ور بداند ره دل با هوش او ** کی رود هر های و هو در گوش او
But if his (the traveller’s) wise heart knows the way, how should every hey and ho go into his ear?
پس مشو همراه این اشتردلان ** زانک وقت ضیق و بیمند آفلان
Therefore do not journey with these camel-hearted (craven) ones, for in the hour of distress and danger they are the ones who sink;
پس گریزند و ترا تنها هلند ** گرچه اندر لاف سحر بابلند
Then they flee and leave thee alone, though in boasting they are (powerful as) the magic of Babylon.
تو ز رعنایان مجو هین کارزار ** تو ز طاوسان مجو صید و شکار
Beware! Do not thou request sybarites to fight; do not request peacocks to engage in the hunt and the chase.
طبع طاوسست و وسواست کند ** دم زند تا از مقامت بر کند4035
The carnal nature is a peacock: it tempts thee and talks idly, that it may remove thee from thy (spiritual) post.
گفتن شیطان قریش را کی به جنگ احمد آیید کی من یاریها کنم وقبیله‌ی خود را بیاری خوانم و وقت ملاقات صفین گریختن
How Satan said to the Quraysh, “Go to war with Ahmad (Mohammed), for I will aid you and call my tribe to help”; and how, when the two battle-lines confronted each other, he fled.
همچو شیطان در سپه شد صد یکم ** خواند افسون که اننی جار لکم
As (for example) Satan became the hundred-and-first in the army (of the Quraysh) and spake beguiling words, saying, “Verily, I am a protector for you.”
چون قریش از گفت او حاضر شدند ** هر دو لشکر در ملاقان آمدند
When the Quraysh had assembled at his bidding, and the two armies confronted each other,
دید شیطان از ملایک اسپهی ** سوی صف مومنان اندر رهی
Satan espied a host of angels on a road beside the ranks of the Faithful.
آن جنودا لم تروها صف زده ** گشت جان او ز بیم آتشکده
(He espied) those troops that ye saw not, drawn up in ranks; and from terror his soul became (like) a fire-temple.
پای خود وا پس کشیده می‌گرفت ** که همی‌بینم سپاهی من شگفت4040
Turning on his heel, he began to retreat, saying, “I behold a marvellous host”—
ای اخاف الله ما لی منه عون ** اذهبوا انی اری ما لاترون
That is, “I fear God: I have no help from Him. Get ye gone! Verily, I see what ye see not.”
گفت حارث ای سراقه شکل هین ** دی چرا تو می‌نگفتی اینچنین
Hárith said, “Hey, O thou that hast the form of Suráqa, why wert not thou saying such-like words yesterday?”
گفت این دم من همی‌بینم حرب ** گفت می‌بینی جعاشیش عرب
He replied, “At this moment I see destruction (before me).” He (Hárith) said, “Thou seest the most puny of the Arabs.
می‌نبینی غیر این لیک ای تو ننگ ** آن زمان لاف بود این وقت جنگ
Thou art seeing naught but this; but, O thou disgrace, that was the time of talk, and this is the time of battle.
دی همی‌گفتی که پایندان شدم ** که بودتان فتح و نصرت دم‌بدم4045
Yesterday thou wert saying, ‘I pledge myself that victory and Divine aid will always be yours.’
دی زعیم الجیش بودی ای لعین ** وین زمان نامرد و ناچیز و مهین
Yesterday thou wert the surety for the army, O accursed one, and now thou art cowardly, good-for-nothing, and vile,
تا بخوردیم آن دم تو و آمدیم ** تو بتون رفتی و ما هیزم شدیم
So that (after) we swallowed those (deceitful) words of thine and came (to battle), thou hast gone to the bath-stove and we have become the fuel.”
چونک حارث با سراقه گفت این ** از عتابش خشمگین شد آن لعین
When Hárith said this to Suráqa, that accursed one was enraged at his reproaches.
دست خود خشمین ز دست او کشید ** چون ز گفت اوش درد دل رسید
He angrily withdrew his hand from his (Hárith's) hand, since his heart was pained by his words.
سینه‌اش را کوفت شیطان و گریخت ** خون آن بیچارگان زین مکر ریخت4050
Satan smote his (Hárith's) breast and fled: by means of this plot he shed the blood of those wretched men.
چونک ویران کرد چندین عالم او ** پس بگفت این بری منکم
After he had ruined so great a multitude, he then said, “Lo, I am quit of you.”
کوفت اندر سینه‌اش انداختش ** پس گریزان شد چو هیبت تاختش
He smote him on the breast and overthrew him; then he turned to flee, since terror urged him on.
نفس و شیطان هر دو یک تن بوده‌اند ** در دو صورت خویش را بنموده‌اند
The fleshly soul and the Devil both have (ever) been one person (essentially); (but) they have manifested themselves in two forms,
چون فرشته و عقل کایشان یک بدند ** بهر حکمتهاش دو صورت شدند
Like the angel and the intellect, which were (really) one, (but) became two forms for the sake of His (God's) wise purposes.
دشمنی داری چنین در سر خویش ** مانع عقلست و خصم جان و کیش4055
You have such an enemy as this in your inward part: he is the preventer of the intellect, and the adversary of the spirit and of religion.