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  • Kill your fleshly soul and make the world (spiritually) alive; it (your fleshly soul) has killed its master: make it (your) slave.
  • نفس خود را کش جهانی را زنده کن ** خواجه را کشتست او را بنده کن

  • Hark! your fleshly soul is (as) the claimant (of compensation) for the cow: it has made itself a master and thief. 2505
  • مدعی گاو نفس تست هین ** خویشتن را خواجه کردست و مهین

  • The slayer of the cow is your intellect (rational soul): go, do not be offended with the’ slayer of the cow, (which is) your body.
  • آن کشنده‌ی گاو عقل تست رو ** بر کشنده گاو تن منکر مشو

  • The intellect is a captive and craves of God daily bread (won) without toil, and bounty (placed before it) on a tray.
  • عقل اسیرست و همی خواهد ز حق ** روزیی بی رنج و نعمت بر طبق

  • Upon what does its daily bread (won) without toil depend? Upon its killing the cow is the origin of (all) evil
  • روزی بی رنج او موقوف چیست ** آنک بکشد گاو را کاصل بدیست

  • The fleshly soul says, “How shouldst thou kill my ‘cow’?-because the “cow” of the fleshly soul is the (outward) form of the body.
  • نفس گوید چون کشی تو گاو من ** زانک گاو نفس باشد نقش تن

  • The intellect, (typified by) the master’s son, is left destitute, (while) the fleshly soul, (typified by) the murderer, has become a master and leader. 2510
  • خواجه‌زاده‌ی عقل مانده بی‌نوا ** نفس خونی خواجه گشت و پیشوا

  • Do you know what is the daily bread (won) without toil? It is the food of spirits and the daily bread of the prophet.
  • روزی بی‌رنج می‌دانی که چیست ** قوت ارواحست و ارزاق نبیست

  • But it depends upon sacrificing the cow: know (that) the (spiritual) treasure (is found) in (sacrifice of) the cow, O you who dig in (holes and) corners!
  • لیک موقوفست بر قربان گاو ** گنج اندر گاو دان ای کنج‌کاو

  • Yesternight I ate something; otherwise, I would have given the reins entirely into the hand of your understanding’.
  • دوش چیزی خورده‌ام ور نه تمام ** دادمی در دست فهم تو زمام