- When lameness comes, the load is taken off: God hath said,It is no sin in the blind.
- بار بر گیرند چون آمد عرج ** گفت حق لیس علی الاعمی حرج
- I have become blind in regard to myself, seeing by (the grace of) God: therefore I am absolved from the small (obligation) and from the great.”
- سوی خود اعمی شدم از حق بصیر ** پس معافم از قلیل و از کثیر
- Thou braggest of thy dervishhood and selflessness, (thou utterest) the wailful cries of those intoxicated with God,
- لاف درویشی زنی و بی‌خودی ** های هوی مستیان ایزدی
- Saying, “I know not earth from heaven.” The (Divine) jealousy hath tried thee, tried thee (and found thee wanting).
- که زمین را من ندانم ز آسمان ** امتحانت کرد غیرت امتحان
- Thus hath the wind of thy ass-colt put thee to shame, thus hath it affirmed the existence of thy self-negation. 680
- باد خرکره‌ی چنین رسوات کرد ** هستی نفی ترا اثبات کرد
- In this wise doth God expose hypocrisy, in this wise doth He catch the quarry that has started away.
- این چنین رسوا کند حق شید را ** این چنین گیرد رمیده‌صید را
- There are hundreds of thousands of trials, O son, for any one who says, “I am the captain of the Gate.”
- صد هزاران امتحانست ای پسر ** هر که گوید من شدم سرهنگ در
- If the vulgar do not know him by (putting him to) the trial, (yet) the adepts of the Way will demand from him the token (of his veracity).
- گر نداند عامه او را ز امتحان ** پختگان راه جویندش نشان
- When a churl pretends to be a tailor, the king will throw down a piece of satin in front of him,
- چون کند دعوی خیاطی خسی ** افکند در پیش او شه اطلسی
- Saying, “Cut this into a wide undervest (baghaltáq)”: from (as the result of) the trial there appear two horns on him. 685
- که ببر این را بغلطاق فراخ ** ز امتحان پیدا شود او را دو شاخ