آن تویی و آن زخم بر خود می‌‌زنی ** بر خود آن دم تار لعنت می‌‌تنی‌‌

You are that (evil-doer), and you are striking those blows at yourself: you are weaving a curse upon yourself at that moment.

در خود آن بد را نمی‌‌بینی عیان ** ور نه دشمن بودیی خود را به جان‌‌

You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with (all) your soul.

حمله بر خود می‌‌کنی ای ساده مرد ** همچو آن شیری که بر خود حمله کرد

You are assaulting yourself, O simpleton, like the lion who made a rush at himself.

چون به قعر خوی خود اندر رسی ** پس بدانی کز تو بود آن ناکسی‌‌

When you reach the bottom of your own nature, then you will know that that vileness was from yourself.

شیر را در قعر پیدا شد که بود ** نقش او آن کش دگر کس می‌‌نمود 1325

At the bottom (of the well) it became manifest to the lion that he who seemed to him to be another was (really) his own image.

هر که دندان ضعیفی می‌‌کند ** کار آن شیر غلط بین می‌‌کند

Whoever tears out the teeth of a poor wretch is doing what the falsely-seeing lion did.

ای بدیده عکس بد بر روی عم ** بد نه عم است آن تویی از خود مرم‌‌

O you who see the bad reflexion on the face of your uncle, it is not your uncle that is bad, it is you: do not run away from yourself!

مومنان آیینه‌‌ی همدیگرند ** این خبر می‌‌از پیمبر آورند

The Faithful are mirrors to one another: this saying is related from the Prophet.

پیش چشمت داشتی شیشه‌‌ی کبود ** ز آن سبب عالم کبودت می‌‌نمود

You held a blue glass before your eye: for that reason the world seemed to you to be blue.

گر نه کوری این کبودی دان ز خویش ** خویش را بد گو، مگو کس را تو بیش‌‌ 1330

Unless you are blind, know that this blueness comes from yourself: speak ill of yourself, speak no more ill of any one (else).