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 سنتی3200
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!”
جز به نفخ حق نسوزد نفخ سحر ** نفخ قهرست این و آن دم نفح مهر
The breathing of sorcery is not consumed save by the breathing of God: this (the former) is the breathing of (Divine) wrath, (while) that (the latter) exhalation is the breathing of (Divine) love.
رحمت او سابقست از قهر او ** سابقی خواهی برو سابق بجو3205
His mercy is prior to His wrath: (if) thou desirest priority (in spiritual rank), go, seek that (attribute) which is prior,