قابل تعلیم و فهمست این خرد ** لیک صاحب وحی تعلیمش دهد

This intellect is capable of being taught and of apprehending, but (only) the man possessed of Divine inspiration gives it the teaching (which it requires).

جمله حرفتها یقین از وحی بود ** اول او لیک عقل آن را فزود

Assuredly, in their beginning, all trades (crafts and professions) were (derived) from Divine inspiration, but the intellect added (something) to them.

هیچ حرفت را ببین کین عقل ما ** تاند او آموختن بی‌اوستا

Consider whether this intellect of ours can learn any trade without a master.

گرچه اندر مکر موی‌اشکاف بد ** هیچ پیشه رام بی‌استا نشد

Although it (the intellect) was hair-splitting (subtle and ingenious) in contrivance, no trade was subdued (brought under command) without a master.

دانش پیشه ازین عقل ار بدی ** پیشه‌ی بی‌اوستا حاصل شدی 1300

If knowledge of a trade were (derived) from this intellect, any trade would be acquired without a master.

آموختن پیشه گورکنی قابیل از زاغ پیش از آنک در عالم علم گورکنی و گور بود

How Qábíl (Cain) learned the trade of grave-digging from the crow (raven), before knowledge of grave-digging and graves existed in the world.

کندن گوری که کمتر پیشه بود ** کی ز فکر و حیله و اندیشه بود

When was grave-digging, which was the meanest trade (of all), (acquired) from thought and cunning and meditation?

گر بدی این فهم مر قابیل را ** کی نهادی بر سر او هابیل را

If Qábíl had possessed this understanding, how should he have placed (the body of) Hábíl (Abel) on his head?—

که کجا غایب کنم این کشته را ** این به خون و خاک در آغشته را

Saying, “Where shall I hide this murdered one, this man bestained with blood and earth?”

دید زاغی زاغ مرده در دهان ** بر گرفته تیز می‌آمد چنان

He espied a crow which had taken up a dead crow in its mouth and was approaching (ever) so quickly.

از هوا زیر آمد و شد او به فن ** از پی تعلیم او را گورکن 1305

It came down from the air and began skilfully to dig a grave for it (the dead crow) for the purpose of teaching (him).