How excellent is the Messiah's table of food without stint! How excellent is Mary's fruit (that was produced) without an orchard!
بر زند از جان کامل معجزات ** بر ضمیر جان طالب چون حیات
Miracles (proceeding) from the spirit of the perfect (saint) affect the soul of the seeker as life (bestowed on the dead).
معجزه بحرست و ناقص مرغ خاک ** مرغ آبی در وی آمن از هلاک
The miracle is (like) the sea, and the deficient (heedless) man is (like) the land-bird (which perishes in the sea); (but) the water-bird is safe from destruction there.
عجزبخش جان هر نامحرمی ** لیک قدرت‌بخش جان هم‌دمی 1310
It (the miracle) bestows infirmity on any one that is uninitiated, but it bestows power on the spirit of an intimate.
چون نیابی این سعادت در ضمیر ** پس ز ظاهر هر دم استدلال گیر
Since you do not feel this bliss in your inmost heart, then continually seek the clue to it from outside,
که اثرها بر مشاعر ظاهرست ** وین اثرها از مثر مخبرست
For effects are apparent to the senses, and these effects give information concerning their producer.
هست پنهان معنی هر داروی ** هم‌چو سحر و صنعت هر جادوی
The virtue of every drug is hidden like magic and the art of any sorcerer;
چون نظر در فعل و آثارش کنی ** گرچه پنهانست اظهارش کنی
(But) when you regard its action and effects, you bring it to light (even) though it is hidden.
قوتی کان اندرونش مضمرست ** چون به فعل آید عیان و مظهرست 1315
The potency that is concealed within it is clearly seen and made manifest when it comes into action.
چون به آثار این همه پیدا شدت ** چون نشد پیدا ز تاثیر ایزدت
Since all these things are revealed to you by means of effects, how is not God revealed to you by the production of effects?