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  • Keep the sun of your intelligence burning, keep your eye glistening with tears like the cloud!
  • آفتاب عقل را در سوز دار  ** چشم را چون ابر اشک‌افروز دار 

  • You must needs have a weeping eye, like the little child: do not eat the bread (of worldliness), for that bread takes away your water (spiritual excellence).
  • چشم گریان بایدت چون طفل خرد  ** کم خور آن نان را که نان آب تو برد 

  • When the body is in leaf (well-furnished), on that account by day and night the bough, (which is) the soul, is shedding its leaves and is in autumn.
  • تن چو با برگست روز و شب از آن  ** شاخ جان در برگ‌ریزست و خزان 

  • The leafage (flourishing state) of the body is the leaflessness (unprovidedness) of the soul. Be quick! You must let this (body) dwindle and that (soul) increase. 145
  • برگ تن بی‌برگی جانست زود  ** این بباید کاستن آن را فزود 

  • Lend unto God, give a loan of this leafage of the body, that in exchange a garden may grow in your heart.
  • اقرضوا الله قرض ده زین برگ تن  ** تا بروید در عوض در دل چمن 

  • Give a loan, diminish this food of your body, that there may appear the face (vision) of (that which) eye hath not seen.
  • قرض ده کم کن ازین لقمه‌ی تنت  ** تا نماید وجه لا عین رات 

  • When the body empties itself of dung, He (God) fills it with musk and glorious pearls.
  • تن ز سرگین خویش چون خالی کند  ** پر ز مشک و در اجلالی کند 

  • He (such a person) gives this filth and gets purity (in return): his body enjoys (what is signified by the words) He will purify you.
  • زین پلیدی بدهد و پاکی برد  ** از یطهرکم تن او بر خورد 

  • The Devil frightens you, saying, “Hark and hark again! You will be sorry for this and will be saddened. 150
  • دیو می‌ترساندت که هین و هین  ** زین پشیمان گردی و گردی حزین 

  • If you waste away your body in consequence of these idle whims, you will become very sorry and anxious.
  • گر گدازی زین هوسها تو بدن  ** بس پشیمان و غمین خواهی شدن 

  • Eat this, it is hot and good for your health; and drink that for your benefit and as a cure,
  • این بخور گرمست و داروی مزاج  ** وآن بیاشام از پی نفع و علاج 

  • With the intention (of acting on the principle) that (since) this body is your riding-beast that to which it is accustomed is best for it.
  • هم بدین نیت که این تن مرکبست  ** آنچ خو کردست آنش اصوبست 

  • Beware, do not alter your habit, else mischief will ensure and a hundred maladies will be produced in brain and heart.”
  • هین مگردان خو که پیش آید خلل  ** در دماغ و دل بزاید صد علل 

  • Such menaces does the vile Devil employ, and he chants a hundred spells over the people. 155
  • این چنین تهدیدها آن دیو دون  ** آرد و بر خلق خواند صد فسون 

  • He makes himself out to be a Galen (for skill) in medicine, that he may deceive your ailing soul.
  • خویش جالینوس سازد در دوا  ** تا فریبد نفس بیمار ترا 

  • “This,” says he, “is of use to you against any sorrow and pain.” He said the same thing to Adam about an ear of wheat.
  • کین ترا سودست از درد و غمی  ** گفت آدم را همین در گندمی 

  • He utters (hypocritical expressions such as) “Ah, ah” and “Alas,” while he twists your lips with the farrier's barnacle,
  • پیش آرد هیهی و هیهات را  ** وز لویشه پیچد او لبهات را 

  • As (the farrier twists) the lips of a horse when shoeing it, in order that he (the Devil) may cause an inferior (worthless) stone to appear as a ruby.
  • هم‌چو لبهای فرس و در وقت نعل  ** تا نماید سنگ کمتر را چو لعل 

  • He takes hold of your ears as (though they were) the ears of a horse, pulling you towards greed and acquisition (of worldly goods). 160
  • گوشهاات گیرد او چون گوش اسب  ** می‌کشاند سوی حرص و سوی کسب 

  • He claps on your foot a shoe of perplexity, by the pain of which you are left incapable of (advancing on) the Way.
  • بر زند بر پات نعلی ز اشتباه  ** که بمانی تو ز درد آن ز راه 

  • His shoe is that hesitation between the two works (of this world and of the world hereafter)—“Shall I do these or shall I do those?” Take heed!
  • نعل او هست آن تردد در دو کار  ** این کنم یا آن کنم هین هوش دار 

  • Do that which is chosen by the Prophet, don't do that which (only) a madman or (foolish) boy ever did.
  • آن بکن که هست مختار نبی  ** آن مکن که کرد مجنون و صبی 

  • “Paradise is encompassed”—by what is it encompassed? By things disliked, from which there comes increase of the seed sown (for the future life).
  • حفت الجنه بچه محفوف گشت  ** بالمکاره که ازو افزود کشت 

  • He (the Devil) hath a hundred spells of cunning and deceit, which would entrap (any one), even if he is (strong and wily as) a great serpent. 165
  • صد فسون دارد ز حیلت وز دغا  ** که کند در سله گر هست اژدها 

  • He (the Devil) will bind him, though he be (swift and elusive as) running water; he will make a mock of him, though he be the most learned man of the time.
  • گر بود آب روان بر بنددش  ** ور بود حبر زمان برخنددش