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  • زیرکی بفروش و حیرانی بخر ** زیرکی ظنست و حیرانی نظر
  • Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.

  • عقل قربان کن به پیش مصطفی ** حسبی الله گو که الله‌ام کفی
  • Sacrifice your understanding in the presence of Mustafá (Mohammed) say, “hasbiya ‘lláh, for God sufficeth me.”

  • هم‌چو کنعان سر ز کشتی وا مکش ** که غرورش داد نفس زیرکش
  • Do not draw back your head from the ship (ark), like Kan‘án (Canaan), whom his intelligent soul deluded,

  • که برآیم بر سر کوه مشید ** منت نوحم چرا باید کشید 1410
  • Saying, “I will go up to the top of the lofty mountain: why must I bear gratitude (be under an obligation) to Noah?”

  • چون رمى از منتش اى بىرشد ** كه خدا هم منت او مىكشد
  • How should you recoil from being grateful to him, O unrighteous one, when even God bears gratitude to him?

  • چون رمی از منتش بر جان ما ** چونک شکر و منتش گوید خدا
  • How should gratitude to him not be (as an obligation) on our souls, when God gives him words of thankful praise and gratitude?

  • تو چه دانی ای غراره‌ی پر حسد ** منت او را خدا هم می‌کشد
  • What do you know (about his exalted state), O sack full of envy? Even God bears gratitude to him.

  • کاشکی او آشنا ناموختی ** تا طمع در نوح و کشتی دوختی
  • Would that he (one like Kan‘án) had not learned to swim, so that he might have fixed his hope on Noah and the ark!

  • کاش چون طفل از حیل جاهل بدی ** تا چو طفلان چنگ در مادر زدی 1415
  • Would that, like a child, he had been ignorant of devices, so that, like children, he might have clung to his mother,

  • یا به علم نقل کم بودی ملی ** علم وحی دل ربودی از ولی
  • Or that he had not been filled with traditional knowledge, (but) had carried away from a saint the knowledge divinely revealed to the heart!