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  • چیست اصل و مایه‏ی هر پیشه‏ای ** جز خیال و جز عرض و اندیشه‏ای‏
  • What but some fancy and accident and idea is the origin and source of every handicraft?

  • جمله اجزای جهان را بی‏غرض ** درنگر حاصل نشد جز از عرض‏
  • Look disinterestedly on all the (various) parts of the world: they are not the result of (anything) except accident.

  • اول فکر آخر آمد در عمل ** بنیت عالم چنان دان در ازل‏ 970
  • The beginning, which is thought, comes to an end in action; know that in such wise was the construction of the world in eternity.

  • میوه‏ها در فکر دل اول بود ** در عمل ظاهر به آخر می‏شود
  • The fruits are first in the mind's thought, (but only) at the last do they become manifest actually:

  • چون عمل کردی شجر بنشاندی ** اندر آخر حرف اول خواندی‏
  • When you have done work (and) planted the tree—at the end (when the fruit appears) you read the first words.

  • گر چه شاخ و برگ و بیخش اول است ** آن همه از بهر میوه مرسل است‏
  • Although its boughs, leaves, and roots are first, (yet) all those are sent for the sake of the fruit.

  • پس سری که مغز آن افلاک بود ** اندر آخر خواجه‏ی لولاک بود
  • Hence that hidden Thought which was the brain (core) of those (nine) heavens was in the end the lord of lawlák.

  • نقل اعراض است این بحث و مقال ** نقل اعراض است این شیر و شگال‏ 975
  • This discussion and talk are (involve) the carrying over of accidents; this lion and jackal are (examples of) the carrying over of accidents.

  • جمله عالم خود عرض بودند تا ** اندر این معنی بیامد هل أتی‏
  • Indeed, all created beings were accidents (once), so that in this sense (the text) was revealed—Did there not come…?

  • این عرضها از چه زاید از صور ** وین صور هم از چه زاید از فکر
  • Whence arise these accidents? From ideas. And whence arise these ideas? From thoughts.