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3139-3148

  • هرچه در وی می‌نماید عکس اوست  ** هم‌چو عکس ماه اندر آب جوست 
  • Whatever appears in him (Adam) is the reflexion of Him, just as the moon is reflected in the water of the river.

  • بر صطرلابش نقوش عنکبوت  ** بهر اوصاف ازل دارد ثبوت  3140
  • The figures (cut) on the “spider” (uppermost tablet) on his astrolabe are there for the sake of (typifying) the Eternal Attributes,

  • تا ز چرخ غیب وز خورشید روح  ** عنکبوتش درس گوید از شروح 
  • In order that its “spider” may give lessons in exposition of the sky of the Unseen and the sun of the Spirit.

  • عنکبوت و این صطرلاب رشاد  ** بی‌منجم در کف عام اوفتاد 
  • Without a (spiritual) astronomer (to explain their significance), the “spider” and this astrolabe which guides aright fall (uselessly) into the hands of the vulgar.

  • انبیا را داد حق تنجیم این  ** غیب را چشمی بباید غیب‌بین 
  • God bestowed (knowledge of) this (spiritual) astronomy on the prophets: for (the mysteries of) the Unseen an eye that observes the Unseen is necessary.

  • در چه دنیا فتادند این قرون  ** عکس خود را دید هر یک چه درون 
  • These (worldly) generations fell into the well of the present world: every one saw in the well his own reflexion.

  • از برون دان آنچ در چاهت نمود  ** ورنه آن شیری که در چه شد فرود  3145
  • Know that what appears to you in the well is (really) from outside; else you are (like) the lion that plunged into the well (and was drowned).

  • برد خرگوشیش از ره کای فلان  ** در تگ چاهست آن شیر ژیان 
  • A hare led him astray, saying, “O such-and-such, this furious lion (thy rival) is at the bottom of the well.

  • در رو اندر چاه کین از وی بکش  ** چون ازو غالب‌تری سر بر کنش 
  • Go into the well and wreak vengeance on him: tear off his head, since thou art mightier than he.”

  • آن مقلد سخره‌ی خرگوش شد  ** از خیال خویشتن پر جوش شد 
  • That (blind) follower of authority was subjugated by the hare: he was filled with boiling (fury) by his own fancy.