- 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
- If the Law had not exercised a gracious spell (over them), every one would have torn the body of his rival to pieces. 1210
- گر نکردی شرع افسونی لطیف ** بر دریدی هر کسی جسم حریف
- The Law makes a plan for repelling evil: it puts the demon into the bottle of (legal) proof—
- شرع بهر دفع شر رایی زند ** دیو را در شیشه‌ی حجت کند