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2125-2134

  • صد هزاران ز اهل تقلید و نشان ** افکندشان نیم وهمی در گمان‌‌ 2125
  • Myriads of conformists and legalists are cast into doubt by a half-imagination,
  • که به ظن تقلید و استدلالشان ** قایم است و جمله پر و بالشان‌‌
  • For their conformity and their drawing evidence from logical proofs and all their wings and wing-feathers (every means which they employ in order to arrive at the truth) depend on opinion.
  • شبهه‌‌ای انگیزد آن شیطان دون ** در فتند این جمله کوران سر نگون‌‌
  • The vile Devil raises a doubt (in their minds): all these blind ones fall in headlong.
  • پای استدلالیان چوبین بود ** پای چوبین سخت بی‌‌تمکین بود
  • The leg of the syllogisers is of wood: a wooden leg is very infirm,
  • غیر آن قطب زمان دیده‌‌ور ** کز ثباتش کوه گردد خیره‌‌سر
  • Unlike the Qutb (supreme saint) of the age, the possessor of (spiritual) vision, by whose steadfastness the mountain is made giddy-headed (amazed).
  • پای نابینا عصا باشد عصا ** تا نیفتد سر نگون او بر حصا 2130
  • The blind man's leg is a staff, a staff, so that he may not fall headlong on the pebbles.
  • آن سواری کاو سپه را شد ظفر ** اهل دین را کیست سلطان بصر
  • The cavalier that became (the cause of) victory for the army, who is he for (the army of) the religious? The Lord of (spiritual) sight.
  • با عصا کوران اگر ره دیده‌‌اند ** در پناه خلق روشن دیده‌‌اند
  • If, with (the aid of) a staff, the blind have seen their way, (yet) they are under the protection of the clear-sighted people.
  • گرنه بینایان بدندی و شهان ** جمله کوران مرده‌‌اندی در جهان‌‌
  • Were there no men of vision and (spiritual) kings, all the blind in the world would be dead.
  • نی ز کوران کشت آید نه درود ** نه عمارت نه تجارتها و سود
  • From the blind comes neither sowing nor reaping nor cultivation nor tradings and profit.