بنده می‌نالد به حق از درد و نیش ** صد شکایت می‌کند از رنج خویش

The servant (of God) complains to God of pain and smart: he makes a hundred complaints of his pain.

حق همی گوید که آخر رنج و درد ** مر ترا لابه کنان و راست کرد

God says, “After all, grief and pain have made thee humbly entreating and righteous.

این گله زان نعمتی کن کت زند ** از در ما دور و مطرودت کند

Make this complaint of the bounty that befalls thee and removes thee far from My door and makes thee an outcast.”

در حقیقت هر عدو داروی تست ** کیمیا و نافع و دلجوی تست

In reality every foe (of yours) is your medicine: he is an elixir and beneficial and one that seeks to win your heart;

که ازو اندر گریزی در خلا ** استعانت جویی از لطف خدا 95

For you flee away from him into solitude and would fain implore help of God's grace.

در حقیقت دوستانت دشمن‌اند ** که ز حضرت دور و مشغولت کنند

Your friends are really enemies, for they make you far from the (Divine) Presence and occupied (with them).

هست حیوانی که نامش اشغرست ** او به زخم چوب زفت و لمترست

There is an animal whose name is ushghur (porcupine): it is (made) stout and big by blows of the stick.

تا که چوبش می‌زنی به می‌شود ** او ز زخم چوب فربه می‌شود

The more you cudgel it, the more it thrives: it grows fat on blows of the stick.

نفس مومن اشغری آمد یقین ** کو به زخم رنج زفتست و سمین

Assuredly the true believer's soul is a porcupine, for it is (made) stout and fat by the blows of tribulation.

زین سبب بر انبیا رنج و شکست ** از همه خلق جهان افزونترست 100

For this reason the tribulation and abasement (laid) upon the prophets is greater than (that laid upon) all the (other) creatures in the world,