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چشم اسب از چشم شه رهبر بود ** چشم او بیچشم شه مضطر بود
- The horse's eye finds the way from the King's eye: without the King's eye its eye is in desperate plight.
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چشم اسبان جز گیاه و جز چرا ** هر کجا خوانی بگوید نه چرا
- The eye of horses, whithersoever you call it except to grass and pasture, says, “Nay, why (should we go)?”
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نور حق بر نور حس راکب شود ** آن گهی جان سوی حق راغب شود 1290
- The Light of God mounts (as a rider) on the sensuous eye, and then the soul yearns after God.
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اسب بیراکب چه داند رسم راه ** شاه باید تا بداند شاه راه
- How should the riderless horse know the marks of the road? The King is needed (to ride it) in order that it may know the King's road.
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سوی حسی رو که نورش راکب است ** حس را آن نور نیکو صاحب است
- Go towards a sense on which the Light is riding: that Light is a good companion for the sense.
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نور حس را نور حق تزیین بود ** معنی نور علی نور این بود
- The Light of God is an ornament to the light of sense: this is the meaning of light upon light.
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نور حسی میکشد سوی ثری ** نور حقش میبرد سوی علی
- The light of sense draws (a man) towards earth; the Light of God bears him aloft,
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ز انکه محسوسات دونتر عالمی است ** نور حق دریا و حس چون شبنمی است 1295
- Because sensible things are a lower world: the Light of God is (as) the sea, and the sense as a dew-drop.
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لیک پیدا نیست آن راکب بر او ** جز به آثار و به گفتار نکو
- But that which rides on it (on the sense) is not manifested save by good effects and words.
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نور حسی کاو غلیظ است و گران ** هست پنهان در سواد دیدهگان
- The sensuous light, which is gross and heavy, is hidden in the black of the eyes.