گر بود در راه آب این را بریز ** ور نباشد وای بر مرد ستیز

If there be water (on the road), spill this (water which you have taken with you); and if there be none, alas for the obstinate man!

ای خلیفه‌زادگان دادی کنید ** حزم بهر روز میعادی کنید

O children of the Vicegerent (Adam), deal justly: act with prudence for the sake of the Day of Tryst (Judgement).

آن عدوی کز پدرتان کین کشید ** سوی زندانش ز علیین کشید

That enemy who took vengeance upon your father and dragged him from ‘Illiyyín to prison,

آن شه شطرنج دل را مات کرد ** از بهشتش سخره‌ی آفات کرد

And checkmated that king of the spiritual chessboard and made him, (cast out) from Paradise, a thrall to calamities—

چند جا بندش گرفت اندر نبرد ** تا بکشتی در فکندش روی‌زرد 2850

How often in combat did he seize him by sleight, that he might wrestle with him and throw him (to the ground) in disgrace!

اینچنین کردست با آن پهلوان ** سست سستش منگرید ای دیگران

Thus hath he done to that paladin (Adam): do not regard him with contempt, O ye others!

مادر و بابای ما را آن حسود ** تاج و پیرایه بچالاکی ربود

That envious one nimbly snatched away our mother's and father's crown and ornament.

کردشان آنجا برهنه و زار و خوار ** سالها بگریست آدم زار زار

There he made them naked and wretched and despicable: (many) years did Adam weep bitterly,

که ز اشک چشم او رویید نبت ** که چرا اندر جریده‌ی لاست ثبت

So that (sweet) herbs grew from the tears of his eyes: (he wept, wondering) why he was inscribed in the scroll of lá (negation).

تو قیاسی گیر طراریش را ** که چنان سرور کند زو ریش را 2855

Judge thou of his (the Devil's) impudent cheatery from the fact that on account of him such a prince (as Adam) rends his beard (in sorrow).