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  • حق آن شه که ترا صاف آفرید ** کرد چندان مشعله در تو پدید
  • By the truth of that King who created thee pure and displayed so many cressets in thee,

  • آن چنان معمور و باقی داشتت ** تا که دهری از ازل پنداشتت‏
  • Who hath kept thee so flourishing and lasting that the materialist hath thought thee (existent) from eternity.

  • شکر دانستیم آغاز ترا ** انبیا گفتند آن راز ترا
  • Thanks (to God), we have come to know thy beginning: the prophets have told that secret of thine.

  • آدمی داند که خانه حادث است ** عنکبوتی نه که در وی عابث است‏ 2320
  • A man knows that a house is made (at some time or other); the spider which plays idly in it (knows) not (this).

  • پشه کی داند که این باغ از کی است ** کاو بهاران زاد و مرگش در دی است‏
  • How should the gnat know of what date this garden is?––for ‘twas born in spring, and its death is in the (following) winter.

  • کرم کاندر چوب زاید سست حال ** کی بداند چوب را وقت نهال‏
  • The worm that is born miserably in (dry) wood––how should it know the wood at the time when it was a (sappy) shoot?

  • ور بداند کرم از ماهیتش ** عقل باشد کرم باشد صورتش‏
  • And if the worm should know (this), it would be intellect in its essential substance; the worm would be (only) its (outward) form.

  • عقل خود را می‏نماید رنگها ** چون پری دور است از آن فرسنگ‏ها
  • Intellect shows itself (in many) guises, (but) like the Jinn is leagues removed from them (in its real nature).

  • از ملک بالاست چه جای پری ** تو مگس پری به پستی می‏پری‏ 2325
  • It is above the angels––what occasion is there for (comparing it with) the Jinn? (But) you have the wings of a gnat, you are flying downwards.

  • گر چه عقلت سوی بالا می‏پرد ** مرغ تقلیدت به پستی می‏چرد
  • Although your intellect is flying upward, the bird of your conventional notions is feeding below.