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1164-1173

  • Love hath a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred blandishments.
  • عشق را صد ناز و استکبار هست  ** عشق با صد ناز می‌آید به دست 
  • Since Love is loyal, it purchases (desires) him that is loyal: it does not look at a disloyal comrade. 1165
  • عشق چون وافیست وافی می‌خرد  ** در حریف بی‌وفا می‌ننگرد 
  • Man resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant (with God): the root must be cherished with all one's might.
  • چون درختست آدمی و بیخ عهد  ** بیخ را تیمار می‌باید به جهد 
  • A corrupt (infirm) covenant is a rotten root and is cut off (deprived) of fruit and grace.
  • عهد فاسد بیخ پوسیده بود  ** وز ثمار و لطف ببریده بود 
  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
  • شاخ و برگ نخل گر چه سبز بود  ** با فساد بیخ سبزی نیست سود 
  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.
  • ور ندارد برگ سبز و بیخ هست  ** عاقبت بیرون کند صد برگ دست 
  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel. 1170
  • تو مشو غره به علمش عهد جو  ** علم چون قشرست و عهدش مغز او 
  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’
  • در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد ارایت الذی ینهی عبدا اذا صلی 
  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.
  • وافیان را چون ببینی کرده سود  ** تو چو شیطانی شوی آنجا حسود 
  • Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.
  • هرکرا باشد مزاج و طبع سست  ** او نخواهد هیچ کس را تن‌درست 
  • If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.
  • گر نخواهی رشک ابلیسی بیا  ** از در دعوی به درگاه وفا