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1398-1407

  • بیست مرده جنگ می‌کردی در آن ** کت همی‌دادند پند آن دیگران
  • You were fighting like twenty men (to prevail) in the matter concerning which those others were giving you good advice.
  • که صواب اینست و راه اینست و بس ** کی زند طعنه مرا جز هیچ‌کس
  • You said, “This is right and this is the only (approved) way: how should any one but a nobody (worthless person) rail at me?”
  • کی چنین گوید کسی کو مکر هست ** چون چنین جنگد کسی کو بی‌رهست 1400
  • How should one who is compelled speak thus? How should one who has lost his way wrangle like this?
  • هر چه نفست خواست داری اختیار ** هر چه عقلت خواست آری اضطرار
  • Whatever your fleshly soul desires, you have free-will (in regard to that); whatever your reason desires, you plead necessity (as an excuse for rejecting it).
  • داند او کو نیک‌بخت و محرمست ** زیرکی ز ابلیس و عشق از آدمست
  • He that is blessed and familiar (with spiritual mysteries) knows that intelligence is of Iblís, while love is of Adam.
  • زیرکی سباحی آمد در بحار ** کم رهد غرقست او پایان کار
  • Intelligence is (like) swimming in the seas: he (the swimmer) is not saved: he is drowned at the end of the business.
  • هل سباحت را رها کن کبر و کین ** نیست جیحون نیست جو دریاست این
  • Leave off swimming, let pride and enmity go: this is not a Jayhun (Oxus) or a (lesser) river, it is an ocean;
  • وانگهان دریای ژرف بی‌پناه ** در رباید هفت دریا را چو کاه 1405
  • And, moreover, (it is) the deep Ocean without refuge: it sweeps away the seven seas like straw.
  • عشق چون کشتی بود بهر خواص ** کم بود آفت بود اغلب خلاص
  • Love is as a ship for the elect: seldom is calamity (the result); for the most part it is deliverance.
  • زیرکی بفروش و حیرانی بخر ** زیرکی ظنست و حیرانی نظر
  • Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.