بخش 76 - حکمت نظر کردن در چارق و پوستین کی فلینظر الانسان مم خلق

Bring back (to my mind) the story of Ayáz's love; for ’tis a treasure full of mystery.

Every day he is going into the uppermost chamber to see his rustic shoon and sheepskin jacket,

Because (self-)existence produces grievous intoxication: it removes intelligence from the head and reverence from the heart.

From this ambush this same intoxication of (self-)existence waylaid a hundred thousand generations of old.

By this (self-)existence an ‘Azázíl was made to be Iblís, saying, “Why should Adam become lord over me?

I too am noble and nobly-born: I am capable of receiving and ready for (receiving) a hundred excellences.

In excellence I am inferior to none, that I should stand before my enemy to do him service.

I am born of fire, he of mud: what is the position (rank) of mud compared with fire?

Where was he in the period when I was the Prince of the World and the glory of Time?”