- The Earth is entitled “the Abode of delusion” because she draws back her foot (and deserts you) on the day of passage.
- زان لقب شد خاک را دار الغرور ** کو کشد پا را سپس یوم العبور
- Before that (time) she was running right and left, saying, “I will take away thy sorrow”; but she never took anything away.
- پیش از آن بر راست و بر چپ می‌دوید ** که بچینم درد تو چیزی نچید
- In the hour of anxieties she would say to you, “May pain be far from thee, and (may) ten mountains (stand) between (pain and thee)!”
- او بگفتی مر ترا وقت غمان ** دور از تو رنج و ده که در میان
- When the army of Pain arrives, she holds her breath: she will not even say, “I have seen (and been acquainted with) thee.”
- چون سپاه رنج آمد بست دم ** خود نمی‌گوید ترا من دیده‌ام
- God made a parable concerning the Devil on this wise: “He leads you into battle by his cunning tricks, 3610
- حق پی شیطان بدین سان زد مثل ** که ترا در رزم آرد با حیل
- Saying, ‘I will give thee help, I am beside thee, I will run before thee in the perils (of war);
- که ترا یاری دهم من با توم ** در خطرها پیش تو من می‌دوم
- I will be thy shield amidst the arrows of khadang wood, I will be thy refuge in the hour of distress;
- اسپرت باشم گه تیر خدنگ ** مخلص تو باشم اندر وقت تنگ
- I will sacrifice my life for thee in raising thee to thy feet. Thou art a Rustam, a lion: come on, be manful!’”
- جان فدای تو کنم در انتعاش ** رستمی شیری هلا مردانه باش
- By means of these wiles that bag of deceit and cunning and craft leads him (whom he makes his dupe) to infidelity.
- سوی کفرش آورد زین عشوه‌ها ** آن جوال خدعه و مکر و دها
- As soon as he sets foot (therein) and falls into the moat (of fire), he (the Devil) opens his lips with a loud ha, ha. 3615
- چون قدم بنهاد در خندق فتاد ** او به قاهاقاه خنده لب گشاد