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534-543

  • Who is the ox that you should become his beard? What is earth that you should become its stubble?
  • گاو که بود تا تو ریش او شوی ** خاک چه بود تا حشیش او شوی‌‌
  • When a woman became pale-faced (ashamed) of (her) wickedness, God metamorphosed her and made her Zuhra (the planet Venus). 535
  • چون زنی از کار بد شد روی زرد ** مسخ کرد او را خدا و زهره کرد
  • To make a woman Zuhra was metamorphosis: is it not metamorphosis to become earth and clay, O contumacious one?
  • عورتی را زهره کردن مسخ بود ** خاک و گل گشتن نه مسخ است ای عنود
  • Your spirit was bearing you towards the highest sphere (of heaven): you went towards the water and the clay amongst the lowest (of the low).
  • روح می‌‌بردت سوی چرخ برین ** سوی آب و گل شدی در اسفلین‌‌
  • By this fall you metamorphosed yourself from that (state of) existence which was the envy of the (spiritual) intelligences.
  • خویشتن را مسخ کردی زین سفول ** ز آن وجودی که بد آن رشک عقول‌‌
  • Consider, then, how is (what is the character of) this metamorphosis: compared with that metamorphosis (of the woman) this (which you have suffered) is exceedingly vile.
  • پس ببین کین مسخ کردن چون بود ** پیش آن مسخ این به غایت دون بود
  • You urged the steed of ambition towards the stars: you did not acknowledge Adam who was worshipped (by the angels). 540
  • اسب همت سوی اختر تاختی ** آدم مسجود را نشناختی‌‌
  • After all, you are a son of Adam. O degenerate! how long will you regard lowness as nobility?
  • آخر آدم زاده‌‌ای ای ناخلف ** چند پنداری تو پستی را شرف‌‌
  • How long will you say, “I will conquer a whole world, I will make this world full of myself”?
  • چند گویی من بگیرم عالمی ** این جهان را پر کنم از خود همی‌‌
  • If the world should be filled with snow from end to end, the glow of the sun would melt it with a single look.
  • گر جهان پر برف گردد سربه‌‌سر ** تاب خور بگدازدش با یک نظر