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  • زان کله مر چشم بازان را سدست ** که همه میلش سوی جنس خودست
  • The hood is (placed as) a blind on the eyes of falcons because its (the falcon's) whole desire is for its own kind.
  • چون برید از جنس با شه گشت یار ** بر گشاید چشم او را بازدار
  • When it has been severed from its kind, it associates with the king: the falconer unveils its eye.
  • راند دیوان را حق از مرصاد خویش ** عقل جزوی را ز استبداد خویش
  • God drove the devils from His place of watch, (He drove) the particular intellect from its autonomy,
  • که سری کم کن نه‌ای تو مستبد ** بلک شاگرد دلی و مستعد 3340
  • Saying, “Do not domineer: thou art not autonomous; nay, thou art the pupil of the heart and predisposed (to learn from it).
  • رو بر دل رو که تو جزو دلی ** هین که بنده‌ی پادشاه عادلی
  • Go to the heart, go, for thou art a part of the heart: take heed, for thou art a slave of the just King.”
  • بندگی او به از سلطانیست ** که انا خیر دم شیطانیست
  • To be His slave is better than being a sovereign, for “I am better” is the word of Satan.
  • فرق بین و برگزین تو ای حبیس ** بندگی آدم از کبر بلیس
  • Do thou see the distinction and pick out (choose by preference), O prisoner, the slavery of Adam from the pride of Iblís.
  • گفت آنک هست خورشید ره او ** حرف طوبی هر که ذلت نفسه
  • He who is the Sun of the Way uttered the saying, “Good (túbá) betide every one whose carnal soul is abased!”
  • سایه‌ی طوبی ببین وخوش بخسپ ** سر بنه در سایه بی‌سرکش بخسپ 3345
  • Behold the shade of Túbá (the tree in Paradise) and sleep well; lay thy head in the shade and sleep without lifting thy head (haughtily).
  • ظل ذلت نفسه خوش مضجعیست ** مستعد آن صفا و مهجعیست
  • The shade of (one) “whose carnal soul is abased” is a pleasant place for reclining: it is a (good) sleeping-place for him that is predisposed to that (spiritual) purity.