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در نعیم فانی مال و جسد ** چون همی‌سوزند عامه از حسد
- How do the vulgar burn with envy for the fleeting happiness of riches and (pleasures of) the body!
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پادشاهان بین که لشکر می‌کشند ** از حسد خویشان خود را می‌کشند
- Behold the kings, how they lead armies (to battle) and slay their own kinsmen because of envy.
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عاشقان لعبتان پر قذر ** کرده قصد خون و جان همدگر
- The lovers of filthy dolls (darlings) have sought each other's blood and life.
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ویس و رامین خسرو و شیرین بخوان ** که چه کردند از حسد آن ابلهان
- Read Wís and Rámín and Khusraw and Shírín: (you will see) what those fools did because of envy.
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که فنا شد عاشق و معشوق نیز ** هم نه چیزند و هواشان هم نه چیز 1205
- (You will see) that the lover perished and the beloved too: they are naught and their passion also is naught.
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پاک الهی که عدم بر هم زند ** مر عدم را بر عدم عاشق کند
- Holy is the God who brings non-existence into collision with itself and makes non-existence to be in love with non-existence.
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در دل نه‌دل حسدها سر کند ** نیست را هست این چنین مضطر کند
- Envies arise in the heart that is no (real) heart: thus doth Being subject not being to compulsion.
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این زنانی کز همه مشفق‌تراند ** از حسد دو ضره خود را می‌خورند
- These women, who are kinder than all (other creatures)—(even amongst them) two fellow-wives devour each other from envy,
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تا که مردانی که خود سنگین‌دلند ** از حسد تا در کدامین منزلند
- So that (you may judge) in what degree of envy are the men who indeed are stony-hearted.
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گر نکردی شرع افسونی لطیف ** بر دریدی هر کسی جسم حریف 1210
- If the Law had not exercised a gracious spell (over them), every one would have torn the body of his rival to pieces.