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  • Three or four hairs on the chin as a notice are better than triginta lateres circa culum.” [Three or four hairs on the chin as a notice are better than thirty bricks around the buttocks.”]
  • بر زنخ سه چار مو بهر نمون  ** بهتر از سی خشت گرداگرد کون 
  • One atom of the shade (protection) of (Divine) favour is better than a thousand endeavours of the devout pietist,
  • ذره‌ای سایه‌ی عنایت بهترست  ** از هزاران کوشش طاعت‌پرست 
  • Because the Devil will remove the bricks of piety: (even) if there are two hundred bricks he will make a way for himself. 3870
  • زانک شیطان خشت طاعت بر کند  ** گر دو صد خشتست خود را ره کند 
  • If the bricks are numerous, (yet) they are laid by you, (while) those two or three hairs are a gift from Yonder.
  • خشت اگر پرست بنهاده‌ی توست  ** آن دو سه مو از عطای آن سوست 
  • In reality each one of those (hairs) is (firm) as a mountain, for it is a safe conduct bestowed by an Emperor.
  • در حقیقت هر یکی مو زان کهیست  ** کان امان‌نامه‌ی صله‌ی شاهنشهیست 
  • If you put a hundred locks on a door, some reckless fellow may remove them all;
  • تو اگر صد قفل بنهی بر دری  ** بر کند آن جمله را خیره‌سری 
  • (But) if a police magistrate put a wax seal (on it), at (the sight of) that (even) the hearts of doughty champions will quail.
  • شحنه‌ای از موم اگر مهری نهد  ** پهلوانان را از آن دل بشکهد 
  • Those two or three hair-threads of (Divine) favour form a barrier (strong) as a mountain (against evil), like majesty of aspect in the faces (of potentates). 3875
  • آن دو سه تار عنایت هم‌چو کوه  ** سد شد چون فر سیما در وجوه 
  • Do not neglect (to lay) the bricks, O man of goodly nature; but at the same time do not sleep (as though you were) safe from the wicked Devil.
  • خشت را مگذار ای نیکوسرشت  ** لیک هم آمن مخسپ از دیو زشت 
  • Go and get two hairs of that (Divine) grace, and then sleep safe (sound) and have no anxiety.
  • رو دو تا مو زان کرم با دست آر  ** وانگهان آمن بخسپ و غم مدار