آن چراغ شش فتیله‌ی این حواس ** جملگی بر خواب و خور دارد اساس

That lamp with six wicks, namely, these senses, is based entirely upon sleep and food.

بی‌خور و بی‌خواب نزید نیم دم ** با خور و با خواب نزید نیز هم

Without food and sleep it would not live half a moment; nor even with food and sleep does it live either.

بی‌فتیل و روغنش نبود بقا ** با فتیل و روغن او هم بی‌وفا

Without wick and oil it has no duration, and with wick and oil it is also faithless (transient),

زانک نور علتی‌اش مرگ‌جوست ** چون زید که روز روشن مرگ اوست 430

Inasmuch as its light, (being) related to (secondary) causes, is seeking death: how should it live when bright day is the death of it?

جمله حسهای بشر هم بی‌بقاست ** زانک پیش نور روز حشر لاست

Likewise all the human senses are impermanent, because they are naught in the presence of the Day of Resurrection.

نور حس و جان بابایان ما ** نیست کلی فانی و لا چون گیا

The light of the senses and spirits of our fathers is not wholly perishable and naught, like the grass;

لیک مانند ستاره و ماهتاب ** جمله محوند از شعاع آفتاب

But, like the stars and moonbeams, they all vanish in the radiance of the Sun.

آنچنان که سوز و درد زخم کیک ** محو گردد چون در آید مار الیک

’Tis just as the smart and pain of the flea's bite disappears when the snake comes in to you (and bites you).

آنچنان که عور اندر آب جست ** تا در آب از زخم زنبوران برست 435

’Tis just as the naked man jumped into the water, that in the water he might escape from the sting of the hornets:

می‌کند زنبور بر بالا طواف ** چون بر آرد سر ندارندش معاف

The hornets circle above (him), and when he puts out his head they do not spare him.