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آن پدر بهر دل او اذن داد ** گفت چون اینست میلت خیر باد
- (But) in order to please him his father gave the permission and said, “Since this is thy desire, may good come (of it)!”
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هر ضریری کز مسیحی سر کشد ** او جهودانه بماند از رشد 4115
- Any blind man who turns away in scorn from a Messiah will be left, like the Jews, without guidance;
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قابل ضو بود اگر چه کور بود ** شد ازین اعراض او کور و کبود
- (For) though he was blind, he was capable of receiving light; (but) from showing this aversion he becomes blind and blue (miserably lost).
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گویدش عیسی بزن در من دو دست ** ای عمی کحل عزیزی با منست
- Jesus says to him, “O blind man, cling to me with both hands: I have a precious collyrium.
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از من ار کوری بیابی روشنی ** بر قمیص یوسف جان بر زنی
- If thou art blind, thou wilt obtain light from me and lay hold of the (sweet-scented) Joseph's shirt of the spirit.”
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کار و باری کت رسد بعد شکست ** اندر آن اقبال و منهاج رهست
- The (real) fortune and highway (of success) lies in the business that comes to thee after utter defeat (self-abasement).
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کار و باری که ندارد پا و سر ** ترک کن هی پیر خر ای پیر خر 4120
- Give up the business that hath no foot or head (permanence): hark, old donkey, get for thyself a Pír!
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غیر پیر استاد و سرلشکر مباد ** پیر گردون نی ولی پیر رشاد
- May none but the Pír be (thy) master and captain!—not the Pír (old man) of the rolling sky, but the Pír of right guidance.
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در زمان چون پیر را شد زیردست ** روشنایی دید آن ظلمت‌پرست
- The devotee of darkness sees the light immediately as soon as he becomes subject to (the authority of) the Pír.
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شرط تسلیم است نه کار دراز ** سود نبود در ضلالت ترک‌تاز
- What is required is self-surrender, not long toil: ’tis useless to rush about in error.