هین فسون گرم دارد گنده پیر ** کرده شاهان را دم گرمش اسیر

Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot breath hath made kings captive.

در درون سینه نفاثات اوست ** عقده‌های سحر را اثبات اوست 3195

She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery.

ساحره‌ی دنیا قوی دانا زنیست ** حل سحر او به پای عامه نیست

The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning woman: ’tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;

ور گشادی عقد او را عقلها ** انبیا را کی فرستادی خدا

And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how should God have sent the prophets?

هین طلب کن خوش‌دمی عقده‌گشا ** رازدان یفعل الله ما یشا

Hark, seek one whose breath is pure, a looser of knots, one who knows the mystery of God doeth whatso He willeth.

هم‌چو ماهی بسته است او به شست ** شاه زاده ماند سالی و تو شصت

She (the World) hath imprisoned thee, like a fish, in her net: the prince remained (there) one year, and thou sixty.

شصت سال از شست او در محنتی ** نه خوشی نه بر طریق سنتی 3200

From (being enmeshed in) her net thou art in tribulation sixty years: neither art thou happy nor (dost thou walk) in the way of the Sunna.

فاسقی بدبخت نه دنیات خوب ** نه رهیده از وبال و از ذنوب

Thou art a miserable unrighteous man: neither is thy worldly life good (happy) nor art thou delivered from guilt and sins.

نفخ او این عقده‌ها را سخت کرد ** پس طلب کن نفخه‌ی خلاق فرد

Her (the World's) breathing hath made these knots tight: seek, then, the breathing of the unique Creator,

تا نفخت فیه من روحی ترا ** وا رهاند زین و گوید برتر آ

In order that “I breathed of My spirit into him” may deliver thee from this (sorcery) and say (to thee), “Come higher!”