’Tis even so: when the true believer has found the way towards the Light of God, he averts his face from the darkness (of this world).
هم‌چنان باشد چو مومن راه یافت ** سوی نور حق ز ظلمت روی تافت
Explaining that the prince is Man, the vicegerent of God, and that his father is Adam, the chosen one, the vicegerent of God, he to whom the angels bowed in worship; and that the old hag of Kábul is the World which separated Man from his Father by sorcery, while the prophets and saints are (like) the physician who applied the remedy.
در بیان آنک شه‌زاده آدمی بچه است خلیفه‌ی خداست پدرش آدم صفی خلیفه‌ی حق مسجود ملایک و آن کمپیر کابلی دنیاست کی آدمی‌بچه را از پدر ببرید به سحر و انبیا و اولیا آن طبیب تدارک کننده
O brother, know that thou art the prince born anew in the old world.
ای برادر دانک شه‌زاده توی ** در جهان کهنه زاده از نوی
The witch of Kábul is this World which made men captive to colour and perfume.3190
کابلی جادو این دنیاست کو ** کرد مردان را اسیر رنگ و بو
Since she hath cast thee into this polluted stream, continually recite and utter (the words), Say, I take refuge.
چون در افکندت دریغ آلوده روذ ** دم به دم می‌خوان و می‌دم قل اعوذ
In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say “I take refuge.”
تا رهی زین جادوی و زین قلق ** استعاذت خواه از رب الفلق
The Prophet called this world of thine an enchantress because through her spells she lodged mankind in the pit.
زان نبی دنیات را سحاره خواند ** کو به افسون خلق را در چه نشاند
Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot breath hath made kings captive.
هین فسون گرم دارد گنده پیر ** کرده شاهان را دم گرمش اسیر
She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery.3195
در درون سینه نفاثات اوست ** عقده‌های سحر را اثبات اوست
The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning woman: ’tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;
ساحره‌ی دنیا قوی دانا زنیست ** حل سحر او به پای عامه نیست
And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how should God have sent the prophets?
ور گشادی عقد او را عقلها ** انبیا را کی فرستادی خدا