- (Or as) children at play set up a shop, (but) it is of no use (to them) except as a pastime.
- کودکان سازند در بازی دکان ** سود نبود جز که تعبیر زبان
- Night falls, and he (the child who acted as shopkeeper comes home hungry: the (other) children are gone, and he is let alone.
- شب شود در خانه آید گرسنه ** کودکان رفته بمانده یک تنه
- This world is a playground, and death is the night: thou returnest with an empty purse, tired out. 2600
- این جهان بازیگه است و مرگ شب ** باز گردی کیسه خالی پر تعب
- The earnings of religion are love and inward rapture––capacity to receive the Light of God, O thou obstinate one!
- کسب دین عشق است و جذب اندرون ** قابلیت نور حق دان ای حرون
- This vile fleshly soul desires thee to earn that which passeth away: how long wilt thou earn what is vile? Let it go! Enough!
- کسب فانی خواهدت این نفس خس ** چند کسب خس کنی بگذار بس
- If the vile fleshly soul desire thee to earn what is noble, there is some trick and plot behind it.
- نفس خس گر جویدت کسب شریف ** حیله و مکری بود آن را ردیف
- How Iblís awakened Mu‘áwiya—may God be well-pleased with him!—saying, “Arise, it is time for prayer.”
- بیدار کردن ابلیس معاویه را که خیز وقت نماز است
- ’Tis related in Tradition that Mu‘áwiya was asleep in a nook of the palace.
- در خبر آمد که آن معاویه ** خفته بد در قصر در یک زاویه
- The palace-door was fastened from the inside, for he was fatigued by people's visits. 2605
- قصر را از اندرون در بسته بود ** کز زیارتهای مردم خسته بود
- Suddenly he was awakened by a man, (but) when he opened his eyes the man vanished.
- ناگهان مردی و را بیدار کرد ** چشم چون بگشاد پنهان گشت مرد
- He said (to himself), “No one had entrance to the palace: who is he that has shown such impudence and boldness?”
- گفت اندر قصر کس را ره نبود ** کیست کاین گستاخی و جرات نمود