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  • پس همه اجسام و اشیا تبصرون  ** واندرو قوتست و سم لاتبصرون 
  • Therefore (though) ye see all bodies and things, and there is food and poison in them (all)—ye see (it) not.

  • هست هر جسمی چو کاسه و کوزه‌ای  ** اندرو هم قوت و هم دلسوزه‌ای 
  • Every body resembles a bowl or a pot, wherein is both food and a (cause of) heart-burning.

  • کاسه پیدا اندرو پنهان رغد  ** طاعمش داند کزان چه می‌خورد 
  • The bowl is visible, the plenty (contained) in it is hidden: (only) he who tastes it (the contents) knows what he is eating or drinking from it.

  • صورت یوسف چو جامی بود خوب  ** زان پدر می‌خورد صد باده‌ی طروب  3300
  • The form of Joseph was like a beauteous cup: from it his father drank a hundred exhilarating wines.

  • باز اخوان را از آن زهراب بود  ** کان دریشان خشم و کینه می‌فزود 
  • Again, to his brethren (the draught they took) from it was poisoned water which was increasing in them anger and hatred.

  • باز از وی مر زلیخا را سکر  ** می‌کشید از عشق افیونی دگر 
  • Again, to Zalíkhá (the draught she took) from it was (sweet as) sugar: she was quaffing a different opiate from (the hand of) Love.

  • غیر آنچ بود مر یعقوب را  ** بود از یوسف غذا آن خوب را 
  • The nutriment which came from Joseph to that fair one was other than that which came to Jacob.

  • گونه‌گونه شربت و کوزه یکی  ** تا نماند در می غیبت شکی 
  • The sherbets are various, but the pot is one, in order that no doubt may remain in thee concerning the wine of the Unseen.

  • باده از غیبست و کوزه زین جهان  ** کوزه پیدا باده در وی بس نهان  3305
  • The wine belongs to the Unseen, the pot to this world: the pot is apparent, the wine in it is very hidden:

  • بس نهان از دیده‌ی نامحرمان  ** لیک بر محرم هویدا و عیان 
  • Very hidden from the eyes of the uninitiated, but manifest and evident to the adept.