Mustafá (Mohammed), the Pole and the Emperor and the Sea of Purity, has told us truly,
راست فرمودست با ما مصطفی ** قطب و شاهنشاه و دریای صفا
That what the ignorant will see in the end the wise see from the first step.
کانچ جاهل دید خواهد عاقبت ** عاقلان بینند ز اول مرتبت
If matters are hidden and secret at the beginning, the wise man sees at first, while that obstinate one (sees) at last.
کارها ز آغاز اگر غیبست و سر ** عاقل اول دید و آخر آن مصر
The beginning thereof is concealed, and both the wise man and the ignorant will see the end in (the moment of its) manifestation;
اولش پوشیده باشد و آخر آن ** عاقل و جاهل ببیند در عیان
(But) if you, O contumacious one, do not see the hidden event (before it comes to pass)—when did the torrent sweep away your prudence?2200
گر نبینی واقعه‌ی غیب ای عنود ** حزم را سیلاب کی اندر ربود
What is prudence? To think ill of the world. He (the prudent man) at every moment will (expect to) see a sudden calamity.
حزم چه بود بدگمانی بر جهان ** دم بدم بیند بلای ناگهان
The ideas of the prudent man.
تصورات مرد حازم
’Tis as when a lion has suddenly come up and seized a man and dragged him into the jungle.
آنچنانک ناگهان شیری رسید ** مرد را بربود و در بیشه کشید
At (the moment of) that carrying off, what will he think of? Consider (this), and think of the same thing, O thou who art learned in the (Mohammedan) Religion.
او چه اندیشد در آن بردن ببین ** تو همان اندیش ای استاد دین
The lion, Destiny, is dragging into the jungles (of death) our souls which are preoccupied with (worldly) business and trades.
می‌کشد شیر قضا در بیشه‌ها ** جان ما مشغول کار و پیشه‌ها
That (case) is like (the fact) that the people (of this world) have fear of poverty, plunged (as they are) up to their throats in the briny water.2205
آنچنانک از فقر می‌ترسند خلق ** زیر آب شور رفته تا به حلق