گه مشبه را موحد میکند ** گه موحد را صور ره میزند
Sometimes He (God) makes the mushabbih (who regards Him as immanent in phenomena) a muwahhid (an asserter of His transcendence); sometimes (these) forms are waylaying the muwahhid (so that he cannot gain access to God who transcends all forms).
گه ترا گوید ز مستی بو الحسن ** یا صغیر السن یا رطب البدن
Sometimes Abu ’l-Hasan in drunkenness (ecstasy) says to thee, “O thou whose teeth are small (whose years are few), O thou whose body is tender!”
گاه نقش خویش ویران میکند ** از پی تنزیه جانان میکند60
Sometimes he is laying waste (ruining and defacing) his own image: he is doing that in order to assert the transcendence of the Beloved (God).
چشم حس را هست مذهب اعتزال ** دیدهی عقل است سنی در وصال
The doctrine held by the eye of sense is Mu‘tazilism, whereas the eye of Reason is Sunnite (orthodox) in respect of (its) union (vision of God).
سخرهی حساند اهل اعتزال ** خویش را سنی نمایند از ضلال
Those in thrall to sense-perception are Mu‘tazilites, (though) from misguidedness they represent themselves as Sunnites.
هر که در حس ماند او معتزلی ست ** گر چه گوید سنیم از جاهلی ست
Any one who remains in (bondage to) sense-perception is a Mu‘tazilite; though he may say he is a Sunnite, ’tis from ignorance.
هر که بیرون شد ز حس سنی وی است ** اهل بینش چشم عقل خوش پی است
Any one who has escaped from (the bondage of) sense-perception is a Sunnite: the man endowed with (spiritual) vision is the eye of sweet-paced (harmonious) Reason.
گر بدیدی حس حیوان شاه را ** پس بدیدی گاو و خر الله را65
If the animal sense could see the King (God), then the ox and the ass would behold Allah.
گر نبودی حس دیگر مر ترا ** جز حس حیوان ز بیرون هوا
If, besides the animal sense, thou hadst not another sense outside of (unconditioned by) the desire of the flesh,
پس بنی آدم مکرم کی بدی ** کی به حس مشترک محرم شدی
Then how should the sons of Adam have been honoured? How by means of the common sense should they have become privileged (to know these mysteries)?