- What does any one know of me but a little—(what but) one of my thousand sins and evil deeds?
- کس چه می‌داند ز من جز اندکی ** از هزاران جرم و بد فعلم یکی
- I know, and He who draws a veil (of concealment) over me (knows) my sins and the wickedness of my conduct.
- من همی دانم و آن ستار من ** جرمها و زشتی کردار من
- At first an Iblís was my teacher; afterwards Iblís was (mere) wind in comparison with me. 2305
- اول ابلیسی مرا استاد بود ** بعد از آن ابلیس پیشم باد بود
- God saw all that (iniquity), (but) made as though He saw it not, lest I should be openly dishonoured by its exposure.
- حق بدید آن جمله را نادیده کرد ** تا نگردم در فضیحت روی‌زرد
- Moreover, (the Divine) Mercy exercised the furrier's craft on me and bestowed on me a repentance sweet as life.
- باز رحمت پوستین دوزیم کرد ** توبه‌ی شیرین چو جان روزیم کرد
- Whatever (ill deeds) I had done, it took them as not having been done; and my undone (acts of) obedience it took as having been performed.
- هر چه کردم جمله ناکرده گرفت ** طاعت ناکرده آورده گرفت
- It made me free (pure and noble) as the cypress and the lily; it made me glad of heart as fortune and felicity.
- هم‌چو سرو و سوسنم آزاد کرد ** هم‌چو بخت و دولتم دلشاد کرد
- It inscribed my name in the register of the righteous: I was one doomed to Hell; it gave me Paradise. 2310
- نام من در نامه‌ی پاکان نوشت ** دوزخی بودم ببخشیدم بهشت
- (When) I cried ‘Alas,’ my ‘Alas’ became a rope, and the rope was let down into my well.
- آه کردم چون رسن شد آه من ** گشت آویزان رسن در چاه من
- I clutched that rope and climbed out: I became glad and strong and stout and rosy.
- آن رسن بگرفتم و بیرون شدم ** شاد و زفت و فربه و گلگون شدم