The idol is the black water hidden in the jug; know that the self is the fountain.775
بت سیاه‌‌آبه‌‌ست در کوزه نهان ** نفس مر آب سیه را چشمه دان
That sculptured idol is like the black torrent; the idol-making self is a fountain (jetting muddy water) on the Water-way (the Way that leads to the Water of Life).
آن بت منحوت چون سیل سیاه ** نفس بتگر چشمه‌‌ای بر آب راه
A single piece of stone will break a hundred pitchers, but the fountain-water is making jets incessantly.
صد سبو را بشکند یک پاره سنگ ** و آب چشمه می‌‌زهاند بی‌‌درنگ
’Tis easy to break an idol, very easy; to regard the self as easy (to subdue) is folly, folly.
بت شکستن سهل باشد نیک سهل ** سهل دیدن نفس را جهل است جهل
O son, if you seek (to know) the form of the self, read the story of Hell with its seven gates.
صورت نفس ار بجویی ای پسر ** قصه‌‌ی دوزخ بخوان با هفت در
Every moment (there proceeds from the self) an act of deceit, and in every one of those deceits a hundred Pharaohs are drowned together with their followers.780
هر نفس مکری و در هر مکر ز آن ** غرقه صد فرعون با فرعونیان
Flee to the God of Moses and to Moses, do not from Pharaoh's quality (rebellious insolence) spill the water of the Faith.
در خدای موسی و موسی گریز ** آب ایمان را ز فرعونی مریز
Lay your hand on (cleave to) the One (God) and Ahmad (Mohammed)! O brother, escape from the Bú Jahl of the body!
دست را اندر احد و احمد بزن ** ای برادر واره از بو جهل تن
How a child began to speak amidst the fire and urged the people to throw themselves into the fire.
به سخن آمدن طفل در میان آتش و تحریض کردن خلق را در افتادن به آتش
That Jew brought to that idol a woman with her child, and the fire was blazing.
یک زنی با طفل آورد آن جهود ** پیش آن بت و آتش اندر شعله بود
He took the child from her and cast it into the fire: the woman was affrighted and withdrew her heart from (abandoned) her faith.
طفل از او بستد در آتش در فکند ** زن بترسید و دل از ایمان بکند