- Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot breath hath made kings captive.
- هین فسون گرم دارد گنده پیر ** کرده شاهان را دم گرمش اسیر
- She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery. 3195
- در درون سینه نفاثات اوست ** عقده‌های سحر را اثبات اوست
- The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning woman: ’tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;
- ساحره‌ی دنیا قوی دانا زنیست ** حل سحر او به پای عامه نیست
- And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how should God have sent the prophets?
- ور گشادی عقد او را عقلها ** انبیا را کی فرستادی خدا
- Hark, seek one whose breath is pure, a looser of knots, one who knows the mystery of God doeth whatso He willeth.
- هین طلب کن خوش‌دمی عقده‌گشا ** رازدان یفعل الله ما یشا
- She (the World) hath imprisoned thee, like a fish, in her net: the prince remained (there) one year, and thou sixty.
- هم‌چو ماهی بسته است او به شست ** شاه زاده ماند سالی و تو شصت
- From (being enmeshed in) her net thou art in tribulation sixty years: neither art thou happy nor (dost thou walk) in the way of the Sunna. 3200
- شصت سال از شست او در محنتی ** نه خوشی نه بر طریق سنتی
- Thou art a miserable unrighteous man: neither is thy worldly life good (happy) nor art thou delivered from guilt and sins.
- فاسقی بدبخت نه دنیات خوب ** نه رهیده از وبال و از ذنوب
- Her (the World's) breathing hath made these knots tight: seek, then, the breathing of the unique Creator,
- نفخ او این عقده‌ها را سخت کرد ** پس طلب کن نفخه‌ی خلاق فرد
- In order that “I breathed of My spirit into him” may deliver thee from this (sorcery) and say (to thee), “Come higher!”
- تا نفخت فیه من روحی ترا ** وا رهاند زین و گوید برتر آ