مستی آن مستی این بشکند ** او به شهوت التفاتی کی کند

The intoxication of that one (the angel) breaks (reduces to insignificance) the intoxication of this one (the human being): how should he (the angel) show any propensity to lust?

آب شیرین تا نخوردی آب شور ** خوش بود خوش چون درون دیده نور

Until you have drunk sweet water, briny water is sweet, sweet as the light in the eye;

قطره‌ای از باده‌های آسمان ** بر کند جان را ز می وز ساقیان

(But) a single drop of the wines of Heaven causes the soul to be rapt away from the wine and cupbearers (of this world)—

تا چه مستیها بود املاک را ** وز جلالت روحهای پاک را

So that (you may imagine) what intoxications befall the angels and the spirits purified by the Divine glory,

که به بوی دل در آن می بسته‌اند ** خم باده‌ی این جهان بشکسته‌اند 825

Who have set their hearts on that wine at one smell (of it), and have broken the jar of this world's wine;—

جز مگر آنها که نومیدند و دور ** همچو کفاری نهفته در قبور

Except, maybe, them that are in despair and far (from God), (outcasts) like infidels hidden (buried) in graves,

ناامید از هر دو عالم گشته‌اند ** خارهای بی‌نهایت کشته‌اند

(Them that) have lost all hope of both worlds and have sown thorns without end.

پس ز مستیها بگفتند ای دریغ ** بر زمین باران بدادیمی چو میغ

Therefore they (Hárút and Márút), because of their feelings of intoxication, said, “Alas, we would rain upon the earth, like clouds;

گستریدیمی درین بی‌داد جا ** عدل و انصاف و عبادات و وفا

We would spread in this place of injustice (a carpet of) justice and equity and devotions and faithfulness.”

این بگفتند و قضا می‌گفت بیست ** پیش پاتان دام ناپیدا بسیست 830

This they said, and the Divine decree was saying (to them), “Stop! Before your feet there is many an unseen pitfall.”