هر صباحی چون سلیمان آمدی ** خاضع اندر مسجد اقصی شدی
Every morning, when Solomon came and made supplication in the Farther Mosque.
نوگیاهی رسته دیدی اندرو ** پس بگفتی نام و نفع خود بگو
He saw that a new plant had grown there; then he would say, “Tell thy name and use.
تو چه دارویی چیی نامت چیست ** تو زیان کی و نفعت بر کیست
What medicine art thou? What art thou? What is thy name? To whom art thou hurtful and for whom is thy usefulness?”
پس بگفتی هر گیاهی فعل و نام ** که من آن را جانم و این را حمام1290
Then every plant would tell its effect and name, saying “I am life to that one, and death to this one.
من مرین را زهرم و او را شکر ** نام من اینست بر لوح از قدر
I am poison to this one, and sugar to that one: this is my name (inscribed) on the Tablet by (the pen of) the Divine decree.”
پس طبیبان از سلیمان زان گیا ** عالم و دانا شدندی مقتدی
Then (by hearing) from Solomon about those plants the physicians became learned and wise authorities (on medicine),
تا کتبهای طبیبی ساختند ** جسم را از رنج می‌پرداختند
So that they compiled medical books and were relieving the body from pain.
این نجوم و طب وحی انبیاست ** عقل و حس را سوی بی‌سو ره کجاست
This astronomy and medicine is (knowledge given by) Divine inspiration to the prophets: where is the way for intellect and sense (to advance) towards that which is without (spatial) direction?
عقل جزوی عقل استخراج نیست ** جز پذیرای فن و محتاج نیست1295
The particular (individual) intellect is not the intellect (capable) of production: it is only the receiver of science and is in need (of teaching).
قابل تعلیم و فهمست این خرد ** لیک صاحب وحی تعلیمش دهد
This intellect is capable of being taught and of apprehending, but (only) the man possessed of Divine inspiration gives it the teaching (which it requires).