زآنک این فانی دلیل باقیست ** لابه‌ی مستان دلیل ساقیست3050
For this perishable (body) is a proof of the everlasting (spirit): the maundering of the intoxicated is a proof of (the existence of) the Cupbearer.
مثال دیگر هم درین معنی
Another parable on the same subject.
هست بازیهای آن شیر علم ** مخبری از بادهای مکتتم
The gambols of the lion on the banner are indicative of winds concealed (from view).
گر نبودی جنبش آن بادها ** شیر مرده کی بجستی در هوا
If there were not the movement of those winds, how would the dead lion leap into the air?
زان شناسی باد را گر آن صباست ** یا دبورست این بیان آن خفاست
By that (means) you know whether the wind is the east-wind or the westwind: this (movement of the lion) is the explanation of that occult matter.
این بدن مانند آن شیر علم ** فکر می‌جنباند او را دم به دم
This body is like the lion on the banner: thought is causing it to move continually.
فکر کان از مشرق آید آن صباست ** وآنک از مغرب دبور با وباست3055
The thought that comes from the east is (as) the (refreshing) east-wind, and that which (comes) from the west is (as) the west-wind fraught with pestilence.
مشرق این باد فکرت دیگرست ** مغرب این باد فکرت زان سرست
The east of this wind of thought is different; the west of this wind of thought is from Yonder side.
مه جمادست و بود شرقش جماد ** جان جان جان بود شرق فاد
The moon is inanimate, and its east is inanimate: the heart's east is the soul of the soul of Soul.
شرق خورشیدی که شد باطن‌فروز ** قشر و عکس آن بود خورشید روز
The east of that Sun which illumines the inward part—the sun of day is (only) the husk and reflexion thereof;
زآنک چون مرده بود تن بی‌لهب ** پیش او نه روز بنماید نه شب
For when the body is dead (and) without the (vital) flame, neither day nor night appears to it;