لیک چون در رنگ گم شد هوش تو ** شد ز نور آن رنگها رو پوش تو

But since thy mind was lost (absorbed) in (perception of) the colour, those colours became to thee a veil from (debarred thee from contemplating) the light.

چون که شب آن رنگها مستور بود ** پس بدیدی دید رنگ از نور بود

Inasmuch as at night those colours were hidden, thou sawest that thy vision of the colour was (derived) from the light.

نیست دید رنگ بی‌‌نور برون ** همچنین رنگ خیال اندرون‌‌

There is no vision of colour without the external light: even so it is with the colour of inward phantasy.

این برون از آفتاب و از سها ** و اندرون از عکس انوار علی‌‌ 1125

This outward (light) is (derived) from the sun and from Suhá, while the inward (light) is from the reflexion of the beams of (Divine) Glory.

نور نور چشم خود نور دل است ** نور چشم از نور دلها حاصل است‌‌

The light which gives light to the eye is in truth the light of the heart: the light of the eye is produced by the light of hearts.

باز نور نور دل نور خداست ** کاو ز نور عقل و حس پاک و جداست‌‌

Again, the light which gives light to the heart is the Light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.

شب نبد نوری ندیدی رنگها ** پس به ضد نور پیدا شد ترا

At night there was no light and thou didst not see the colours; then it (the light) was made manifest by the opposite of light (by darkness).

دیدن نور است آن گه دید رنگ ** وین به ضد نور دانی بی‌‌درنگ‌‌

(First) comes the seeing of light, then the seeing of colour; and this thou knowest immediately by the opposite of light (darkness).

رنج و غم را حق پی آن آفرید ** تا بدین ضد خوش دلی آید پدید 1130

God created pain and sorrow for the purpose that happiness might be made manifest by means of this opposite.

پس نهانیها به ضد پیدا شود ** چون که حق را نیست ضد پنهان بود

Hidden things, then, are manifested by means of their opposite; since God hath no opposite, He is hidden;