Thou hast learned a trade to earn a livelihood for the body: (now) set thy hand to a religious (spiritual) trade.
در جهان پوشیده گشتی و غنی ** چون برون آیی از اینجا چون کنی
In this world thou hast become clothed and rich: when thou comest forth from here, how wilt thou do?
پیشهای آموز کاندر آخرت ** اندر آید دخل کسب مغفرت
Learn such a trade that hereafter the earning of God’s forgiveness may come in as revenue (to thee).
آن جهان شهری است پر بازار و کسب ** تا نپنداری که کسب اینجاست حسب2595
Yonder world is a city full of trafficking and earning: think not that the earnings here (in this world) are a sufficiency.
حق تعالی گفت کاین کسب جهان ** پیش آن کسب است لعب کودکان
The high God hath said that beside those (the next world’s) earnings these earnings in the (present) world are (but) children’s play––
همچو آن طفلی که بر طفلی تند ** شکل صحبت کن مساسی میکند
As a child that embraces another child modo coitum facientis contactum facit; [As a child that embraces another child touches (the other) like an (adult) copulater.]
کودکان سازند در بازی دکان ** سود نبود جز که تعبیر زبان
(Or as) children at play set up a shop, (but) it is of no use (to them) except as a pastime.
شب شود در خانه آید گرسنه ** کودکان رفته بمانده یک تنه
Night falls, and he (the child who acted as shopkeeper comes home hungry: the (other) children are gone, and he is let alone.
این جهان بازیگه است و مرگ شب ** باز گردی کیسه خالی پر تعب2600
This world is a playground, and death is the night: thou returnest with an empty purse, tired out.