- That mother of bad character, whose wickedness is in every quarter, is your fleshly soul.
- نفس تست آن مادر بد خاصیت ** که فساد اوست در هر ناحیت
- Come, kill it, for on account of that vile (creature) you are every moment assailing one who is venerable.
- هین بکش او را که بهر آن دنی ** هر دمی قصد عزیزی میکنی
- Through it this fair world is narrow (distressful) to you, for its sake (you are at) war with God and man.
- از وی این دنیای خوش بر تست تنگ ** از پی او با حق و با خلق جنگ
- (If) you have killed the fleshly soul, you are delivered from (the necessity of) excusing yourself: nobody in the world remains your enemy. 785
- نفس کشتی باز رستی ز اعتذار ** کس ترا دشمن نماند در دیار
- If any one should raise a difficulty about my words in regard to the prophets and saints,
- گر شکال آرد کسی بر گفت ما ** از برای انبیا و اولیا
- (And should say), “Had not the prophets a killed (mortified) fleshly soul? Why, then, had they enemies and enviers?”—
- کانبیا را نه که نفس کشته بود ** پس چراشان دشمنان بود و حسود
- Give ear, O seeker of truth, and hear the answer to this difficulty and doubt.
- گوش کن تو ای طلبکار صواب ** بشنو این اشکال و شبهت را جواب
- Those unbelievers were (really) enemies to themselves: they were striking at themselves such blows (as they struck).
- دشمن خود بودهاند آن منکران ** زخم بر خود میزدند ایشان چنان
- An enemy is one who attempts (another's) life; he that is himself destroying his own life is not an enemy (to others). 790
- دشمن آن باشد که قصد جان کند ** دشمن آن نبود که خود جان میکند
- The little bat is not an enemy to the sun: it is an enemy to itself in the veil (of its own blindness).
- نیست خفاشک عدوی آفتاب ** او عدوی خویش آمد در حجاب