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  • هم ز استعداد وا مانی اگر ** سر کشی ز استاد راز و با خبر 3350
  • Thou wilt be deprived even of (thy good) predisposition, if thou rebel against the Master of the mystery who is endowed with knowledge.
  • صبر کن در موزه دوزی تو هنوز ** ور بوی بی‌صبر گردی پاره‌دوز
  • Do thou still have patience in cobbling; for if thou be impatient, thou wilt become a rag-stitcher.
  • کهنه‌دوزان گر بدیشان صبر و حلم ** جمله نودوزان شدندی هم به علم
  • If the stitchers of old clothes had patience and forbearance, all of them too would become stitchers of new garments through (acquisition of) knowledge.
  • بس بکوشی و بخر از کلال ** هم تو گویی خویش کالعقل عقال
  • Thou strivest much, and at last even thou thyself sayest in weariness that the intellect is a fetter,
  • هم‌چو آن مرد مفلسف روز مرگ ** عقل را می‌دید بس بی‌بال و برگ
  • Like the philosopher (who) on the day of his death perceived his intellect to be very poor and feeble,
  • بی‌غرض می‌کرد آن دم اعتراف ** کز ذکاوت راندیم اسپ از گزاف 3355
  • And in that hour disinterestedly confessed (the truth), saying, “(Impelled) by acuteness of mind we galloped in vain.
  • از غروری سر کشیدیم از رجال ** آشنا کردیم در بحر خیال
  • In delusion we drew (scornfully) away from the holy men, we swam in the sea of phantasy.”
  • آشنا هیچست اندر بحر روح ** نیست اینجا چاره جز کشتی نوح
  • In the spiritual Sea swimming is naught (of no avail): here is no resource but the ship (ark) of Noah.
  • این چنین فرمود این شاه رسل ** که منم کشتی درین دریای کل
  • Thus said that king of the prophets, “I am the ship in this universal Sea,
  • یا کسی کو در بصیرتهای من ** شد خلیفه‌ی راستی بر جای من
  • Or that person who, in respect of my (inward) clairvoyances, has become a true vicegerent in my stead.”