جانب دیگر خلش آغاز کرد ** باز قزوینی فغان را ساز کرد

The barber began to insert (his needle) in another part: once more the man of Qazwín set out to wail,

کاین سوم جانب چه اندام است نیز ** گفت این است اشکم شیر ای عزیز

Saying, “What is the member (you are pricking in) now on this third spot?” He replied, “This is the lion's belly, my dear sir.”

گفت تا اشکم نباشد شیر را ** چه شکم باید نگار سیر را

“Let the lion have no belly,” said he: “the pain has become too great: do not strike (further) blows.”

خیره شد دلاک و بس حیران بماند ** تا به دیر انگشت در دندان بماند

The barber became distraught and then remained in bewilderment: he stood for a long time with his fingers in his teeth;

بر زمین زد سوزن از خشم اوستاد ** گفت در عالم کسی را این فتاد 3000

The master angrily flung the needle to the ground and said, “Has this happened to any one in the world?

شیر بی‌‌دم و سر و اشکم که دید ** این چنین شیری خدا خود نافرید

Who (ever) saw a lion without tail and head and belly? God himself did not create a lion like this.”

ای برادر صبر کن بر درد نیش ** تا رهی از نیش نفس گبر خویش‌‌

O brother, endure the pain of the lancet, that you may escape from the poison of your miscreant self (nafs),

کان گروهی که رهیدند از وجود ** چرخ و مهر و ماهشان آرد سجود

For sky and sun and moon bow in worship to the people who have escaped from self existence.

هر که مرد اندر تن او نفس گبر ** مر و را فرمان برد خورشید و ابر

Any one in whose body the miscreant self has died, sun and cloud obey his command.

چون دلش آموخت شمع افروختن ** آفتاب او را نیارد سوختن‌‌ 3005

Since his heart has learned to light the candle (of spiritual knowledge and love), the sun cannot burn him.