وان هوای نفس غالب بر عدو ** نفس جنس اسفل آمد شد بدو
While in the enemy (of God) the carnal soul's concupiscence is predominant: the carnal soul is homogeneous with the lowest (of the low) and goes to it.
بود قبطی جنس فرعون ذمیم ** بود سبطی جنس موسی کلیم2705
The Egyptian was a congener of the reprobate Pharaoh; the Israelite was a congener of Moses, the Kalím.
بود هامان جنس‌تر فرعون را ** برگزیدش برد بر صدر سرا
Hámán was more congenial (than any one else) to Pharaoh: he (Pharaoh) chose him out and brought him to the high-seat in the palace.
لاجرم از صدر تا قعرش کشید ** که ز جنس دوزخ‌اند آن دو پلید
Inevitably he (Hámán) dragged him (Pharaoh) from the high-seat to the lowest depth, for those two unclean ones are homogenous with Hell.
هر دو سوزنده چو ذوزخ ضد نور ** هر دو چون دوزخ ز نور دل نفور
Both, like Hell, are burning and contrary to light: both, like Hell, are exceedingly averse to the light of the heart;
زانک دوزخ گوید ای مومن تو زود ** برگذر که نورت آتش را ربود
For Hell says, “O true believer, pass by quickly, since thy light hath taken away (extinguished) the Fire.
بگذر اى مومن كه نورت مىكشد ** آتشم را چون كه دامن مىكشد2710
Pass, O true believer, for thy light, when it sweeps by’, quenches my fire.”
می‌رمد آن دوزخی از نور هم ** زانک طبع دوزخستش ای صنم
The man destined for Hell, also, is recoiling from the light, because he hath the nature of Hell, O worshipful one.
دوزخ از مومن گریزد آنچنان ** که گریزد مومن از دوزخ به جان
Hell flees from the true believer just as the true believer flees with (all) his soul from Hell,
زانک جنس نار نبود نور او ** ضد نار آمد حقیقت نورجو
Because his light is not homogeneous with the Fire: the seeker of the light is in reality the contrary of the Fire