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  • 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?

  • زان عوان مقتضی که شهوتست ** دل اسیر حرص و آز و آفتست
  • On account of the exigent myrmidon, who is Lust, the heart is captive to greed and cupidity and bane.

  • زان عوان سر شدی دزد و تباه ** تا عوانان را به قهر تست راه 4065
  • On account of that inward myrmidon you have become thievish and depraved, so that the way is (open) for the (external) myrmidons to coerce you.

  • در خبر بشنو تو این پند نکو ** بیم جنبیکم لکم اعدی عدو
  • Hearken to this good counsel in the Traditions (of the Prophet)—“Your worst enemy is between your two sides.”

  • طمطراق این عدو مشنو گریز ** کو چو ابلیسست در لج و ستیز
  • Do not listen to the pompous talk of this enemy, (but) flee, for she is like Iblís in obstinately wrangling and quarrelling.

  • بر تو او از بهر دنیا و نبرد ** آن عذاب سرمدی را سهل کرد
  • For the sake of this world and for contention's sake she has made the everlasting torment (seem) easy (of small account) to you.

  • چه عجب گر مرگ را آسان کند ** او ز سحر خویش صد چندان کند
  • What wonder, if she makes death (seem) easy? By her magic she does a hundred times as much (as this).

  • سحر کاهی را به صنعت که کند ** باز کوهی را چو کاهی می‌تند 4070
  • Magic makes a straw a mountain by artifice; (or) again, it weaves a mountain like a straw.

  • زشتها را نغز گرداند به فن ** نغزها را زشت گرداند به ظن
  • It makes ugly things beautiful by means of sleight; it makes beautiful things ugly by means of (false) opinion.