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  • واصلان چون غرق ذاتند ای پسر ** کی کنند اندر صفات او نظر
  • Inasmuch as those united (with God) are absorbed in the Essence, O son, how should they look upon His Attributes?

  • چون که اندر قعر جو باشد سرت ** کی به رنگ آب افتد منظرت‏
  • When your head is at the bottom of the river, how will your eye fall on the colour of the water?

  • ور به رنگ آب باز آیی ز قعر ** پس پلاسی بستدی دادی تو شعر 2815
  • And if you come back from the bottom to the colour of the water, then you have received a coarse woollen garment and given (fine) fur (in exchange).

  • طاعت عامه گناه خاصگان ** وصلت عامه حجاب خاص دان‏
  • The piety of the vulgar is sin in the elect; the unitive state of the vulgar is a veil in the elect.

  • مر وزیری را کند شه محتسب ** شه عدوی او بود نبود محب‏
  • If the king make a vizier a police inspector, the king is his enemy, he is not his friend.

  • هم گناهی کرده باشد آن وزیر ** بی‏سبب نبود تغیر ناگزیر
  • Also, that vizier will have committed some offence: necessarily change (for the worse) is not (does not occur) without cause.

  • آن که ز اول محتسب بد خود و را ** بخت و روزی آن بده ست از ابتدا
  • He that has been a police inspector from the first—to him that (office) has been fortune and livelihood from the beginning;

  • لیک آن کاول وزیر شه بده ست ** محتسب کردن سبب فعل بد است‏ 2820
  • But he that was first the king's vizier—evil-doing is the cause of making him a police inspector.

  • چون ترا شه ز آستانه پیش خواند ** باز سوی آستانه باز راند
  • When the King has called you from the threshold into His presence, and again has driven you back to the threshold,

  • تو یقین می‏دان که جرمی کرده‏ای ** جبر را از جهل پیش آورده‏ای‏
  • Know for sure that you have committed a sin and in folly have brought forward (pleaded) compulsion (as the cause),