از دل و از دیده‌‌ات بس خون رود ** تا ز تو این معجبی بیرون رود

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.

جوی خود را کی تواند پاک کرد ** نافع از علم خدا شد علم مرد

Who is able to cleanse the channel of his (sensual) self? Man's knowledge is made beneficial (only) by God's knowledge.

کی تراشد تیغ دسته‌‌ی خویش را ** رو به جراحی سپار این ریش را

How shall the sword fashion its own hilt? Go, entrust (the cure of) this wound to a surgeon.

بر سر هر ریش جمع آمد مگس ** تا نبیند قبح ریش خویش کس‌‌

Flies gather on every wound, so that no one sees the foulness of his wound.

آن مگس اندیشه‌‌ها و آن مال تو ** ریش تو آن ظلمت احوال تو

Those flies are your (evil) thoughts and your (love of) possessions: your wound is the darkness of your (spiritual) states;