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
She was about to bow down before the idol (when) the child cried, “Verily, I am not dead.785
خواست تا او سجده آرد پیش بت ** بانگ زد آن طفل إنی لم أمت
Come in, O mother: I am happy here, although in appearance I am amidst the fire.
اندر آ ای مادر اینجا من خوشم ** گر چه در صورت میان آتشم
The fire is a spell that binds the eye for the sake of screening (the truth); this is (in reality) a Divine mercy which has raised its head from the collar (has been manifested from the Unseen).
چشم بند است آتش از بهر حجاب ** رحمت است این سر بر آورده ز جیب
Come in, mother, and see the evidence of God, that thou mayst behold the delight of God's elect.
اندر آ مادر ببین برهان حق ** تا ببینی عشرت خاصان حق