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.

دود پیوسته هم از هیزم بود ** نه ز آتشهای مستنجم بود

Likewise, ’tis from the faggots that the smoke always arises, not from the resplendent fires.

وهم افتد در خطا و در غلط ** عقل باشد در اصابتها فقط 3570

The imagination falls into error and mistake; the intellect is (engaged) only in acts of true perception.

هر گرانی و کسل خود از تنست ** جان ز خفت جمله در پریدنست

Every state of heaviness (sloth) and indolence, indeed, is (derived) from the body; the spirit, from its lightness (subtlety), is all on the wing.

روی سرخ از غلبه خونها بود ** روی زرد از جنبش صفرا بود

The face is red from the predominance of blood; the face is yellow from the movement (action) of the yellow bile.

رو سپید از قوت بلغم بود ** باشد از سودا که رو ادهم بود

The face is white from the power of the phlegm; ’tis from the black bile that the face is swarthy.

در حقیقت خالق آثار اوست ** لیک جز علت نبیند اهل پوست

In reality He (God) is the creator of effects, but followers of the husk (formalists) see nothing but the (secondary) cause.

مغز کو از پوستها آواره نیست ** از طبیب و علت او را چاره نیست 3575

The kernel (intellect) that is not separated from the husks has no means (of escape) from doctor and disease;

چون دوم بار آدمی‌زاده بزاد ** پای خود بر فرق علتها نهاد

(But) when a son of man is born twice, he plants his foot upon the head of (all) causes: