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اقرضوا الله قرض ده زین برگ تن ** تا بروید در عوض در دل چمن
- Lend unto God, give a loan of this leafage of the body, that in exchange a garden may grow in your heart.
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قرض ده کم کن ازین لقمه‌ی تنت ** تا نماید وجه لا عین رات
- Give a loan, diminish this food of your body, that there may appear the face (vision) of (that which) eye hath not seen.
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تن ز سرگین خویش چون خالی کند ** پر ز مشک و در اجلالی کند
- When the body empties itself of dung, He (God) fills it with musk and glorious pearls.
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زین پلیدی بدهد و پاکی برد ** از یطهرکم تن او بر خورد
- He (such a person) gives this filth and gets purity (in return): his body enjoys (what is signified by the words) He will purify you.
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دیو می‌ترساندت که هین و هین ** زین پشیمان گردی و گردی حزین 150
- The Devil frightens you, saying, “Hark and hark again! You will be sorry for this and will be saddened.
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گر گدازی زین هوسها تو بدن ** بس پشیمان و غمین خواهی شدن
- If you waste away your body in consequence of these idle whims, you will become very sorry and anxious.
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این بخور گرمست و داروی مزاج ** وآن بیاشام از پی نفع و علاج
- Eat this, it is hot and good for your health; and drink that for your benefit and as a cure,
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هم بدین نیت که این تن مرکبست ** آنچ خو کردست آنش اصوبست
- With the intention (of acting on the principle) that (since) this body is your riding-beast that to which it is accustomed is best for it.
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هین مگردان خو که پیش آید خلل ** در دماغ و دل بزاید صد علل
- Beware, do not alter your habit, else mischief will ensure and a hundred maladies will be produced in brain and heart.”
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این چنین تهدیدها آن دیو دون ** آرد و بر خلق خواند صد فسون 155
- Such menaces does the vile Devil employ, and he chants a hundred spells over the people.