گفت ای یاران حقم الهام داد ** مر ضعیفی را قوی رایی فتاد
He said: “O friends, God gave me inspiration: to a weakling there came a strong judgement (wise counsel).”
آن چه حق آموخت مر زنبور را ** آن نباشد شیر را و گور را
That which God taught to the bees is not (belonging) to the lion and the wild ass.
خانه‌‌ها سازد پر از حلوای تر ** حق بر او آن علم را بگشاد در1010
It (the bee) makes houses of juicy halwá (sweetmeat): God opened to it the door of that knowledge;
آن چه حق آموخت کرم پیله را ** هیچ پیلی داند آن گون حیله را
That which God taught to the silkworm—does any elephant know such a device?
آدم خاکی ز حق آموخت علم ** تا به هفتم آسمان افروخت علم
Adam, created of earth, learned knowledge from God: (his) knowledge shot beams up to the Seventh Heaven.
نام و ناموس ملک را در شکست ** کوری آن کس که در حق درشک است
He (Adam) broke the name and fame (pride) of the angels, to the confusion of that one who is in doubt concerning God.
زاهد چندین هزاران ساله را ** پوز بندی ساخت آن گوساله را
He (God) made the ascetic of six hundred thousand years (Iblís) a muzzle for that young calf (Adam),
تا نتاند شیر علم دین کشید ** تا نگردد گرد آن قصر مشید1015
That he (Adam) might not be able to drink the milk of knowledge of religion, and that he might not roam around that lofty castle.
علمهای اهل حس شد پوز بند ** تا نگیرد شیر ز آن علم بلند
The sciences of the followers of (external) sense became a muzzle, so that he (the believer in sense-perception) might not receive milk from that sublime knowledge.
قطره‌‌ی دل را یکی گوهر فتاد ** کان به دریاها و گردونها نداد
(But) into the blood-drop (core) of the heart there fell a jewel which He (God) gave not to the seas and skies.