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  • How shall the (power of the) Elixir be shown if the vileness and baseness of coppers is not notorious?
  • خواری و دونی مسها بر ملا ** گر نباشد کی نماید کیمیا

  • Defects are the mirror of the quality of perfection, and that vileness is the mirror of power and glory, 3210
  • نقصها آیینه‌‌ی وصف کمال ** و آن حقارت آینه‌‌ی عز و جلال‌‌

  • Because (every) contrary is certainly made evident by its contrary; because honey is perceived (to be sweet by contrast) with vinegar.
  • ز آن که ضد را ضد کند پیدا یقین ** ز آن که با سرکه پدید است انگبین‌‌

  • Whoever has seen and recognised his own deficiency has galloped with ten horses (made rapid progress) in perfecting himself.
  • هر که نقص خویش را دید و شناخت ** اندر استکمال خود ده اسبه تاخت‌‌

  • The reason why he (any one) is not flying towards the Lord of glory is that he supposes himself to be perfect.
  • ز آن نمی‌‌پرد به سوی ذو الجلال ** کاو گمانی می‌‌برد خود را کمال‌‌

  • There is no worse malady in your soul, O haughty one, than the conceit of perfection.
  • علتی بدتر ز پندار کمال ** نیست اندر جان تو ای ذو دلال‌‌

  • Much blood must flow from your heart and eye, that self-complacency may go out of you. 3215
  • از دل و از دیده‌‌ات بس خون رود ** تا ز تو این معجبی بیرون رود

  • The fault of Iblís lay in thinking “I am better (than Adam),” and this disease is in the soul of every (human) creature.
  • علت ابلیس انا خیری بده ست ** وین مرض در نفس هر مخلوق هست‌‌

  • Though he regard himself as very broken (in spirit), know that it is (a case of) clear water (on the surface) and dung under the stream.
  • گر چه خود را بس شکسته بیند او ** آب صافی دان و سرگین زیر جو

  • When he (the Devil) stirs you in trial, immediately the water becomes dung-coloured.
  • چون بشوراند ترا در امتحان ** آب سرگین رنگ گردد در زمان‌‌