هر کرا دید او کمال از چپ و راست ** از حسد قولنجش آمد درد خاست

When he sees, on left or right, any one perfect, colic comes to him and pain arises (in him) from envy,

زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن‌سوخته ** می‌نخواهد شمع کس افروخته

Because every miserable wretch whose stack has been burnt is unwilling that any one's candle should be lighted.

هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم ** از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم 2680

Hark, bring to hand (acquire) some (degree of) perfection, in order that thou too mayst not be aggrieved by the perfection of others.

از خدا می‌خواه دفع این حسد ** تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد

Beg of God the removal of this envy, that God may deliver thee from the body,

مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون ** که نپردازی از آن سوی برون

And bestow on thee an inward occupation, from which thou wilt not become disengaged (so as to turn thy attention) outwards.

جرعه‌ی می را خدا آن می‌دهد ** که بدو مست از دو عالم می‌دهد

God gives to a draught of wine such (potency) that one intoxicated with it escapes from the two worlds.

خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش ** کو زمانی می‌رهاند از خودیش

He hath endowed hashísh with the property that, for a time, it delivers him (who eats it) from self-consciousness.

خواب را یزدان بدان سان می‌کند ** کز دو عالم فکر را بر می‌کند 2685

God makes sleep to be (constituted) in such a manner that it erases (all) thought of the two worlds.

کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی ** کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی

He made Majnún, through love for a (dog's) skin, to be such that he would not know an enemy from a friend.

صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او

He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.