- And redeem them from envy, O Gracious One, lest from envy they be devils accursed. 1200
- وز حسودی بازشان خر ای کریم ** تا نباشند از حسد دیو رجیم
- How do the vulgar burn with envy for the fleeting happiness of riches and (pleasures of) the body!
- در نعیم فانی مال و جسد ** چون همیسوزند عامه از حسد
- Behold the kings, how they lead armies (to battle) and slay their own kinsmen because of envy.
- پادشاهان بین که لشکر میکشند ** از حسد خویشان خود را میکشند
- The lovers of filthy dolls (darlings) have sought each other's blood and life.
- عاشقان لعبتان پر قذر ** کرده قصد خون و جان همدگر
- Read Wís and Rámín and Khusraw and Shírín: (you will see) what those fools did because of envy.
- ویس و رامین خسرو و شیرین بخوان ** که چه کردند از حسد آن ابلهان
- (You will see) that the lover perished and the beloved too: they are naught and their passion also is naught. 1205
- که فنا شد عاشق و معشوق نیز ** هم نه چیزند و هواشان هم نه چیز
- Holy is the God who brings non-existence into collision with itself and makes non-existence to be in love with non-existence.
- پاک الهی که عدم بر هم زند ** مر عدم را بر عدم عاشق کند
- Envies arise in the heart that is no (real) heart: thus doth Being subject not being to compulsion.
- در دل نهدل حسدها سر کند ** نیست را هست این چنین مضطر کند
- These women, who are kinder than all (other creatures)—(even amongst them) two fellow-wives devour each other from envy,
- این زنانی کز همه مشفقتراند ** از حسد دو ضره خود را میخورند
- So that (you may judge) in what degree of envy are the men who indeed are stony-hearted.
- تا که مردانی که خود سنگیندلند ** از حسد تا در کدامین منزلند