زین خرد جاهل همی باید شدن ** دست در دیوانگی باید زدن‏

It behoves us to become ignorant of this (worldly) wisdom; (rather) must we clutch at madness.

هر چه بینی سود خود ز آن می‏گریز ** زهر نوش و آب حیوان را بریز

Always flee from whatever you deem profitable to your (lower) self: drink poison and spill the water of life.

هر که بستاند ترا دشنام ده ** سود و سرمایه به مفلس وام ده‏ 2330

Revile any one that praises you: lend (both) interest and capital to the destitute.

ایمنی بگذار و جای خوف باش ** بگذر از ناموس و رسوا باش و فاش‏

Let safety go, and dwell in the place of fear (danger): leave reputation behind and be disgraced and notorious.

آزمودم عقل دور اندیش را ** بعد از این دیوانه سازم خویش را

I have tried far-thinking (provident) intellect; henceforth I will make myself mad.

عذر گفتن دلقک با سید که چرا فاحشه را نکاح کرد

How Dalqak excused himself to the Sayyid-i Ajall (who asked him) why he had married a harlot.

گفت با دلقک شبی سید اجل ** قحبه‏ای را خواستی تو از عجل‏

One night the Sayyid-i Ajall said to Dalqak, “You have married a harlot in haste.

با من این را باز می‏بایست گفت ** تا یکی مستور کردیمیت جفت‏

You ought to have disclosed this (matter) to me, so that we might have made a chaste (woman) your wife.”

گفت نه مستور صالح خواستم ** قحبه گشتند و ز غم تن کاستم‏ 2335

Dalqak replied, “I have (already) married nine chaste and virtuous women: they became harlots, and I wasted away with grief.

خواستم این قحبه را بی‏معرفت ** تا ببینم چون شود این عاقبت‏

I married this harlot without (previous) acquaintance (with her), in order to see how this one (also) would turn out in the end.

عقل را من آزمودم هم بسی ** زین سپس جویم جنون را مغرسی‏

Often have I tried (sound) intelligence; henceforth I will seek a nursery for insanity.”

به حیلت در سخن آوردن سائل آن بزرگ را که خود را دیوانه ساخته بود

How an inquirer managed to draw into conversation an eminent (saintly) man who had feigned to be mad.