Through a slit whereof the owner of the house hath no conception and in which he hath no share.
از شکافی که ندارد هیچ وهم ** صاحب خانه و ندارد هیچ سهم
Recite from the Qur’án (the verse which declares) that the Devil and his tribe secretly get scent of (become acquainted with) the (inward) state of humankind,1780
از نبی بر خوان که دیو و قوم او ** می‌برند از حال انسی خفیه بو
By a way of which humankind are ignorant, because it is not of this sensible (world) or one of these semblances (phenomenal objects).
از رهی که انس از آن آگاه نیست ** زانک زین محسوس و زین اشباه نیست
Do not devise any fraud amongst the assayers: do not address any idle boast to the touchstone, O base spurious coin.
در میان ناقدان زرقی متن ** با محک ای قلب دون لافی مزن
The (spiritual) touchstone hath a way to (know) the genuine and the spurious coin, for God made him the commander of (both) body and heart.
مر محک را ره بود در نقد و قلب ** که خدایش کرد امیر جسم و قلب
Since the devils, notwithstanding their grossnesses, are acquainted with our inmost soul and thought and belief,
چون شیاطین با غلیظیهای خویش ** واقف‌اند از سر ما و فکر و کیش
(And) have a passage (means of penetrating) stealthily within, (so that) we are overthrown by their thievish practices,1785
مسلکی دارند دزدیده درون ** ما ز دزدیهای ایشان سرنگون
(And since) they continually inflict a (great) derangement and damage (upon us), for they are masters of the (interior) tunnel and window-slit—
دم به دم خبط و زیانی می‌کنند ** صاحب نقب و شکاف روزنند
Why, then, should the illuminated spirits in the world be unaware of our hidden state?
پس چرا جان‌های روشن در جهان ** بی‌خبر باشند از حال نهان
Have the spirits that pitched their tent on Heaven become inferior to the devils in respect of permeation (the power of insinuating themselves into our hearts)?
در سرایت کمتر از دیوان شدند ** روحها که خیمه بر گردون زدند