and beating his head and face; and yet he grudged the dog a morsel from his wallet.
  • آن سگی می‌مرد و گریان آن عرب  ** اشک می‌بارید و می‌گفت ای کرب 
  • The dog was dying, and the Arab sobbing, shedding tears, and crying, “Oh, sorrow!”
  • سایلی بگذشت و گفت این گریه چیست  ** نوحه و زاری تو از بهر کیست 
  • A beggar passed by and asked, “What is this sobbing? For whom is thy mourning and lamentation?”