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  • چون سزای این بت نفس او نداد ** از بت نفسش بتی دیگر بزاد
  • Inasmuch as he did not give due punishment to this idol of self, from the idol of his self the other idol was born.

  • مادر بتها بت نفس شماست ** ز آن که آن بت مار و این بت اژدهاست‌‌
  • The idol of your self is the mother of (all) idols, because that (material) idol is (only) a snake, while this (spiritual) idol is a dragon.

  • آهن و سنگ است نفس و بت شرار ** آن شرار از آب می‌‌گیرد قرار
  • The self is (as) iron and stone (whence fire is produced), while the (material) idol is (as) the sparks: those sparks are quieted (quenched) by water.

  • سنگ و آهن ز آب کی ساکن‌‌شود ** آدمی با این دو کی ایمن شود
  • (But) how should the stone and iron be allayed by water? How should a man, having these twain, be secure?

  • بت سیاه‌‌آبه‌‌ست در کوزه نهان ** نفس مر آب سیه را چشمه دان‌‌ 775
  • The idol is the black water hidden in the jug; know that the self is the fountain.

  • آن بت منحوت چون سیل سیاه ** نفس بتگر چشمه‌‌ای بر آب راه‌‌
  • That sculptured idol is like the black torrent; the idol-making self is a fountain (jetting muddy water) on the Water-way (the Way that leads to the Water of Life).

  • صد سبو را بشکند یک پاره سنگ ** و آب چشمه می‌‌زهاند بی‌‌درنگ‌‌
  • A single piece of stone will break a hundred pitchers, but the fountain-water is making jets incessantly.

  • بت شکستن سهل باشد نیک سهل ** سهل دیدن نفس را جهل است جهل‌‌
  • ’Tis easy to break an idol, very easy; to regard the self as easy (to subdue) is folly, folly.

  • صورت نفس ار بجویی ای پسر ** قصه‌‌ی دوزخ بخوان با هفت در
  • O son, if you seek (to know) the form of the self, read the story of Hell with its seven gates.

  • هر نفس مکری و در هر مکر ز آن ** غرقه صد فرعون با فرعونیان‌‌ 780
  • Every moment (there proceeds from the self) an act of deceit, and in every one of those deceits a hundred Pharaohs are drowned together with their followers.