دست و پابریدهای هزارپایی بکُشت. صاحبدلی بر او گذر کرد و گفت: سُبْحٰانَالله! با هزار پایْ که داشت چون اجلش فرا رسید از بیدستوپایی گریختن نتوانست.
چو آید ز پی دشمنِ جانستان
ببندد اجل پایِ اسبِ دوان
در آن دم که دشمن پیاپی رسید
کمانِ کیانی نشاید کشید
A man whose hands and feet had been amputated killed a millipede and a pious passer-by exclaimed: ‘Praised be Allah! In spite of the thousand feet he possessed he could not escape from a man without hands and feet when his fate had overtaken him.’
When the life-taking foe comes in the rear Fate ties the legs of a running man. At the moment when the enemy has slowly arrived It is useless to draw the Kayanian bow.