That fodder is bitter (in the end), for this Butcher gave it: He set up a pair of scales for our flesh.
آن علف تلخست کین قصاب داد ** بهر لحم ما ترازویی نهاد
Go, eat the fodder of wisdom which God hath given (us) disinterestedly from pure bounty.
رو ز حکمت خور علف کان را خدا ** بی غرض دادست از محض عطا
O slave (to your lusts), you have understood bread, not wisdom, (to be meant) in that (text) which God hath spoken unto you—Eat ye of His provision.3745
فهم نان کردی نه حکمت ای رهی ** زانچ حق گفتت کلوا من رزقه
God's provision in the (present) stage (of your existence) is wisdom that will not choke you at the last (in the world hereafter).
رزق حق حکمت بود در مرتبت ** کان گلوگیرت نباشد عاقبت
(If) you have closed this (bodily) mouth, another mouth is opened, which becomes an eater of the morsels of (spiritual) mysteries.
این دهان بستی دهانی باز شد ** کو خورنده‌ی لقمه‌های راز شد
If you cut off your body from the Devil's milk, by (thus) weaning it you will enjoy much felicity.
گر ز شیر دیو تن را وابری ** در فطام اوبسی نعمت خوردی
I have given a half-raw (imperfect) explanation of it, (like) the Turcomans' ill-boiled meat: hear (it) in full from the Sage of Ghazna.
ترک‌جوشش شرح کردم نیم‌خام ** از حکیم غزنوی بشنو تمام
In the Iláhí-náma that Sage of the Unseen and Glory of them that know (God) explains this (matter).3750
در الهی‌نامه گوید شرح این ** آن حکیم غیب و فخرالعارفین
(He says), “Eat (feel) sorrow, and do not eat the bread of those who increase (your) sorrow (hereafter), for the wise man eats sorrow, the child (eats) sugar (rejoices).”