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2529-2538

  • مغزجوی از پوست دارد صد ملال ** مغز نغزان را حلال آمد حلال
  • He that seeks the kernel has a hundred loathings for the husk: to the goodly (saints) the kernel (alone) is lawful, lawful.

  • چونک قشر عقل صد برهان دهد ** عقل کل کی گام بی ایقان نهد 2530
  • When the intellect, (which is) the husk, offers a hundred evidences, how should the Universal Intellect take a step with out having (intuitive) certainty?

  • عقل دفترها کند یکسر سیاه ** عقل عقل آفاق دارد پر ز ماه
  • The intellect makes books entirely black (with writing); the Intellect of intellect keeps the horizons (the whole universe) filled (with light) from the Moon (of Reality).

  • از سیاهی و سپیدی فارغست ** نور ماهش بر دل و جان بازغست
  • It is free from blackness and whiteness: the light of its moon rises (and shines) upon heart and soul.

  • این سیاه و این سپید ار قدر یافت ** زان شب قدرست کاختروار تافت
  • If this black and white’ has gotten (any) power (value), ‘tis from the Night of Power that shone forth like a star.

  • قیمت همیان و کیسه از زرست ** بی ز زر همیان و کیسه ابترست
  • The value of scrip and purse is (derived) from the gold: with out the gold, scrip and purse are docked

  • همچنانک قدر تن از جان بود ** قدر جان از پرتو جانان بود 2535
  • Even as the worth of the body is (derived) from the soul, (so) the worth of the soul is (derived) from the radiance of the Soul of souls.

  • گر بدی جان زنده بی پرتو کنون ** هیچ گفتی کافران را میتون
  • If the soul were now alive without (that) radiance, would He (God) ever have called the infidels “dead”

  • هین بگو که ناطقه جو می‌کند ** تا به قرنی بعد ما آبی رسد
  • Come, speak (O my soul)! for the Logos is digging a channel to the end that some water may reach a generation after us.

  • گرچه هر قرنی سخن‌آری بود ** لیک گفت سالفان یاری بود
  • Although (in) every generation there is one who brings the word (of God), yet the sayings of them that have gone before are helpful