هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود

هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود 1180

Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous.

چونک در عهد خدا کردی وفا ** از کرم عهدت نگه دارد خدا

When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.

از وفای حق تو بسته دیده‌ای ** اذکروا اذکرکم نشنیده‌ای

You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.

گوش نه اوفوا به عهدی گوش‌دار ** تا که اوفی عهدکم آید ز یار

Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.

عهد و قرض ما چه باشد ای حزین ** هم‌چو دانه‌ی خشک کشتن در زمین

What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.

نه زمین را زان فروغ و لمتری ** نه خداوند زمین را توانگری 1185

From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth.

جز اشارت که ازین می‌بایدم ** که تو دادی اصل این را از عدم

(’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof Thou didst create from non-existence.

خوردم و دانه بیاوردم نشان ** که ازین نعمت به سوی ما کشان

I ate, and (now) I bring the seed as a token, begging Thee to send to us such bounty (as before).’

پس دعای خشک هل ای نیک‌بخت ** که فشاند دانه می‌خواهد درخت

Abandon, then, the dry (verbal) prayer, O fortunate one; for the tree demands (presupposes) the scattering of seed.

گر نداری دانه ایزد زان دعا ** بخشدت نخلی که نعم ما سعی

(But) if you have no seed, on account of that prayer God will bestow on you a palm-tree, saying, ‘How well did he labour!’