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  • عقل اسیرست و همی خواهد ز حق ** روزیی بی رنج و نعمت بر طبق
  • The intellect is a captive and craves of God daily bread (won) without toil, and bounty (placed before it) on a tray.

  • روزی بی رنج او موقوف چیست ** آنک بکشد گاو را کاصل بدیست
  • Upon what does its daily bread (won) without toil depend? Upon its killing the cow is the origin of (all) evil

  • نفس گوید چون کشی تو گاو من ** زانک گاو نفس باشد نقش تن
  • The fleshly soul says, “How shouldst thou kill my ‘cow’?-because the “cow” of the fleshly soul is the (outward) form of the body.

  • خواجه‌زاده‌ی عقل مانده بی‌نوا ** نفس خونی خواجه گشت و پیشوا 2510
  • The intellect, (typified by) the master’s son, is left destitute, (while) the fleshly soul, (typified by) the murderer, has become a master and leader.

  • روزی بی‌رنج می‌دانی که چیست ** قوت ارواحست و ارزاق نبیست
  • Do you know what is the daily bread (won) without toil? It is the food of spirits and the daily bread of the prophet.

  • لیک موقوفست بر قربان گاو ** گنج اندر گاو دان ای کنج‌کاو
  • But it depends upon sacrificing the cow: know (that) the (spiritual) treasure (is found) in (sacrifice of) the cow, O you who dig in (holes and) corners!

  • دوش چیزی خورده‌ام ور نه تمام ** دادمی در دست فهم تو زمام
  • Yesternight I ate something; otherwise, I would have given the reins entirely into the hand of your understanding’.

  • دوش چیزی خورده‌ام افسانه است ** هرچه می‌آید ز پنهان خانه است
  • (The words), ‘ yesternight I ate something,” are an idle tale: whatsoever comes (to pass) is from the secret chamber (of Divine Destiny).

  • چشم بر اسباب از چه دوختیم ** گر ز خوش‌چشمان کرشم آموختیم 2515
  • Wherefore have we fixed our eyes on (secondary) causes, if we have learned from those with beauteous eyes how to glance amorously?

  • هست بر اسباب اسبابی دگر ** در سبب منگر در آن افکن نظر
  • Over the (secondary) causes there are other (primary) causes: do not look at the (secondary) cause; let thy gaze fall on that (primary cause).