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  • برجهید آن کشته ز آسیبش ز جا ** در خطاب اضربوه بعضها
  • At its touch the murdered man sprang up from his place—at the words spoken (by God), Strike him with part of her.
  • یا کرامی اذبحوا هذا البقر ** ان اردتم حشر ارواح النظر 3900
  • O my noble (friends), slaughter this cow (the fleshly soul), if ye desire to raise to life the spirits (possessed) of insight.
  • از جمادی مردم و نامی شدم ** وز نما مردم به حیوان برزدم
  • I died to the inorganic state and became endowed with growth, and (then) I died to (vegetable) growth and attained to the animal.
  • مردم از حیوانی و آدم شدم ** پس چه ترسم کی ز مردن کم شدم
  • I died from animality and became Adam (man): why, then, should I fear? When have I become less by dying?
  • حمله‌ی دیگر بمیرم از بشر ** تا بر آرم از ملایک پر و سر
  • At the next remove I shall die to man, that I may soar and lift up my head amongst the angels;
  • وز ملک هم بایدم جستن ز جو ** کل شیء هالک الا وجهه
  • And I must escape even from (the state of) the angel:everything is perishing except His Face.
  • بار دیگر از ملک قربان شوم ** آنچ اندر وهم ناید آن شوم 3905
  • Once more I shall be sacrificed and die to the angel: I shall become that which enters not into the imagination.
  • پس عدم گردم عدم چون ارغنون ** گویدم که انا الیه راجعون
  • Then I shall become non-existence: non-existence saith to me, (in tones loud) as an organ, Verily, unto Him shall we return.
  • مرگ دان آنک اتفاق امتست ** کاب حیوانی نهان در ظلمتست
  • Know death to be (the thing signified by) what the (Mohammedan) community are agreed upon, namely, that the Water of Life is hidden in the (Land of) Darkness.
  • همچو نیلوفر برو زین طرف جو ** همچو مستسقی حریص و مرگ‌جو
  • Grow from this river-bank, like the water-lily, greedy and craving for death as the sufferer from dropsy.