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4783-4792

  • خورده گندم حله زو بیرون شده  ** خلد بر وی بادیه و هامون شده 
  • He had eaten the wheat (the forbidden fruit), his celestial robe had been stripped off him, and Paradise had become for him a desert and sandy plain.

  • دید کان شربت ورا بیمار کرد  ** زهر آن ما و منیها کار کرد 
  • He perceived that that (intoxicating) draught had made him ill and that the poison of those egoistic pretensions had done its work.

  • جان چون طاوس در گل‌زار ناز  ** هم‌چو چغدی شد به ویرانه‌ی مجاز  4785
  • His soul that was (formerly) like a peacock in the (eternal) garden of delight (now) became like an owl in the wilderness of unreality.

  • هم‌چو آدم دور ماند او از بهشت  ** در زمین می‌راند گاوی بهر کشت 
  • Like Adam, he was left far away from Paradise, driving an ox on the earth for the purpose of sowing.

  • اشک می‌راند او کای هندوی زاو  ** شیر را کردی اسیر دم گاو 
  • He was shedding tears and crying, “O Hindú mighty (in craft), thou hast made the lion a captive of the cow's tail.

  • کردی ای نفس بد بارد نفس  ** بی‌حفاظی با شه فریادرس 
  • O wicked fleshly soul with thy chill breath, thou hast acted disloyally to the King who answers every call for help.

  • دام بگزیدی ز حرص گندمی  ** بر تو شد هر گندم او کزدمی 
  • In thy greed for a grain of wheat thou hast chosen (to enter) the trap, and every grain of its wheat has become a scorpion to (sting) thee.

  • در سرت آمد هوای ما و من  ** قید بین بر پای خود پنجاه من  4790
  • The vain fancy of egoism came into thy head: (now) behold a shackle weighing fifty mann on thy foot!”

  • نوحه می‌کرد این نمط بر جان خویش  ** که چرا گشتم ضد سلطان خویش 
  • In this fashion was he mourning for his soul, saying, “Why did I become the antagonist of my sovereign?”

  • آمد او با خویش و استغفار کرد  ** با انابت چیز دیگر یار کرد 
  • (Then) he came to himself and asked pardon of God, and with his repentance he combined something else.