The people said, “This Solomon is without excellence: there are (great) differences between (that) Solomon and (this) Solomon.”
خلق گفتند این سلیمان بی‌صفاست ** از سلیمان تا سلیمان فرقهاست
He (the former) is like wakefulness, this one is like sleep; (there is as much difference) as between that Hasan and this Hasan.
او چو بیداریست این هم‌چون وسن ** هم‌چنانک آن حسن با این حسن
The Demon would reply, “God has bestowed on Ahriman a pleasing form (aspect) in the likeness of me.
دیو می‌گفتی که حق بر شکل من ** صورتی کردست خوش بر اهرمن
God hath given my aspect to the Devil: let him not cast you into his net!1270
دیو را حق صورت من داده است ** تا نیندازد شما را او بشست
If he appear with the pretence (that he is really I), beware! Do not have regard to his (outward) form.”
گر پدید آید به دعوی زینهار ** صورت او را مدارید اعتبار
The Demon was saying this to them from guile, but in good (enlightened) hearts the reverse of this was apparent.
دیوشان از مکر این می‌گفت لیک ** می‌نمود این عکس در دلهای نیک
There is no playing tricks with the discerning man, especially (with) him whose discernment and intelligence speak of the Unseen.
نیست بازی با ممیز خاصه او ** که بود تمییز و عقلش غیب‌گو
No magic and no imposture and fraud will bind a veil upon the owners of (spiritual) empire.
هیچ سحر و هیچ تلبیس و دغل ** می‌نبندد پرده بر اهل دول
Hence they were saying to themselves in reply (to the Demon), “Thou art going upside down, O thou who art addressed falsely (by the name of Solomon).1275
پس همی گفتند با خود در جواب ** بازگونه می‌روی ای کژ خطاب
Upside down likewise thou wilt go Hellward, the lowest among the low.
بازگونه رفت خواهی همچنین ** سوی دوزخ اسفل اندر سافلین