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  • می‏نماید تا به کعب این آب جو ** صد چو عاج ابن عنق شد غرق او 2305
  • He makes this river-water seem (only) up to the ankle, (but) a hundred such as Áj son of 'Unuq have ben drowned therein.

  • می‏نماید موج خونش تل مشک ** می‏نماید قعر دریا خاک خشک‏
  • He makes the wave of blood seem to him a mound of musk: He makes the bottom of the sea seem dry land.

  • خشک دید آن بحر را فرعون کور ** تا در او راند از سر مردی و زور
  • Blind Pharaoh deemed that sea dry, so that in (the pride of his) manhood and strength he drave into it.

  • چون در آید در تگ دریا بود ** دیده‏ی فرعون کی بینا بود
  • When he enters (it), he is at the bottom of the sea: how should the eye of Pharaoh be seeing?

  • دیده بینا از لقای حق شود ** حق کجا هم راز هر احمق شود
  • The eye is made seeing by meeting with God: how should God become the confidant of every fool?

  • قند بیند خود شود زهر قتول ** راه بیند خود بود آن بانگ غول‏ 2310
  • He (the fool) sees (what he thinks is) candy: it is, in sooth, deadly poison; he sees (what he thinks is) the road: it is, in sooth, the cry of the ghoul (luring him to destruction).

  • ای فلک در فتنه‏ی آخر زمان ** تیز می‏گردی بده آخر زمان‏
  • O sky, in the tribulation of (these) latter days thou art revolving swiftly; pray, give (us) time (respite and relief).

  • خنجر تیزی تو اندر قصد ما ** نیش زهر آلوده‏ای در فصد ما
  • Thou art a keen dagger to assail us; thou art a poisoned lancet to bleed us.

  • ای فلک از رحم حق آموز رحم ** بر دل موران مزن چون مار زخم‏
  • O sky, learn mercy from the Mercy of God: do not, like a snake, inflict wounds on the hearts of ants.

  • حق آن که چرخه‏ی چرخ ترا ** کرد گردان بر فراز این سرا
  • By the truth of Him who hath set the wheel of thy sphere turning above this (earthly) abode,

  • که دگرگون گردی و رحمت کنی ** پیش از آن که بیخ ما را بر کنی‏ 2315
  • (We beseech thee to) revolve in another wise and show mercy, ere thou uproot us.

  • حق آن که دایگی کردی نخست ** تا نهال ما ز آب و خاک رست‏
  • (We beseech thee by) the truth of thy having fostered us at first, so that our (young) shoot grew up from (the nurture given by) water and earth;

  • حق آن شه که ترا صاف آفرید ** کرد چندان مشعله در تو پدید
  • By the truth of that King who created thee pure and displayed so many cressets in thee,

  • آن چنان معمور و باقی داشتت ** تا که دهری از ازل پنداشتت‏
  • Who hath kept thee so flourishing and lasting that the materialist hath thought thee (existent) from eternity.

  • شکر دانستیم آغاز ترا ** انبیا گفتند آن راز ترا
  • Thanks (to God), we have come to know thy beginning: the prophets have told that secret of thine.

  • آدمی داند که خانه حادث است ** عنکبوتی نه که در وی عابث است‏ 2320
  • A man knows that a house is made (at some time or other); the spider which plays idly in it (knows) not (this).

  • پشه کی داند که این باغ از کی است ** کاو بهاران زاد و مرگش در دی است‏
  • How should the gnat know of what date this garden is?––for ‘twas born in spring, and its death is in the (following) winter.

  • کرم کاندر چوب زاید سست حال ** کی بداند چوب را وقت نهال‏
  • The worm that is born miserably in (dry) wood––how should it know the wood at the time when it was a (sappy) shoot?

  • ور بداند کرم از ماهیتش ** عقل باشد کرم باشد صورتش‏
  • And if the worm should know (this), it would be intellect in its essential substance; the worm would be (only) its (outward) form.

  • عقل خود را می‏نماید رنگها ** چون پری دور است از آن فرسنگ‏ها
  • Intellect shows itself (in many) guises, (but) like the Jinn is leagues removed from them (in its real nature).

  • از ملک بالاست چه جای پری ** تو مگس پری به پستی می‏پری‏ 2325
  • It is above the angels––what occasion is there for (comparing it with) the Jinn? (But) you have the wings of a gnat, you are flying downwards.

  • گر چه عقلت سوی بالا می‏پرد ** مرغ تقلیدت به پستی می‏چرد
  • Although your intellect is flying upward, the bird of your conventional notions is feeding below.

  • علم تقلیدی وبال جان ماست ** عاریه ست و ما نشسته کان ماست‏
  • Conventional knowledge is the bane of our souls; it is a borrowed thing, but we rest (at ease in the belief) that it is ours.

  • زین خرد جاهل همی باید شدن ** دست در دیوانگی باید زدن‏
  • It behoves us to become ignorant of this (worldly) wisdom; (rather) must we clutch at madness.

  • هر چه بینی سود خود ز آن می‏گریز ** زهر نوش و آب حیوان را بریز
  • Always flee from whatever you deem profitable to your (lower) self: drink poison and spill the water of life.