زان بود جنس بشر پیغامبران ** تا بجنسیت رهند از ناودان
The prophets are of humankind for this reason, that they (humankind), through the homogeneity (of the prophets with them), may be saved from the water-spout.
پس بشر فرمود خود را مثلکم ** تا به جنس آیید و کم گردید گم2670
Therefore he (the Prophet) called himself a man like you, that ye might come to your congener and might not become lost;
زانک جنسیت عجایب جاذبیست ** جاذبش جنسست هر جا طالبیست
For homogeneity is a wondrous attractor: wheresoever there is a seeker, his congener is attracting him.
عیسی و ادریس بر گردون شدند ** با ملایک چونک هم‌جنس آمدند
Jesus and Idrís ascended to heaven, since they were homogeneous with the angels.
باز آن هاروت و ماروت از بلند ** جنس تن بودند زان زیر آمدند
Again, Hárút and Márút were homogeneous with the body: hence they descended from on high.
کافران هم جنس شیطان آمده ** جانشان شاگرد شیطانان شده
The infidels have become homogeneous with Satan: their spirits have become disciples of the devils.
صد هزاران خوی بد آموخته ** دیده‌های عقل و دل بر دوخته2675
They have learned a hundred thousand evil dispositions; they have sewn up the eyes of intellect and heart.
کمترین خوشان به زشتی آن حسد ** آن حسد که گردن ابلیس زد
Their least ugly disposition is envy—that envy which smote the neck of (destroyed) Iblís.
زان سگان آموخته حقد و حسد ** که نخواهد خلق را ملک ابد
From those curs they have learned hatred and envy, for he (Satan) does not wish the kingdom everlasting (to be granted) to (God's) creatures.
هر کرا دید او کمال از چپ و راست ** از حسد قولنجش آمد درد خاست
When he sees, on left or right, any one perfect, colic comes to him and pain arises (in him) from envy,
زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن‌سوخته ** می‌نخواهد شمع کس افروخته
Because every miserable wretch whose stack has been burnt is unwilling that any one's candle should be lighted.
هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم ** از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم2680
Hark, bring to hand (acquire) some (degree of) perfection, in order that thou too mayst not be aggrieved by the perfection of others.
از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد
Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,
مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون ** که نپردازی از آن سوی برون
And bestow on thee an inward occupation, from which thou wilt not become disengaged (so as to turn thy attention) outwards.
جرعه‌ی می را خدا آن می‌دهد ** که بدو مست از دو عالم می‌دهد
God gives to a draught of wine such (potency) that one intoxicated with it escapes from the two worlds.
خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش
He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.
خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند2685
God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds.
کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی
He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.
صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او
He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.
هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را
For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.
هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را
For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.
خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش2690
Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction.
هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو
Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.
این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها
Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;
زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در
For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.