هر که اندر شیخ تیغی می‌خلید ** بازگونه از تن خود می‌درید

Every one who plunged a dagger into the Shaykh was reversely making a gash in his own body.

یک اثر نه بر تن آن ذوفنون ** وان مریدان خسته و غرقاب خون

There was no mark (of a wound) on the body of that possessor of the (mystic) sciences, while those disciples were wounded and drowned in blood.

هر که او سویی گلویش زخم برد ** حلق خود ببریده دید و زار مرد 2130

Whoever aimed a blow at his throat saw his own throat cut, and died miserably;

وآنک او را زخم اندر سینه زد ** سینه‌اش بشکافت و شد مرده‌ی ابد

And whoever inflicted a blow on his breast, his (own) breast was riven, and he became dead for ever;

وآنک آگه بود از آن صاحب‌قران ** دل ندادش که زند زخم گران

And he that was acquainted with that (spiritual) emperor of high fortune, (and) his heart (courage) did not consent to strike a heavy blow,

نیم‌دانش دست او را بسته کرد ** جان ببرد الا که خود را خسته کرد

Half-knowledge tied his hand, (so that) he saved his life and only wounded himself.

روز گشت و آن مریدان کاسته ** نوحه‌ها از خانه‌شان برخاسته

Day broke, and the disciples were thinned: wails of lamentation arose from their house.

پیش او آمد هزاران مرد و زن ** کای دو عالم درج در یک پیرهن 2135

Thousands of men and women came to him (Báyazíd), saying, “O thou in whose single shirt the two worlds are contained,

این تن تو گر تن مردم بدی ** چون تن مردم ز خنجر گم شدی

If this body of thine were a human body, it would have been destroyed, like a human body, by the daggers.”

با خودی با بی‌خودی دوچار زد ** با خود اندر دیده‌ی خود خار زد

A self-existent one encountered a selfless one in combat: the self-existent one drove a thorn into his own eye (hurt himself).