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452-461

  • من نیم فرعون کایم سوی نیل  ** سوی آتش می‌روم من چون خلیل 
  • “I am not (like) Pharaoh that I should come to the Nile; I am going towards the fire, like Khalíl (Abraham).

  • نیست آتش هست آن ماء معین  ** وآن دگر از مکر آب آتشین 
  • ’Tis not fire; (in reality) ’tis flowing water, (while) the other, through (Divine) cunning, is water whereof the (real) nature is fire.

  • پس نکو گفت آن رسول خوش‌جواز  ** ذره‌ای عقلت به از صوم و نماز 
  • Excellently well said the complaisant Prophet, “A mote of intelligence is better for thee than fasting and performing the ritual prayer,”

  • زانک عقلت جوهرست این دو عرض  ** این دو در تکمیل آن شد مفترض  455
  • Because thy intelligence is the substance, (whereas) these two (things) are accidents: these two are made obligatory in (the case of persons who possess) the full complement of it,

  • تا جلا باشد مر آن آیینه را  ** که صفا آید ز طاعت سینه را 
  • In order that the mirror (intelligence) may have (a bright) lustre; for purity comes to the breast (heart) from piety.

  • لیک گر آیینه از بن فاسدست  ** صیقل او را دیر باز آرد به دست 
  • But if the mirror is fundamentally depraved, (only) after a long time does the polisher get it back (to purity);

  • وان گزین آیینه که خوش مغرس است  ** اندکی صیقل گری آن را بس است 
  • While (in the case of) the fine mirror, which is (like) a goodly planting-ground, a little polishing is enough for it.

  • تفاوت عقول در اصل فطرت خلاف معتزله کی ایشان گویند در اصل عقول جز وی برابرند این افزونی و تفاوت از تعلم است و ریاضت و تجربه 
  • The diversity of intelligences in their nature as originally created; (a doctrine) opposed to (that of) the Mu‘tazilites, who assert that particular (individual) intelligences are originally equal, and that this superiority and diversity is the result of learning and training and experience.

  • این تفاوت عقلها را نیک دان  ** در مراتب از زمین تا آسمان 
  • Know well that intelligences differ thus in degree from the earth to the sky.

  • هست عقلی هم‌چو قرص آفتاب  ** هست عقلی کمتر از زهره و شهاب  460
  • There is an intelligence like the orb of the sun; there is an intelligence inferior to (the planet) Venus and the meteor.

  • هست عقلی چون چراغی سرخوشی  ** هست عقلی چون ستاره‌ی آتشی 
  • There is an intelligence like a tipsy (flickering) lamp; there is an intelligence like a star of fire,