وقت ذبح الله اکبر می‌کنی ** همچنین در ذبح نفس کشتنی

At the moment of slaughtering (the victim) you say Alláh akbar: even so (do) in slaughtering the fleshly soul which ought to be killed.

تن چو اسمعیل و جان همچون خلیل ** کرد جان تکبیر بر جسم نبیل 2145

The body is like Ismá‘íl (Ishmael), and the spirit like Abraham: the spirit has pronounced the takbír over the noble body.

گشت کشته تن ز شهوتها و آز ** شد به بسم الله بسمل در نماز

By lusts and desires the body was (merely) killed, (but) by (the words) bismilláh (uttered) in the ritual prayer it was sacrificed.

چون قیامت پیش حق صفها زده ** در حساب و در مناجات آمده

Whilst performing the prayer (they were) drawn up in ranks before God, as at the Resurrection, and engaged in self-examination and orisons,

ایستاده پیش یزدان اشک‌ریز ** بر مثال راست‌خیز رستخیز

Standing in God's presence and shedding tears, like one who rises erect on (the Day of) rising from the dead.

حق همی‌گوید چه آوردی مرا ** اندرین مهلت که دادم من ترا

(On that Day) God will say, “What hast thou produced for Me during this term of respite which I gave thee?

عمر خود را در چه پایان برده‌ای ** قوت و قوت در چه فانی کرده‌ای 2150

In what (work) hast thou brought thy life to its end? In what hast thou consumed thy food and strength?

گوهر دیده کجا فرسوده‌ای ** پنج حس را در کجا پالوده‌ای

Where hast thou dimmed the lustre of thine eye? Where hast thou dissipated thy five senses?

چشم و هوش و گوش و گوهرهای عرش ** خرج کردی چه خریدی تو ز فرش

Thou hast expended eyes and ears and intellect and the pure celestial substances: what hast thou purchased from the earth?

دست و پا دادمت چون بیل و کلند ** من ببخشیدم ز خود آن کی شدند

I gave thee hands and feet as spade and mattock (for tilling the soil of good works). When did those become (existent) of themselves?”