هر گمان تشنه‌ی یقینست ای پسر ** می‌زند اندر تزاید بال و پر

O son, every opinion is thirsting for certainty and emulously flapping its wings (in quest thereof).

چون رسد در علم پس پر پا شود ** مر یقین را علم او بویا شود

When it attains to knowledge, then the wing becomes a foot, and its knowledge begins to scent certainty,

زانک هست اندر طریق مفتتن ** علم کمتر از یقین و فوق ظن 4120

For in the tested Way knowledge is inferior to certainty, but above opinion.

علم جویای یقین باشد بدان ** و آن یقین جویای دیدست و عیان

Know that knowledge is a seeker of certainty, and certainty is a seeker of vision and intuition.

اندر الهیکم بجو این را کنون ** از پس کلا پس لو تعلمون

Seek this (difference between knowledge and intuitive certainty) now, in (the Súra which begins with) Alhákum, after (the word) kallá and after (the words) lau ta‘lamún.

می‌کشد دانش ببینش ای علیم ** گر یقین گشتی ببینندی جحیم

Knowledge leads to vision, O knowing one: if it (knowledge) became (intuitive) certainty, they would see Hell.

دید زاید از یقین بی امتهال ** آنچنانک از ظن می‌زاید خیال

Vision is immediately born of certainty, just as fancy is born of opinion.

اندر الهیکم بیان این ببین ** که شود علم الیقین عین الیقین 4125

See in Alhákum the explanation of this, (namely), that the knowledge of certainty becomes the intuition of certainty.

از گمان و از یقین بالاترم ** وز ملامت بر نمی‌گردد سرم

“I am higher than opinion and certainty, and my head is not to be turned aside by blame.

چون دهانم خورد از حلوای او ** چشم‌روشن گشتم و بینای او

Since my mouth ate of His sweetmeat, I have become clear-eyed and a seer of Him.