مسجدست آن دل که جسمش ساجدست ** یار بد خروب هر جا مسجدست

The mosque is the heart to which the body bows down: wherever the mosque is, the bad companion is the carob.

یار بد چون رست در تو مهر او ** هین ازو بگریز و کم کن گفت وگو

When love for a bad companion has grown in you, beware, flee from him and do not converse (with him).

برکن از بیخش که گر سر بر زند ** مر ترا و مسجدت را بر کند 1385

Tear it up by the root, for if it shoot up its head it wilt demolish (both) you and your mosque.

عاشقا خروب تو آمد کژی ** هم‌چو طفلان سوی کژ چون می‌غژی

O lover, your carob is falseness: why do you creep, like children, towards the false?

خویش مجرم دان و مجرم گو مترس ** تا ندزدد از تو آن استاد درس

Know yourself a sinner and calf yourself a sinner—do not be afraid—so that that Master may not steal (secretly take away) the lesson from you.

چون بگویی جاهلم تعلیم ده ** این چنین انصاف از ناموس به

When you say, “I am ignorant; give (me) instruction,” such fair-dealing is better than (a false) reputation.

از پدر آموز ای روشن‌جبین ** ربنا گفت و ظلمنا پیش ازین

Learn from your father (Adam), O clear-browed man: he said heretofore, “O our Lord” and “We have done wrong.”

نه بهانه کرد و نه تزویر ساخت ** نه لوای مکر و حیلت بر فراخت 1390

He made no excuse, nor did he invent falsehood nor lift up the banner of deceit and evasion.

باز آن ابلیس بحث آغاز کرد ** که بدم من سرخ رو کردیم زرد

That Iblís, on the other hand, began to dispute, saying, “I was red-faced (honourable): Thou hast made me yellow (disgraced).

رنگ رنگ تست صباغم توی ** اصل جرم و آفت و داغم توی

The colour is Thy colour: Thou art my dyer, Thou art the origin of my sin and bane and brand.”