چون زنی از کار بد شد روی زرد ** مسخ کرد او را خدا و زهره کرد

چون زنی از کار بد شد روی زرد ** مسخ کرد او را خدا و زهره کرد 535

When a woman became pale-faced (ashamed) of (her) wickedness, God metamorphosed her and made her Zuhra (the planet Venus).

عورتی را زهره کردن مسخ بود ** خاک و گل گشتن نه مسخ است ای عنود

To make a woman Zuhra was metamorphosis: is it not metamorphosis to become earth and clay, O contumacious one?

روح می‌‌بردت سوی چرخ برین ** سوی آب و گل شدی در اسفلین‌‌

Your spirit was bearing you towards the highest sphere (of heaven): you went towards the water and the clay amongst the lowest (of the low).

خویشتن را مسخ کردی زین سفول ** ز آن وجودی که بد آن رشک عقول‌‌

By this fall you metamorphosed yourself from that (state of) existence which was the envy of the (spiritual) intelligences.

پس ببین کین مسخ کردن چون بود ** پیش آن مسخ این به غایت دون بود

Consider, then, how is (what is the character of) this metamorphosis: compared with that metamorphosis (of the woman) this (which you have suffered) is exceedingly vile.

اسب همت سوی اختر تاختی ** آدم مسجود را نشناختی‌‌ 540

You urged the steed of ambition towards the stars: you did not acknowledge Adam who was worshipped (by the angels).

آخر آدم زاده‌‌ای ای ناخلف ** چند پنداری تو پستی را شرف‌‌

After all, you are a son of Adam. O degenerate! how long will you regard lowness as nobility?

چند گویی من بگیرم عالمی ** این جهان را پر کنم از خود همی‌‌

How long will you say, “I will conquer a whole world, I will make this world full of myself”?

گر جهان پر برف گردد سربه‌‌سر ** تاب خور بگدازدش با یک نظر

If the world should be filled with snow from end to end, the glow of the sun would melt it with a single look.

وزر او و صد وزیر و صد هزار ** نیست گرداند خدا از یک شرار

God by a single spark (of His mercy) maketh naught his (the vizier's) burden (of sin) and (the burden) of a hundred viziers and a hundred thousand.