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  • گرنه بینایان بدندی و شهان ** جمله کوران مرده‌‌اندی در جهان‌‌
  • Were there no men of vision and (spiritual) kings, all the blind in the world would be dead.

  • نی ز کوران کشت آید نه درود ** نه عمارت نه تجارتها و سود
  • From the blind comes neither sowing nor reaping nor cultivation nor tradings and profit.

  • گر نکردی رحمت و افضالتان ** در شکستی چوب استدلالتان‌‌ 2135
  • If He (God) did not bestow mercy and grace upon you, the wood of your logical deduction would break.

  • این عصا چه بود قیاسات و دلیل ** آن عصا کی دادشان بینا جلیل‌‌
  • What is this staff? Inferences and (logical) demonstration. Who gave them (the blind) that staff? The all-seeing and almighty One.

  • چون عصا شد آلت جنگ و نفیر ** آن عصا را خرد بشکن ای ضریر
  • Since the staff has become a weapon of quarrel and attack, break that staff to pieces, O blind man!

  • او عصاتان داد تا پیش آمدید ** آن عصا از خشم هم بر وی زدید
  • He gave you the staff that ye might approach (Him): with that staff ye struck even at Him in your anger.

  • حلقه‌‌ی کوران به چه کار اندرید ** دیدبان را در میانه آورید
  • O company of the blind, what are ye doing? Bring the seer between (you and God)!

  • دامن او گیر کاو دادت عصا ** در نگر کادم چها دید از عصی‌‌ 2140
  • Lay hold of His skirt who gave thee the staff: consider what (dreadful) things Adam suffered from disobedience.

  • معجزه‌‌ی موسی و احمد را نگر ** چون عصا شد مار و استن با خبر
  • Consider the miracles of Moses and Ahmad (Mohammed), how the staff became a serpent and the pillar was endowed with knowledge.

  • از عصا ماری و از استن حنین ** پنج نوبت می‌‌زنند از بهر دین‌‌
  • From the staff (came) a serpent and from the pillar a moaning: they (the staff and the pillar) are beating (the drums of honour) five times daily for the sake of the Religion.

  • گرنه نامعقول بودی این مزه ** کی بدی حاجت به چندین معجزه‌‌
  • Unless this savour (perception of spiritual truths) were non-intellectual, how should all these miracles have been necessary?

  • هر چه معقول است عقلش می‌‌خورد ** بی‌‌بیان معجزه بی‌‌جر و مد
  • Whatever is intelligible, the intellect is swallowing (receiving) it without the evidence of miracles and without contention.

  • این طریق بکر نامعقول بین ** در دل هر مقبلی مقبول بین‌‌ 2145
  • This virgin (untrodden) Way deem unintelligible, deem (it) accepted in the heart of every fortunate (elect) one.

  • همچنان کز بیم آدم دیو و دد ** در جزایر در رمیدند از حسد
  • As in fear of Adam devil and wild beast fled to the islands, from envy,

  • هم ز بیم معجزات انبیا ** سر کشیده منکران زیر گیا
  • So in fear of the miracles of the prophets have the sceptics slunk away under the grass,

  • تا به ناموس مسلمانی زی‌‌اند ** در تسلس تا ندانی که کی‌‌اند
  • That they may live in hypocrisy with the reputation of being Moslems, and that you may not know who they are.

  • همچو قلابان بر آن نقد تباه ** نقره می‌‌مالند و نام پادشاه‌‌
  • Like counterfeiters, they smear the base coin with silver and (inscribe on it) the name of the King.

  • ظاهر الفاظشان توحید و شرع ** باطن آن همچو در نان تخم صرع‌‌ 2150
  • The outward form of their words is profession of the Divine Unity and the religion (of Islam): the inward meaning thereof is like darnel (?) seed in bread.

  • فلسفی را زهره نی تا دم زند ** دم زند دین حقش بر هم زند
  • The philosopher has not the stomach (courage) to breathe a word: if he utter a word, the true Religion will confound him.

  • دست و پای او جماد و جان او ** هر چه گوید آن دو در فرمان او
  • His hand and foot are inanimate, and whatever his spirit says (commands), those two are under its control.

  • با زبان گر چه که تهمت می‌‌نهند ** دست و پاهاشان گواهی می‌‌دهند
  • Albeit they (the sceptics) propound (reasons for) suspicion with their tongues, their hands and feet give testimony (against them).

  • اظهار معجزه‌‌ی پیغامبر علیه السلام به سخن آمدن سنگ ریزه در دست ابو جهل و گواهی دادن سنگ ریزه بر حقیقت محمد علیه الصلاة و السلام‌‌
  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, manifested a miracle by the speaking of the gravel in the hand of Abú Jahl—God's curse on him!—and by the gravel's bearing witness to the truth of Mohammed, on whom be God's blessing and peace.

  • سنگها اندر کف بو جهل بود ** گفت ای احمد بگو این چیست زود
  • There were some pebbles in the hand of Bú Jahl: “O Ahmad,” said he, “tell quickly what this is.

  • گر رسولی چیست در مشتم نهان ** چون خبر داری ز راز آسمان‌‌ 2155
  • If thou art the Messenger (of God), what is hidden in my fist? (Speak), since thou hast knowledge of the mysteries of Heaven.”

  • گفت چون خواهی بگویم کان چهاست ** یا بگویند آن که ما حقیم و راست‌‌
  • He said, “How dost thou wish (me to do)? Shall I say what those (hidden) things are, or shall they declare that I am truthful and right?”

  • گفت بو جهل این دوم نادرتر است ** گفت آری حق از آن قادرتر است‌‌
  • Bú Jahl said, “This second (thing) is more extraordinary.” “Yes,” said the Prophet, “(but) God hath greater power than that.”