The sword is for him who has a (high and proud) neck; no blow falls on the shadow that is thrown (flat upon the ground).
تیغ بهر اوست کو را گردنیست ** سایه که افکندست بر وی زخم نیست
Eminence is naphtha and fire, O misguided one: O brother, how (why) art thou going into the fire?2760
مهتری نفطست و آتش ای غوی ** ای برادر چون بر آذر می‌روی
How should anything that is level with the earth become a target for arrows? Consider!
هر چه او هموار باشد با زمین ** تیرها را کی هدف گردد ببین
(But if) it raise its head from the earth, then, like targets, it will suffer blows irremediable.
سر بر آرد از زمین آنگاه او ** چون هدفها زخم یابد بی رفو
This egoism is the ladder of (climbed by) the creatures (of God): they must fall from this ladder in the end.
نردبان خالق این ما و منیست ** عاقبت زین نردبان افتادنیست
The higher any one goes, the more foolish he is, for his bones will be worse broken.
هر که بالاتر رود ابله‌ترست ** که استخوان او بتر خواهد شکست
This is (constitutes) the derivatives (of the subject), and its fundamental principles are that to exalt one’s self is (to claim) copartnership with God.2765
این فروعست و اصولش آن بود ** که ترفع شرکت یزدان بود
Unless thou hast died and become living through Him, thou art an enemy seeking to reign in copartnership (with Him)
چون نمردی و نگشتی زنده زو ** یاغیی باشی به شرکت ملک‌جو
When thou hast become living through Him, that (which thou hast become) is in sooth He: it is absolute Unity; how is it co partnership?
چون بدو زنده شدی آن خود ویست ** وحدت محضست آن شرکت کیست
Seek the explanation of this in the mirror of (devotional) works, for thou wilt not gain the understanding of it from speech and discourse.
شرح این در آینه‌ی اعمال جو ** که نیابی فهم آن از گفت و گو