آن گمان بر وی ضمیر بد کند ** که قیاس از جهل و حرص خود کند

(Only) the evil mind which judges by its own ignorance and cupidity will think that of him (impute that motive to him).

آبگینه‌‌ی زرد چون سازی نقاب ** زرد بینی جمله نور آفتاب‌‌

When you make yellow glass a veil (between your eyes and the sun), you see all the sunlight yellow.

بشکن آن شیشه‌‌ی کبود و زرد را ** تا شناسی گرد را و مرد را

Break those blue and yellow glasses, in order that you may know (distinguish) the dust and the man (who is concealed by it).

گرد فارس گرد سر افراشته ** گرد را تو مرد حق پنداشته‌‌ 3960

The dust (of the body) has lifted up its head (risen) around the (spiritual) horseman: you have fancied the dust to be the man of God.

گرد دید ابلیس و گفت این فرع طین ** چون فزاید بر من آتش جبین‌‌

Iblís saw (only) the dust, and said, “How should this offspring of clay (Adam) be superior to me of the fiery brow?”

تا تو می‌‌بینی عزیزان را بشر ** دان که میراث بلیس است آن نظر

So long as thou art regarding the holy (prophets and saints) as men, know that that view is an inheritance from Iblís.

گر نه فرزند بلیسی ای عنید ** پس به تو میراث آن سگ چون رسید

If thou art not the child of Iblís, O contumacious one, then how has the inheritance of that cur come to thee?

من نیم سگ شیر حقم حق پرست ** شیر حق آن است کز صورت برست‌‌

“I am not a cur, I am the Lion of God, a worshipper of God: the lion of God is he that has escaped from (phenomenal) form.

شیر دنیا جوید اشکاری و برگ ** شیر مولی جوید آزادی و مرگ‌‌ 3965

The lion of this world seeks a prey and provision; the lion of the Lord seeks freedom and death.

چون که اندر مرگ بیند صد وجود ** همچو پروانه بسوزاند وجود

Inasmuch as in death he sees a hundred existences, like the moth he burns away (his own) existence.”