میتواند زیست بیچشم و بصر ** فارغ است از چشم او در خاک تر3285
It is able to live without eyes and sight: in the dank earth it is independent of eyes.
جز به دزدی او برون ناید ز خاک ** تا کند خالق از آن دزدیش پاک
It never comes out from the earth but for theft, to the end that the Creator may purge it of that thievishness.
بعد از آن پر یابد و مرغی شود ** چون ملایک جانب گردون رود
After that (purification), it will get wings and become a bird, like the angels, it will go towards heaven.
هر زمان در گلشن شکر خدا ** او بر آرد همچو بلبل صد نوا
Every moment, in the rose-garden of thanksgiving to God, it will produce a hundred (sweet) notes, like the nightingale,
کای رهاننده مرا از وصف زشت ** ای کننده دوزخی را تو بهشت
Singing, “O Thou that deliverest me from evil qualities! O Thou that makest a hell Paradise!
در یکی پیهی نهی تو روشنی ** استخوانی را دهی سمع ای غنی3290
Thou puttest light in a piece of fat; Thou, O Self-sufficing One, givest (the sense of) hearing to a bone.”
چه تعلق آن معانی را به جسم ** چه تعلق فهم اشیا را به اسم
What connexion have those concepts (e.g. sight and hearing) with the body? What connexion has the apprehension of things with (their) names?
لفظ چون وکرست و معنی طایر است ** جسم جوی و روح آب سایر است
The word is like the nest, and the meaning is the bird: the body is the riverbed, and the spirit is the rolling water.
او روان است و تو گویی واقف است ** او دوان است و تو گویی عاکف است
It is moving, and you say it is standing: it is running, and you say it is keeping still.
گر نبینی سیر آب از خاکها ** چیست بر وی نو به نو خاشاکها
If you see not the movement of the water through the fissures (channels) of earth—(yet it is moving): what are the sticks and straws (ever appearing) anew on it?