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  • 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).

  • انبیا در قطع اسباب آمدند ** معجزات خویش بر کیوان زدند
  • The prophets came in order to cut (the cords of secondary) causes: they flung their miracles at Saturn (in the Seventh Heaven).

  • بی‌سبب مر بحر را بشکافتند ** بی زراعت چاش گندم یافتند
  • Without cause (means) they clove the sea asunder; without sowing they found heaps of corn.

  • ریگها هم آرد شد از سعیشان ** پشم بز ابریشم آمد کش‌کشان
  • Sand, too, was turned into flour by their work; goat’s hair became silk as it was pulled (from the hide).

  • جمله قرآن هست در قطع سبب ** عز درویش و هلاک بولهب 2520
  • The whole of the Qur’án consists in (is concerned with) the cutting off of (secondary) causes: (its theme is) the glory of the poor (prophet or saint) and the destruction of (those like) Abú Lahab.

  • مرغ بابیلی دو سه سنگ افکند ** لشکر زفت حبش را بشکند
  • A swift drops two or three pebbles and shatters the mighty host of Abyssinia: