صد هزاران جان خدا کرده پدید ** چه جوانمردی بود کان را ندید

God has brought to view myriads of lives (in return for the life given up): what generosity would there be (in him) that saw not those?

ور بدیدی کی به جان بخلش بدی ** بهر یک جان کی چنین غمگین شدی‏

And if he saw them, how should he grudge his life? How should he become so grieved for the sake of one life?

بر لب جو بخل آب آن را بود ** کاو ز جوی آب نابینا بود

On the river-bank, water is grudged by him (alone) that is blind to the stream of water.

گفت پیغمبر که هر که از یقین ** داند او پاداش خود در یوم دین‏ 895

The Prophet said, “Whosoever knows for sure his recompense on the day of Resurrection—

که یکی را ده عوض می‏آیدش ** هر زمان جودی دگرگون زایدش‏

That his compensation will be ten for one—at every moment a different (act of) munificence will issue from him.”

جود جمله از عوضها دیدن است ** پس عوض دیدن ضد ترسیدن است‏

All munificence is from seeing compensations; therefore seeing the compensation is opposed to fearing (and shrinking from the act of munificence).

بخل نادیدن بود اعواض را ** شاد دارد دید در خواض را

Miserliness consists in not seeing compensations: the prospect of pearls keeps the divers glad.

پس به عالم هیچ کس نبود بخیل ** ز انکه کس چیزی نبازد بی‏بدیل‏

Hence no one in the world is miserly, since no one hazards anything without (seeing) what is to be received in exchange.

پس سخا از چشم آمد نه ز دست ** دید دارد کار جز بینا نرست‏ 900

Generosity, then, comes from the eye, not from the hand: ’tis seeing that matters; none but the seer is saved.

عیب دیگر این که خود بین نیست او ** هست او در هستی خود عیب جو

“Another fault (of his is) that he is not self-conceited; he is anxious to find fault with his self-existence.