تا چرد آن بره در صحرای سبز ** هین رحم بگشا که گشت این بره گبز
So that the lamb may graze in the green fields. Come, open thy womb, for this lamb has grown big.”
درد زه گر رنج آبستان بود ** بر جنین اشکستن زندان بود3560
If the pain of childbirth is grievous to the pregnant (woman), it is, for the embryo, the breaking of (its) prison.
حامله گریان ز زه کاین المناص ** و آن جنین خندان که پیش آمد خلاص
The pregnant woman weeps at childbirth, saying, “Where is the refuge?”—but the embryo laughs, saying, “Deliverance has appeared.”
هرچه زیر چرخ هستند امهات ** از جماد و از بهیمه وز نبات
Whatever mothers (bodies) there are under the sky—mineral, animal, or vegetable—
هر یکی از درد غیری غافل اند ** جز کسانی که نبیه و کامل‌اند
They are heedless, every one, of another's pain, except those persons that are discerning and perfect.
آنچ کوسه داند از خانه‌ی کسان ** بلمه از خانه خودش کی داند آن
How should the man with a bushy beard know of his own house that which the man with a few hairs on his chin knows of (other) people's houses?
آنچ صاحب‌دل بداند حال تو ** تو ز حال خود ندانی ای عمو3565
What the man of heart (the clairvoyant mystic) knows of your condition you do not know of your own condition, O uncle.
بیان آنک هرچه غفلت و غم و کاهلی و تاریکیست همه از تنست کی ارضی است و سفلی
Setting forth that whatever is (denoted by the terms) heedlessness and anxiety and indolence and darkness is all (derived) from the body, which belongs to the earth and the lower world.
غفلت از تن بود چون تن روح شد ** بیند او اسرار را بی هیچ بد
Heedlessness was (derived) from the body: when the body has become spirit, it inevitably beholds the mysteries (of the Unseen).
چون زمین برخاست از جو فلک ** نه شب و نه سایه باشد نه دلک
When the earth is removed from the celestial atmosphere, there is neither night nor shade nor sunset.
هر کجا سایه‌ست و شب یا سایگه ** از زمین باشد نه از افلاک و مه
Wherever shade and night or shadowy place exist, ’tis (caused) by the earth, not by the heavens and the moon.