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  • گرچه مؤمن را سقر ندهد ضرر  ** لیک هم بهتر بود زانجا گذر 
  • Although Hell-fire does no injury to the true believer, yet ’tis still better to pass on from that place (and leave it behind).
  • گرچه دوزخ دور دارد زو نکال  ** لیک جنت به ورا فی کل حال 
  • Although Hell keeps its torment far from him, yet in any case Paradise is better for him.
  • الحذر ای ناقصان زین گلرخی  ** که بگاه صحبت آمد دوزخی 
  • O ye deficient (in understanding), beware of this rose-cheeked one who at the time of intercourse becomes (like) a hell.
  • حکایت غلام هندو کی به خداوندزاده‌ی خود پنهان هوای آورده بود چون دختر را با مهتر زاده‌ای عقد کردند غلام خبر یافت رنجور شد و می‌گداخت و هیچ طبیب علت او را در نمی‌یافت و او را زهره‌ی گفتن نه 
  • Story of the Hindú slave who had secretly fallen in love with his master's daughter. On learning that the girl was betrothed to the son of a nobleman, the slave sickened and began to waste away. No physician could diagnose his malady, and he (the slave) durst not tell.
  • خواجه‌ای را بود هندو بنده‌ای  ** پروریده کرده او را زنده‌ای 
  • A certain Khwája had a Hindú slave whom he had educated and enlivened (with knowledge).
  • علم و آدابش تمام آموخته  ** در دلش شمع هنر افروخته  250
  • He had taught him science and all polite accomplishments; he had lighted the candle of erudition in his heart.
  • پروریدش از طفولیت به ناز  ** در کنار لطف آن اکرام‌ساز 
  • That beneficent man had brought him up indulgently from childhood in the lap of kindness.
  • بود هم این خواجه را خوش دختری  ** سیم‌اندامی گشی خوش‌گوهری 
  • This Khwája had also a fair daughter, silver-limbed, lovely, and of excellent disposition.
  • چون مراهق گشت دختر طالبان  ** بذل می‌کردند کابین گران 
  • When the girl had almost reached womanhood, the suitors (for her hand) were offering heavy dowries,
  • می‌رسیدش از سوی هر مهتری  ** بهر دختر دم به دم خوزه‌گری 
  • And there was continually coming to him (the Khwája) from every nobleman a wooer to ask for the girl (in marriage).
  • گفت خواجه مال را نبود ثبات  ** روز آید شب رود اندر جهات  255
  • The Khwája said (to himself), “Wealth has no permanence: it comes in the morning, and at night it goes in all directions (is scattered to the winds).