واقعات ار باز گویم یک به یک ** پس یقین گردد صفا بر اهل شک
If I should relate the visions, one by one, then the purity (of the Companions) would become certain to them that doubt;
لیک میترسم ز کشف رازشان ** نازنینانند و زیبد نازشان
But I am afraid of revealing their mystery: they are the disdainful loved ones (of God), and disdain beseems them.
شرع بیتقلید میپذرفتهاند ** بیمحک آن نقد را بگرفتهاند
They have received the (religious) Law (directly from God) without mechanical imitation (of others): they have taken that (unadulterated) coin without (applying) the touchstone.
حکمت قرآن چو ضالهی مومن است ** هر کسی در ضالهی خود موقن است2910
The Wisdom of the Qur’án is like the true believer's stray camel: every one has certain (intuitive) knowledge of his own stray.
قصهی آن شخص که اشتر ضالهی خود میجست و میپرسید
Story of the person who was seeking after his stray camel and inquiring about it.
اشتری گم کردی و جستیش چست ** چون بیابی چون ندانی کان تست
(If) you have lost a camel and sought it busily, how should you not know,when you find it, that it is yours?
ضاله چه بود ناقهای گم کردهای ** از کفت بگریخته در پردهای
What is the stray? You have lost a she-camel: (she has) fled from your herd into a veil (of concealment).
آمده در بار کردن کاروان ** اشتر تو ز آن میان گشته نهان
The caravaneers have begun to load, (but) your camel has disappeared from the midst (of the caravan).
میدوی این سو و آن سو خشک لب ** کاروان شد دور و نزدیک است شب
You are running to and fro with parched lips; the caravan is (now) far away, and night is near.
رخت مانده بر زمین در راه خوف ** تو پی اشتر دوان گشته به طوف2915
Your baggage is left on the ground, (lying) on the road of peril, (whilst) you are running about in search of the camel,
کای مسلمانان که دیده ست اشتری ** جسته بیرون بامداد از آخوری
Crying, “O Moslems, who has seen a camel which this morning escaped from a stable?