زانک نور انبیا خورشید بود ** نور حس ما چراغ و شمع و دود
Because the light of the prophets was the Sun, (while) the light of our senses is lamp and candle and smoke.
یک بمیرد یک بماند تا به روز ** یک بود پژمرده دیگر با فروز
One (of these lamps) dies, one lasts till daybreak; one is dim, another bright.
جان حیوانی بود حی از غذا ** هم بمیرد او بهر نیک و بذی
The animal soul is (kept) alive by nutriment; however good or bad its state may be, it dies all the same.
گر بمیرد این چراغ و طی شود ** خانه‌ی همسایه مظلم کی شود
If this lamp dies and is extinguished, (yet) how should the neighbour's house become dark?
نور آن خانه چو بی این هم به پاست ** پس چراغ حس هر خانه جداست455
Inasmuch as without this (lamp) the light in that house is still maintained, hence (it follows that) the lamp of sense-perception is different in every house.
این مثال جان حیوانی بود ** نه مثال جان ربانی بود
This is a parable of the animal soul, not a parable of the divine soul.
باز از هندوی شب چون ماه زاد ** در سر هر روزنی نوری فتاد
Again, when the moon is born from the Hindú, Night, a light falls upon every window.
نور آن صد خانه را تو یک شمر ** که نماند نور این بی آن دگر
Count the light of those hundred houses as one, for the light of this (house) does not remain (in existence) without (the light of) the other.
تا بود خورشید تابان بر افق ** هست در هر خانه نور او قنق
So long as the sun is shining on the horizon, its light is a guest in every house;
باز چون خورشید جان آفل شود ** نور جمله خانه‌ها زایل شود460
Again, when the spiritual Sun sets, the light in all the houses disappears.