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  • آن زمان زاری کنند و افتقار  ** هم‌چو دزد و راه‌زن در زیر دار  4700
  • At that moment they cry piteously and make humble supplication, like robbers and brigands under the gibbet.
  • لیک گر در غیب گردی مستوی  ** مالک دارین و شحنه‌ی خود توی 
  • But if you become upright in (your faith in) the Unseen, you are owner of the two worlds and a magistrate (exercising sovereign authority) over yourself.
  • شحنگی و پادشاهی مقیم  ** نه دو روزه و مستعارست و سقیم 
  • The abiding (spiritual) magistracy and kingship is not (something) taken on loan for two days and ailing (perishable).
  • رستی از بیگار و کار خود کنی  ** هم تو شاه و هم تو طبل خود زنی 
  • (Possessing that) you are delivered from strife and can act for yourself: you are king and at the same time beating your own drum.
  • چون گلو تنگ آورد بر ما جهان  ** خاک خوردی کاشکی حلق و دهان 
  • When the World squeezes our throats tightly, would that our gullets and mouths had eaten (only) earth!
  • این دهان خود خاک‌خواری آمدست  ** لیک خاکی را که آن رنگین شدست  4705
  • This mouth, indeed, has (always) been an eater of earth; but an earth that has been coloured.
  • این کباب و این شراب و این شکر  ** خاک رنگینست و نقشین ای پسر 
  • This roast-meat and this wine and this sugar are (merely) coloured and painted earth, O son.
  • چونک خوردی و شد آن لحم و پوست  ** رنگ لحمش داد و این هم خاک کوست 
  • When you have eaten or drunk (them) and they have become flesh and skin, He gives them the colour of flesh, but they are still the earth of (His) street.
  • هم ز خاکی بخیه بر گل می‌زند  ** جمله را هم باز خاکی می‌کند 
  • ’Tis from a bit of earth that He stitches the (body of) clay, and then makes the whole (fabric) a bit of earth again.
  • هندو و قفچاق و رومی و حبش  ** جمله یک رنگ‌اند اندر گور خوش 
  • Hindús and Qifcháq (Turks) and Greeks and Abyssinians— all have quite the same colour in the grave.