گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه‌‌

(Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.

بنده‌‌ی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق‌‌ 3815

In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude,

کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر

For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.

بنده‌‌ی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص‌‌

The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.

در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست‌‌

He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.

در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمی‌‌یابم رسن‌‌

He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.

بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود 3820

I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed.

این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است‌‌

(If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.

خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست‌‌

They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.

چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بنده‌‌ی غول نیست‌‌

Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).