- Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?
- از پدر یابید آن ملک ای عجب ** تا غرورش داد ظلمات نسب
- (Nay); if father and mother were an obstacle (cause of delusion) to others, he derived the jewels in his pocket from Me.” 4855
- دیگران را گر ام و اب شد حجاب ** او ز ما یابید گوهرها به جیب
- Assuredly thy wicked carnal soul is a rapacious wolf: why art thou laying the blame on every comrade (neighbour)?
- گرگ درندهست نفس بد یقین ** چه بهانه مینهی بر هر قرین
- In its misguidedness the foul disbelieving unconscionable carnal soul is (like) a cap for (concealing the diseased condition of) a hundred baldpates.
- در ضلالت هست صد کل را کله ** نفس زشت کفرناک پر سفه
- For this reason, O poor slave (of God), I am always saying, “Do not remove the collar from the neck of the cur.”
- زین سبب میگویم این بندهی فقیر ** سلسله از گردن سگ برمگیر
- (Even) if this cur has become a teacher, it is a cur still: be thou one whose carnal soul is abased, for it is evil-natured.
- گر معلم گشت این سگ هم سگست ** باش ذلت نفسه کو بدرگست
- Thou wilt perform thy bounden duty if thou go round about (one like) Suhayl (Canopus, and absorb his light) as Tá’if hide (absorbs the rays), 4860
- فرض میآری به جا گر طایفی ** بر سهیلی چون ادیم طایفی
- In order that Suhayl may redeem thee from the vices of the skin (corporeality), and that thou mayst fit the foot of the Beloved like a boot.
- تا سهیلت وا خرد از شر پوست ** تا شوی چون موزهای همپای دوست
- The entire Qur’án is a description of the viciousness of carnal souls: look into the Holy Book! Where is thine eye?
- جمله قرآن شرح خبث نفسهاست ** بنگر اندر مصحف آن چشمت کجاست
- (’Tis) an account of the carnal soul of people like ‘Ád, which (whenever it) found weapons took the utmost pains to combat the prophets.
- ذکر نفس عادیان کالت بیافت ** در قتال انبیا مو میشکافت