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

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;

که نظر بر نور بود آن گه به رنگ ** ضد به ضد پیدا بود چون روم و زنگ‌‌

For the sight fell (first) on the light, then on the colour: opposite is made manifest by opposite, like Greeks and Ethiopians.

پس به ضد نور دانستی تو نور ** ضد ضد را می‌‌نماید در صدور

Therefore thou knewest light by its opposite: opposite reveals opposite in (the process of) coming forth.

نور حق را نیست ضدی در وجود ** تا به ضد او را توان پیدا نمود

The Light of God hath no opposite in (all) existence, that by means of that opposite it should be possible to make Him manifest:

لاجرم أبصارنا لا تدرکه ** و هو یدرک بین تو از موسی و که‌‌ 1135

Necessarily (therefore) our eyes do not perceive Him, though He perceives (us): see this (fact) from (the case of) Moses and the mountain (Sinai).

صورت از معنی چو شیر از بیشه دان ** یا چو آواز و سخن ز اندیشه دان‌‌

Know that form springs from spirit (reality) as the lion from the jungle, or as voice and speech from thought.

این سخن و آواز از اندیشه خاست ** تو ندانی بحر اندیشه کجاست‌‌

This speech and voice arose from thought; thou knowest not where is the sea of thought,

لیک چون موج سخن دیدی لطیف ** بحر آن دانی که باشد هم شریف‌‌

But since thou hast seen that the waves of speech are fair, thou knowest that their sea also is noble.

چون ز دانش موج اندیشه بتاخت ** از سخن و آواز او صورت بساخت‌‌

When the waves of thought sped on from (the sea of) Wisdom, it (Wisdom) made (for them) the form of speech and voice.