رفت موسی بر طریق نیستی ** گفت فرعونش بگو تو کیستی

Moses went on the way of non-existence (self-negation): Pharaoh said to him, “Tell (me), who art thou?”

گفت من عقلم رسول ذوالجلال ** حجةالله‌ام امانم از ضلال

He said, “I am Reason, the messenger of the Almighty: I am the proof of God, I am the protection against error.”

گفت نی خامش رها کن های هو ** نسبت و نام قدیمت را بگو 2310

“Nay,” said he, “hush, cease from (this ecstatic) outcry: tell (me) thy ancient lineage and name.”

گفت که نسبت مر از خاکدانش ** نام اصلم کمترین بندگانش

“My lineage,” he said, “(is derived) from His dust-pit; my original name is ‘the meanest of His slaves.’

بنده‌زاده‌ی آن خداوند وحید ** زاده از پشت جواری و عبید

I am the slave-born (slave) of that unique Lord—born of the (womb and) loins of slaves female and male.

نسبت اصلم ز خاک و آب و گل ** آب و گل را داد یزدان جان و دل

My original lineage (is derived) from earth and water and clay: God gave unto water and clay a soul and heart.

مرجع این جسم خاکم هم به خاک ** مرجع تو هم به خاک ای سهمناک

To earth also will return this earthen body of mine; to earth thou likewise wilt return, O terrible one.

اصل ما و اصل جمله سرکشان ** هست از خاکی و آن را صد نشان 2315

Our origin and the origin of all the proud is from a piece of earth, and (there are) a hundred signs thereof;

که مدد از خاک می‌گیرد تنت ** از غذایی خاک پیچد گردنت

For thy body receives support (sustenance) from the earth, and from earthly nutriment thy neck is wrapped in folds (of flesh).

چون رود جان می‌شود او باز خاک ** اندر آن گور مخوف سهمناک

When the spirit departs, it (the body) will again become earth in the dreaded and horrible grave.