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  • ای زبون‌گیر زبونان این بدان  ** دست هم بالای دستست ای جوان 
  • O thou who regardest the weak as weak (and at thy mercy), know this, (that) there is a hand above thy hand, O youth.
  • تو زبونی و زبون‌گیر ای عجب  ** هم تو صید و صیدگیر اندر طلب  750
  • Thou art weak (thyself) and thou regardest (others) as weak. Oh, wonderful! Thou art at once the prey and the hunter in pursuit (of the prey).
  • بین ایدی خلفهم سدا مباش  ** که نبینی خصم را وآن خصم فاش 
  • Be not (one of those described in the Verse) before and behind them (We will set) a barrier, so that thou canst not see the enemy, though the enemy is manifest.
  • حرص صیادی ز صیدی مغفلست  ** دلبریی می‌کند او بی‌دلست 
  • The greed of hunting makes (one) oblivious of being a prey: he (the hunter) tries to win hearts (though) he has lost his own.
  • تو کم از مرغی مباش اندر نشید  ** بین ایدی خلف عصفوری بدید 
  • Be not thou inferior to a bird in (thy) seeking: (even) a sparrow sees (what is) before and behind.
  • چون به نزد دانه آید پیش و پس  ** چند گرداند سر و رو آن نفس 
  • When it approaches the grain (bait), at that moment it turns its head and face several times to front and rear,
  • کای عجب پیش و پسم صیاد هست  ** تا کشم از بیم او زین لقمه دست  755
  • (As though to say), ‘Oh, I wonder whether there is a fowler in front of me or behind, so that for fear of him I should abstain from this food.’
  • تو ببین پس قصه‌ی فجار را  ** پیش بنگر مرگ یار و جار را 
  • Do thou see behind (thee) the story of (what happened to) the wicked; see before (thee) the death of (many a) friend and neighbour,
  • که هلاکت دادشان بی‌آلتی  ** او قرین تست در هر حالتی 
  • Whom He (God) destroyed without (using) any instrument: He is close to thee in every circumstance.
  • حق شکنجه کرد و گرز و دست نیست  ** پس بدان بی‌دست حق داورکنیست 
  • God inflicted torment (on them), and there is no mace or hand (employed): know, then, that God is one who deals justice (inflicts chastisement) without hands.