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  • Lest my sword should become useful to him; lest my dagger should become hurtful to me.
  • تا نگردد تیغ من او را کمال  ** تا نگردد خنجرم بر من وبال 

  • I will continue to flee as long as my veins are running, (but) how should it be easy to escape from one's self?
  • می‌گریزم تا رگم جنبان بود  ** کی فرار از خویشتن آسان بود 

  • He who is in flight from another obtains rest when he has been separated from him (the pursuer).
  • آنک از غیری بود او را فرار  ** چون ازو ببرید گیرد او قرار 

  • I, who am the adversary (of myself), ’tis I that am in flight (from myself): rising and departing is my occupation for ever. 670
  • من که خصمم هم منم اندر گریز  ** تا ابد کار من آمد خیزخیز 

  • He whose adversary is his own shadow is not safe either in India or Khutan.
  • نه به هندست آمن و نه در ختن  ** آنک خصم اوست سایه‌ی خویشتن 

  • Description of the selfless ones who have become safe from their own vices and virtues; for they are naughted in the everlastingness of God, like stars which are naughted (vanish) in the Sun during the daytime; and he who is naughted hath no fear of bane and (is free from) danger.
  • در صفت آن بی‌خودان کی از شر خود و هنر خود آمن شده‌اند کی فانی‌اند در بقای حق هم‌چون ستارگان کی فانی‌اند روز در آفتاب و فانی را خوف آفت و خطر نباشد 

  • When, through (spiritual) poverty, faná (self-naughting) graces him (such a one), he becomes shadowless like Mohammed.
  • چون فناش از فقر پیرایه شود  ** او محمدوار بی‌سایه شود 

  • Faná graced (the Prophet who said) ‘Poverty is my pride’: he became shadowless like the flame of a candle.
  • فقر فخری را فنا پیرایه شد  ** چون زبانه‌ی شمع او بی‌سایه شد 

  • (When) the candle has become entirely flame from head to foot, the shadow hath no passage (way of approach) around it.
  • شمع جمله شد زبانه پا و سر  ** سایه را نبود بگرد او گذر 

  • The wax (candle) fled from itself and from the shadow into the radiance for the sake of Him who moulded the candle. 675
  • موم از خویش و ز سایه در گریخت  ** در شعاع از بهر او کی شمع ریخت 

  • He said, ‘I moulded thee for the sake of faná (self-naughting).’ It replied, ‘I accordingly took refuge in faná.’
  • گفت او بهر فنایت ریختم  ** گفت من هم در فنا بگریختم