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  • ساعد شه مسکن این باز باد ** تا ابد بر خلق این در باز باد
  • May this falcon's resting-place be the fore-arm of the King! May this gate (to the Truth) be open to (all) the people unto everlasting!

  • آفت این در هوا و شهوت است ** ور نه اینجا شربت اندر شربت است‏ 10
  • The bane of this gate is sensuality and lust; else, draught on draught (of spiritual knowledge) is (to be found) here.

  • این دهان بر بند تا بینی عیان ** چشم بند آن جهان حلق و دهان‏
  • Close this mouth that you may see plainly: gullet and mouth are the eye-bandage (which makes you blind) to yonder world.

  • ای دهان تو خود دهانه‏ی دوزخی ** وی جهان تو بر مثال برزخی‏
  • O mouth, verily thou art the mouth of Hell; and, O world, thou art like the intermediate state.

  • نور باقی پهلوی دنیای دون ** شیر صافی پهلوی جوهای خون‏
  • The everlasting light is beside this low world, the pure milk is beside rivers of blood.

  • چون در او گامی زنی بی‏احتیاط ** شیر تو خون می‏شود از اختلاط
  • When you take one step in it (the world) without precaution, your milk will be turned to blood through commixture.

  • یک قدم زد آدم اندر ذوق نفس ** شد فراق صدر جنت طوق نفس‏ 15
  • Adam took one step in sensual pleasure: separation from his high place in Paradise became a collar on the neck of his (fleshly) soul.

  • همچو دیو از وی فرشته می‏گریخت ** بهر نانی چند آب چشم ریخت‏
  • The angels were fleeing from him as from a devil: how many tears did he shed for the sake of a single loaf!

  • گر چه یک مو بد گنه کاو جسته بود ** لیک آن مو در دو دیده رسته بود
  • Although the sin which he had compassed was (but) a hair, yet that hair had grown in his eyes.

  • بود آدم دیده‏ی نور قدیم ** موی در دیده بود کوه عظیم‏
  • Adam was the eye of the Eternal Light: a hair in the eye is a great mountain.