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5
40-49

  • The four immaterial birds which infest the Way have made their home in the hearts of the people. 40
  • Since in this epoch thou, O Vicegerent of God, art the commander of all righteous hearts,
  • Cut off the heads of these four live birds and make everlasting the creatures that are not enduring for ever.
  • There is the duck and the peacock and the crow and the cock: these are a parable of the four (evil) dispositions in (human) souls.
  • The duck is greed, and the cock is lust; eminence is like the peacock, and the crow is (worldly) desire.
  • His (the crow's) object of desire is this, that he forms hopes and wishes for immortality or long life. 45
  • The duck is greed, for her bill is always in the ground, seeking what is buried in the wet and dry.
  • That gullet (of hers) is never idle for a moment: it hearkens unto naught of the (Divine) ordinance save the command “Eat ye!”
  • ’Tis like the looter who digs up (ravages) the house and very quickly fills his bag,
  • Cramming into the bag good and bad (indifferently), single pearls and chickpeas,