چون در او گامی زنی بی‏احتیاط ** شیر تو خون می‏شود از اختلاط

When you take one step in it (the world) without precaution, your milk will be turned to blood through commixture.

یک قدم زد آدم اندر ذوق نفس ** شد فراق صدر جنت طوق نفس‏ 15

Adam took one step in sensual pleasure: separation from his high place in Paradise became a collar on the neck of his (fleshly) soul.

همچو دیو از وی فرشته می‏گریخت ** بهر نانی چند آب چشم ریخت‏

The angels were fleeing from him as from a devil: how many tears did he shed for the sake of a single loaf!

گر چه یک مو بد گنه کاو جسته بود ** لیک آن مو در دو دیده رسته بود

Although the sin which he had compassed was (but) a hair, yet that hair had grown in his eyes.

بود آدم دیده‏ی نور قدیم ** موی در دیده بود کوه عظیم‏

Adam was the eye of the Eternal Light: a hair in the eye is a great mountain.

گر در آن آدم بکردی مشورت ** در پشیمانی نگفتی معذرت‏

If Adam had taken counsel in that (matter), he would not have uttered excuses in penitence,

ز آن که با عقلی چو عقلی جفت شد ** مانع بد فعلی و بد گفت شد 20

Because when one intellect is joined with another intellect, it prevents evil action and evil speech;

نفس با نفس دگر چون یار شد ** عقل جزوی عاطل و بی‏کار شد

(But) when the fleshly soul is associated with another fleshly soul, the partial (individual) intellect becomes idle and useless.

چون ز تنهایی تو نومیدی شوی ** زیر سایه‏ی یار خورشیدی شوی‏

When because of loneliness you fall into despair, you become (bright as) a sun (if you go) under the shadow (protection) of the friend.

رو بجو یار خدایی را تو زود ** چون چنان کردی خدا یار تو بود

Go, seek at once the friend of God: when you have done so, God is your friend.