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  • ز آن که ضد را ضد کند پیدا یقین ** ز آن که با سرکه پدید است انگبین‌‌
  • Because (every) contrary is certainly made evident by its contrary; because honey is perceived (to be sweet by contrast) with vinegar.

  • هر که نقص خویش را دید و شناخت ** اندر استکمال خود ده اسبه تاخت‌‌
  • Whoever has seen and recognised his own deficiency has galloped with ten horses (made rapid progress) in perfecting himself.

  • ز آن نمی‌‌پرد به سوی ذو الجلال ** کاو گمانی می‌‌برد خود را کمال‌‌
  • The reason why he (any one) is not flying towards the Lord of glory is that he supposes himself to be perfect.

  • علتی بدتر ز پندار کمال ** نیست اندر جان تو ای ذو دلال‌‌
  • There is no worse malady in your soul, O haughty one, than the conceit of perfection.

  • از دل و از دیده‌‌ات بس خون رود ** تا ز تو این معجبی بیرون رود 3215
  • Much blood must flow from your heart and eye, that self-complacency may go out of you.

  • علت ابلیس انا خیری بده ست ** وین مرض در نفس هر مخلوق هست‌‌
  • The fault of Iblís lay in thinking “I am better (than Adam),” and this disease is in the soul of every (human) creature.

  • گر چه خود را بس شکسته بیند او ** آب صافی دان و سرگین زیر جو
  • Though he regard himself as very broken (in spirit), know that it is (a case of) clear water (on the surface) and dung under the stream.

  • چون بشوراند ترا در امتحان ** آب سرگین رنگ گردد در زمان‌‌
  • When he (the Devil) stirs you in trial, immediately the water becomes dung-coloured.

  • در تگ جو هست سرگین ای فتی ** گر چه جو صافی نماید مر ترا
  • There is dung in the bed of the stream, my man, though to you the stream appears pure.

  • هست پیر راه دان پر فطن ** باغهای نفس کل را جوی کن‌‌ 3220
  • ’Tis the Pír full of wisdom, well-acquainted with the Way, that digs a channel for the gardens of the Universal Soul.