- The (Divine) curse was a blind to the Devil, so that he regarded that trickery (of his) as harm to (his) enemy.
- چشم بندی بود لعنت دیو را ** تا زیان خصم دید آن ریو را
- The (Divine) curse is that which makes him (any one) see falsely, and makes him envious, self-conceited, and malicious,
- لعنت این باشد که کژبینش کند ** حاسد و خود بین و پر کینش کند
- To the end that he may not know that whoever does evil, it (that evil) will at last come back and smite him.
- تا نداند که هر آن که کرد بد ** عاقبت باز آید و بر وی زند
- He sees all the master-moves invertedly: (hence) they result in check-mate to him and (in) failure and defeat. 2515
- جمله فرزین بندها بیند بعکس ** مات بر وی گردد و نقصان و وکس
- (The curse blinds him), because, if he regard himself as naught, (if) he regard the wound (his moral and spiritual blindness) as deadly and festering,
- ز انکه گر او هیچ بیند خویش را ** مهلک و ناسور بیند ریش را
- Pain will arise from such looking within, and the pain will bring him out from the veil (of self-conceit).
- درد خیزد زین چنین دیدن درون ** درد او را از حجاب آرد برون
- Until mothers are overtaken by the pains of childbirth, the child finds no way to be born.
- تا نگیرد مادران را درد زه ** طفل در زادن نیابد هیچ ره
- This (God-given) trust is in the heart, and the heart is pregnant (with it): these counsels (of the prophets and saints) are like the midwife.
- این امانت در دل و دل حامله ست ** این نصیحتها مثال قابله ست
- The midwife may say that the woman has no pain; (but) pain is necessary, pain is (makes) a way for the child (to be born). 2520
- قابله گوید که زن را درد نیست ** درد باید درد کودک را رهی است
- He that is without pain is a brigand, because to be without pain is to say “I am God.”
- آن که او بیدرد باشد ره زن است ** ز انکه بیدردی انا الحق گفتن است