In the Way there is no harder pass than this. Oh, fortunate he who is not companioned by envy!
ای خنک آن کش حسد همراه نیست ** عقبهای زین صعبتر در راه نیست
This body, you must know, is the house of envy, for the household are tainted with envy.
این جسد خانهی حسد آمد بدان ** از حسد آلوده باشد خاندان
If the body is the house of envy, yet God made that body very pure.
گر جسد خانهی حسد باشد و لیک ** آن جسد را پاک کرد الله نیک
(The text) Cleanse My house, ye twain, is the explanation of (such) purity: it (the purified heart) is a treasure of (Divine) light, though its talisman is of earth.
طهرا بيتي بیان پاکی است ** گنج نور است ار طلسمش خاکی است
When you practise deceit and envy against one who is without envy, from that envy black stain arise in your heart.435
چون کنی بر بیجسد مکر و حسد ** ز آن حسد دل را سیاهیها رسد
Become (as) dust under the feet of the men of God; throw dust on the head of envy, even as we do.
خاک شو مردان حق را زیر پا ** خاک بر سر کن حسد را همچو ما
Explanation of the envy of the vizier.
بیان حسد وزیر
That petty vizier had his origin from envy, so that for vanity he gave to the wind (sacrificed) his ears and nose,
آن وزیرک از حسد بودش نژاد ** تا به باطل گوش و بینی باد داد
In the hope that by the sting of envy his venom might enter the souls of the poor (Christians).
بر امید آن که از نیش حسد ** زهر او در جان مسکینان رسد
Any one who from envy mutilates his nose makes himself without ear and without nose (unable to apprehend spiritual things).
هر کسی کاو از حسد بینی کند ** خویشتن بیگوش و بیبینی کند
The nose is that which catches a scent, and which the scent leads towards an abode (of spiritual truth).440
بینی آن باشد که او بویی برد ** بوی او را جانب کویی برد