نزد آن که لم یذق دعوی است این ** نزد سکان افق معنی است این
In the view of him that has not experienced (it), this is (mere) pretension; in the view of the inhabitants of the (spiritual) horizon, this is the reality.
لاف و دعوی باشد این پیش غراب ** دیگ تی و پر یکی پیش ذباب
This is brag and pretension in the eyes of the crow: an empty or full pot is all one to the fly.
چون که در تو میشود لقمه گهر ** تن مزن چندان که بتوانی بخور
When morsels of food become (changed to) pearls within you, do not forbear: eat as much as you can.”
شیخ روزی بهر دفع سوء ظن ** در لگن قی کرد پر در شد لگن
One day the Shaykh, in order to rebut (these) ill thoughts, vomited in a basin, and the basin became full of pearls.
گوهر معقول را محسوس کرد ** پیر بینا بهر کم عقلی مرد3570
On account of the (abusive) man's little understanding, the clairvoyant Pír made the intelligible pearls objects of sense-perception.
چون که در معده شود پاکت پلید ** قفل نه بر حلق و پنهان کن کلید
When pure (lawful food) turns to impurity in your stomach, put a lock upon your gullet and hide the key;
هر که در وی لقمه شد نور جلال ** هر چه خواهد تا خورد او را حلال
(But) any one in whom morsels of food become the light of (spiritual) glory, let him eat whatever he will, it is lawful to him.
بیان دعویی که عین آن دعوی گواه صدق خویش است
Explaining (that there are) some assertions the truth of which is attested by their very nature.
گر تو هستی آشنای جان من ** نیست دعوی گفت معنی لان من
If you are my soul's familiar friend, my words full of (real) meaning are not (mere) assertion.
گر بگویم نیم شب پیش توام ** هین مترس از شب که من خویش توام
If at midnight I say, “I am near you: come now, be not afraid of the night, for I am your kinsman,”
این دو دعوی پیش تو معنی بود ** چون شناسی بانگ خویشاوند خود3575
These two assertions are to you reality, since you recognise the voice of your own relative.