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  • گر دلم خوی ستیری داشتی  ** روی خوبم جز صفا نفراشتی  665
  • If my heart had a modest disposition, my handsome face would produce naught but purity (goodness).
  • چون ندیدم زور و فرهنگ و صلاح  ** خصم دیدم زود بشکستم سلاح 
  • Since I did not see (in myself) strength and wisdom and righteousness, I saw the adversary and at once broke my weapons,
  • تا نگردد تیغ من او را کمال  ** تا نگردد خنجرم بر من وبال 
  • Lest my sword should become useful to him; lest my dagger should become hurtful to me.
  • می‌گریزم تا رگم جنبان بود  ** کی فرار از خویشتن آسان بود 
  • I will continue to flee as long as my veins are running, (but) how should it be easy to escape from one's self?
  • آنک از غیری بود او را فرار  ** چون ازو ببرید گیرد او قرار 
  • He who is in flight from another obtains rest when he has been separated from him (the pursuer).
  • من که خصمم هم منم اندر گریز  ** تا ابد کار من آمد خیزخیز  670
  • I, who am the adversary (of myself), ’tis I that am in flight (from myself): rising and departing is my occupation for ever.
  • نه به هندست آمن و نه در ختن  ** آنک خصم اوست سایه‌ی خویشتن 
  • He whose adversary is his own shadow is not safe either in India or Khutan.
  • در صفت آن بی‌خودان کی از شر خود و هنر خود آمن شده‌اند کی فانی‌اند در بقای حق هم‌چون ستارگان کی فانی‌اند روز در آفتاب و فانی را خوف آفت و خطر نباشد 
  • Description of the selfless ones who have become safe from their own vices and virtues; for they are naughted in the everlastingness of God, like stars which are naughted (vanish) in the Sun during the daytime; and he who is naughted hath no fear of bane and (is free from) danger.
  • چون فناش از فقر پیرایه شود  ** او محمدوار بی‌سایه شود 
  • When, through (spiritual) poverty, faná (self-naughting) graces him (such a one), he becomes shadowless like Mohammed.
  • فقر فخری را فنا پیرایه شد  ** چون زبانه‌ی شمع او بی‌سایه شد 
  • Faná graced (the Prophet who said) ‘Poverty is my pride’: he became shadowless like the flame of a candle.
  • شمع جمله شد زبانه پا و سر  ** سایه را نبود بگرد او گذر 
  • (When) the candle has become entirely flame from head to foot, the shadow hath no passage (way of approach) around it.