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  • خاک را دادیم سبزی و نوی  ** تا ز تبدیل فقیر آگه شوی 
  • We have given greenness and freshness to the earth, that thou mayst become acquainted with the (spiritual) transmutation of the dervish.”
  • با تو گویند این جبال راسیات  ** وصف حال عاشقان اندر ثبات 
  • These firm-set mountains describe (represent) to thee the state of lovers in steadfastness,
  • گرچه آن معنیست و این نقش ای پسر  ** تا به فهم تو کند نزدیک‌تر  2745
  • Although that (state) is a reality, while this (description) is (only) an image, O son, (which is employed) in order that he (who offers it) may bring it nearer to thy understanding.
  • غصه را با خار تشبیهی کنند  ** آن نباشد لیک تنبیهی کنند 
  • They liken anguish to thorns; it is not that (in reality), but they do so as a means of arousing (thy) attention.
  • آن دل قاسی که سنگش خواندند  ** نامناسب بد مثالی راندند 
  • When they called a hard heart “stony,” that was (really) inappropriate, (but) they made it serve as a similitude.
  • در تصور در نیاید عین آن  ** عیب بر تصویر نه نفیش مدان 
  • The archetype of that (object of comparison) is inconceivable: put the blame on thy conceptual faculty, and do not regard it (the archetype) as negated (nonexistent).
  • رفتن این شیخ در خانه‌ی امیری بهر کدیه روزی چهار بار به زنبیل به اشارت غیب و عتاب کردن امیر او را بدان وقاحت و عذر گفتن او امیر را 
  • How the Shaykh, in obedience to the intimation from the Unseen, went with his basket four times in one day to the house of a certain Amír for the purpose of begging; and how the Amír rebuked him for his impudence, and how he excused himself to the Amír.
  • شیخ روزی چار کرت چون فقیر  ** بهر کدیه رفت در قصر امیر 
  • One day the Shaykh went four times to the palace of an Amír, in order to beg like a dervish,
  • در کفش زنبیل و شی لله زنان  ** خالق جان می‌بجوید تای نان  2750
  • (With) a basket in his hand, crying, “Something for God's sake! The Creator of the soul is seeking a piece of bread.”
  • نعلهای بازگونه‌ست ای پسر  ** عقل کلی را کند هم خیره‌سر 
  • ’Tis preposterous, O son: it makes even Universal Reason giddy-headed (astounded).
  • چون امیرش دید گفتش ای وقیح  ** گویمت چیزی منه نامم شحیح 
  • When the Amír saw him, he said to him, “O impudent man, I will tell you something, (but) do not fasten on me the name of niggard.