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  • آن سگ عالم شکار گور کرد ** وین سگ بی‏مایه قصد کور کرد
  • The knowing dog has made the onager his prey, while this worthless dog has attacked a blind man.

  • علم چون آموخت سگ رست از ضلال ** می‏کند در بیشه‏ها صید حلال‏
  • When the dog has learned the knowledge (imparted to him), he has escaped from error: he hunts lawful prey in the jungles.

  • سگ چو عالم گشت شد چالاک زحف ** سگ چو عارف گشت شد ز اصحاب کهف‏
  • When the dog has become knowing (‘álim), he marches briskly; when the dog has become a knower of God (‘árif), he becomes (as) the Men of the Cave.

  • سگ شناسا شد که میر صید کیست ** ای خدا آن نور اشناسنده چیست‏ 2365
  • The dog has come to know who is the Master of the hunt. O God, what is that knowing light?

  • کور نشناسد نه از بی‏چشمی است ** بلکه این ز آن است کز جهل است مست‏
  • (If) the blind man knows it not, ’tis not from (his) having no eye (to see); nay, ’tis because he is drunken with ignorance.

  • نیست خود بی‏چشم تر کور از زمین ** این زمین از فضل حق شد خصم بین‏
  • Truly, the blind man is not more eyeless than the earth; and this earth, by the grace of God, has become a seer of (God's) enemies.

  • نور موسی دید و موسی را نواخت ** خسف قارون کرد و قارون را شناخت‏
  • It saw the Light of Moses and showed kindness to Moses; (but) Qárún it engulfed, (for) it knew Qárún.

  • رجف کرد اندر هلاک هر دعی ** فهم کرد از حق که یا أرض ابلعی‏
  • It quaked for the destruction of every false pretender: it understood (the words that came) from God, “O earth, swallow (thy water)!”

  • خاک و آب و باد و نار با شرر ** بی‏خبر با ما و با حق با خبر 2370
  • Earth and water and air and sparking fire are unacquainted with us, but acquainted with God.

  • ما بعکس آن ز غیر حق خبیر ** بی‏خبر از حق و از چندین نذیر
  • Contrariwise, we are aware of (things) other than God, (but) unaware (heedless) of God and of so many warners (prophets).