O you who fancy that (indulgence of) desire is your (right) medicine and inflict slaps on the weak,1340
ای هوا را طب خود پنداشته ** بر ضعیفان صفع را بگماشته
He who told you that this is the cure (for your disease) mocked at you: ’tis he that guided Adam to the wheat,
بر تو خندید آنک گفتت این دواست ** اوست که آدم را به گندم رهنماست
Saying, “O ye twain who implore help, eat this grain as a remedy that ye may abide (in Paradise) for ever.”
که خورید این دانه او دو مستعین ** بهر دارو تا تکونا خالدین
He caused him (Adam) to stumble and gave him a slap on the nape: that slap recoiled and became a (penal) retribution for him (the Devil).
اوش لغزانید و او را زد قفا ** آن قفا وا گشت و گشت این را جزا
He caused him (Adam) to stumble terribly in backsliding, but God was his (Adam's) support and helper.
اوش لغزانید سخت اندر زلق ** لیک پشت و دستگیرش بود حق
Adam was (like) a mountain: (even) if he was filled with serpents (of sin), he is a mine of the antidote (to snake-poison) and was unhurt.1345
کوه بود آدم اگر پر مار شد ** کان تریاقست و بی‌اضرار شد
You, who do not possess an atom of the antidote, why are you deluded by your (hope of) deliverance?
تو که تریاقی نداری ذره‌ای ** از خلاص خود چرایی غره‌ای
Where, in your case, is trust in God like (the trust of) Khalíl (Abraham), and whence will you get the (Divine) grace like (that bestowed upon) Kalím (Moses),
آن توکل کو خلیلانه ترا ** وآن کرامت چون کلیمت از کجا
So that your knife should not cut (the throat of) Ismá‘íl (Ishmael) and that you should make the depths of the Nile a (dry) highway?
تا نبرد تیغت اسمعیل را ** تا کنی شه‌راه قعر نیل را
If a blessed one fell from the minaret (and) was saved by the wind filling his raiment,
گر سعیدی از مناره اوفتید ** بادش اندر جامه افتاد و رهید