Quatrain 8

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Quatrain 8

Strive so that the wise and clear-sighted count you as one of their own, yet the world of hidden secrets keeps no record of you. If you do good, they will call you an angel; if you give in to human appetites, they will call you merely human.
Explanation: The poem contrasts the angelic and the merely human as two directions a person can choose.

Original · Persian

رباعی شمارهٔ ۸

میکوش که تا ز اهل نظر خوانندت وز عالم راز بی‌خبر خوانندت
گر خیر کنی فرشته خوانند ترا ور میل بشر کنی بشر خوانندت