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  • If I become occupied with a difficulty (difficult question) and the answer (explanation), how shall I be able to give water to the thirsty?
  • گر شوم مشغول اشکال و جواب ** تشنگان را کی توانم داد آب‌‌
  • If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience: patience is the key to joy.
  • گر تو اشکالی به کلی و حرج ** صبر کن الصبر مفتاح الفرج‌‌
  • Abstain from (distracting) thoughts, abstain: thought is (like) the lion and the wild ass, and (men's) hearts are the thickets (which they haunt).
  • احتما کن احتما ز اندیشه‌‌ها ** فکر شیر و گور و دلها بیشه‌‌ها
  • Acts of abstinence are superior to medicines, because scratching is an increase (aggravation) of the itch. 2910
  • احتماها بر دواها سرور است ** ز آن که خاریدن فزونی گر است‌‌
  • Assuredly abstinence is the first principle of medicine: abstain, and behold the strength of thy spirit.
  • احتما اصل دوا آمد یقین ** احتما کن قوت جان را ببین‌‌
  • Receive these words, like the (open) ear, that I may make for you an earring of gold:
  • قابل این گفته‌‌ها شو گوش‌‌وار ** تا که از زر سازمت من گوشوار
  • (Then) you will become a ring in the ear of (devoted to) the Moon that works in gold, you will ascend to the moon and the Pleiades.
  • حلقه در گوش مه زرگر شوی ** تا به ماه و تا ثریا بر شوی‌‌
  • First, hear (and learn) that the diverse created beings are spiritually different, to yá (Y) from alif (A).
  • اولا بشنو که خلق مختلف ** مختلف جانند از یا تا الف‌‌
  • Amongst the various letters there is a confusion and uncertainty, though from one point of view they are (all) one from head (beginning) to foot (end). 2915
  • در حروف مختلف شور و شکی است ** گر چه از یک رو ز سر تا پا یکی است‌‌
  • From one aspect they are opposites, and from one aspect they are unified; from one aspect they are jest, and from one aspect they are earnest.
  • از یکی رو ضد و یک رو متحد ** از یکی رو هزل و از یک روی جد