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  • چون فرشته و عقل کایشان یک بدند ** بهر حکمتهاش دو صورت شدند
  • Like the angel and the intellect, which were (really) one, (but) became two forms for the sake of His (God's) wise purposes.

  • دشمنی داری چنین در سر خویش ** مانع عقلست و خصم جان و کیش 4055
  • You have such an enemy as this in your inward part: he is the preventer of the intellect, and the adversary of the spirit and of religion.

  • یکنفس حمله کند چون سوسمار ** پس بسوراخی گریزد در فرار
  • At one moment he dashes forward like the Libyan lizard; then (again) in flight he darts away into a hole.

  • در دل او سوراخها دارد کنون ** سر ز هر سوراخ می‌آرد برون
  • Just now he has (many) holes in the (human) heart, and from every hole he is putting out his head.

  • نام پنهان گشتن دیو از نفوس ** واندر آن سوراخ رفتن شد خنوس
  • The name that denotes the Devil's becoming hidden from (men's) souls and going into that hole is khunús (slinking back),

  • که خنوسش چون خنوس قنفذست ** چون سر قنفذ ورا آمد شذست
  • For his khunús is like the khunús of the hedgehog: like the head of the hedgehog, he pops in and out;

  • که خدا آن دیو را خناس خواند ** کو سر آن خارپشتک را بماند 4060
  • For God hath called the Devil Khannás (the slinker), because he resembles the head of the little hedgehog.

  • می نهان گردد سر آن خارپشت ** دم‌بدم از بیم صیاد درشت
  • The head of the hedgehog is continually being hidden because of its fear of the cruel hunter,

  • تا چو فرصت یافت سر آرد برون ** زین چنین مکری شود مارش زبون
  • Until, when it has found an opportunity, it puts out its head: by such a stratagem the snake becomes its prey.

  • گرنه نفس از اندرون راهت زدی ** ره‌زنان را بر تو دستی کی بدی
  • If the fleshly soul had not waylaid you from within, how would the brigands have any power to lay a hand upon you?