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1476-1485

  • نور باید پاک از تقلید و غول ** تا شناسد مرد را بی‏فعل و قول‏
  • Light is needed, (a light) purged of cant and noxiousness, that he may know a man without (the evidence of) deed or word,

  • در رود در قلب او از راه عقل ** نقد او بیند نباشد بند نقل‏
  • And enter into his heart by way of the intellect, and behold his real state and not be confined to tradition.

  • بندگان خاص علام الغیوب ** در جهان جان جواسیس القلوب‏
  • The chosen servants of (God) the Knower of things unseen are, in the spiritual world, the spies on hearts.

  • در درون دل در آید چون خیال ** پیش او مکشوف باشد سر حال‏
  • He (such a one) enters within the heart like a fancy: the mystery of the (real) state is unveiled to him.

  • در تن گنجشک چه بود برگ و ساز ** که شود پوشیده آن بر عقل باز 1480
  • In the body of the sparrow what power and faculty is there that is hidden from the intellect of the falcon?

  • آن که واقف گشت بر اسرار هو ** سر مخلوقات چه بود پیش او
  • He who has become acquainted with the secrets of Hú (God), what to him is the secret (inmost consciousness) of created beings?

  • آن که بر افلاک رفتارش بود ** بر زمین رفتن چه دشوارش بود
  • He whose walk is on the spheres, how should it be hard for him to walk on the earth?

  • در کف داود کاهن گشت موم ** موم چه بود در کف او ای ظلوم‏
  • Since iron became wax in the hand of David, what should wax be in his hand, O man of iniquity?

  • بود لقمان بنده شکلی خواجه‏ای ** بندگی بر ظاهرش دیباجه‏ای‏
  • Luqmán was a slave in appearance, a master (in reality): servitude was (only) a frontispiece on his outside.

  • چون رود خواجه به جای ناشناس ** در غلام خویش پوشاند لباس‏ 1485
  • When the master goes to a place where he is not known, he puts (his own) clothes on his slave.