ور نباشد طفل را گوش رشد ** گفت مادر نشنود گنگی شود

And if the infant have not a right (rightly-hearing) ear, it does not hear its mother's words and becomes a mute.

دایما هر کر اصلی گنگ بود ** ناطق آنکس شد که از مادر شنود

Every one born deaf has always been dumb: (only) that one who heard (speech) from his mother became a speaker.

دانک گوش کر و گنگ از آفتیست ** که پذیرای دم و تعلیم نیست 3040

Know that the deaf ear and the dumb man are the result of a certain defect; for it (the deaf ear) is not capable of (hearing) words and being taught.

آنک بی‌تعلیم بد ناطق خداست ** که صفات او ز علتها جداست

The (only) one that possessed speech without being taught is God, whose attributes are separated (exempt) from infirmities,

یا چو آدم کرده تلقینش خدا ** بی‌حجاب مادر و دایه و ازا

Or one like Adam whom God instructed without the screen (mediation) of mother and nurse and necessaries,

یا مسیحی که به تعلیم ودود ** در ولادت ناطق آمد در وجود

Or the Messiah (Christ) who, through being taught by the Loving (God), at his birth came speaking into the world,

از برای دفع تهمت در ولاد ** که نزادست از زنا و از فساد

For the purpose of repelling the suspicion as to his birth (and proving) that he was not born of fornication and wickedness.

جنبشی بایست اندر اجتهاد ** تا که دوغ آن روغن از دل باز داد 3045

A (great) shaking was required in the effort that the buttermilk might render back that butter from its (inmost) heart.

روغن اندر دوغ باشد چون عدم ** دوغ در هستی برآورده علم

The butter in the buttermilk is (invisible) like non-existence; the buttermilk has raised its banner (has become manifest) in existence.

آنک هستت می‌نماید هست پوست ** وآنک فانی می‌نماید اصل اوست

That which seems to you to be (really) existent is (mere) skin, while that which seems to have perished—that (in reality) is the root.

دوغ روغن ناگرفتست و کهن ** تا بنگزینی بنه خرجش مکن

The buttermilk has not (yet) taken (the form of) butter and is old: lay it (in store) and do not squander it till you pick out (the butter from it).

هین بگردانش به دانش دست دست ** تا نماید آنچ پنهان کرده است

Hark, turn it knowingly from hand to hand (side to side), that it may reveal that which it has hidden;

زآنک این فانی دلیل باقیست ** لابه‌ی مستان دلیل ساقیست 3050

For this perishable (body) is a proof of the everlasting (spirit): the maundering of the intoxicated is a proof of (the existence of) the Cupbearer.

مثال دیگر هم درین معنی

Another parable on the same subject.

هست بازیهای آن شیر علم ** مخبری از بادهای مکتتم

The gambols of the lion on the banner are indicative of winds concealed (from view).

گر نبودی جنبش آن بادها ** شیر مرده کی بجستی در هوا

If there were not the movement of those winds, how would the dead lion leap into the air?

زان شناسی باد را گر آن صباست ** یا دبورست این بیان آن خفاست

By that (means) you know whether the wind is the east-wind or the westwind: this (movement of the lion) is the explanation of that occult matter.

این بدن مانند آن شیر علم ** فکر می‌جنباند او را دم به دم

This body is like the lion on the banner: thought is causing it to move continually.

فکر کان از مشرق آید آن صباست ** وآنک از مغرب دبور با وباست 3055

The thought that comes from the east is (as) the (refreshing) east-wind, and that which (comes) from the west is (as) the west-wind fraught with pestilence.

مشرق این باد فکرت دیگرست ** مغرب این باد فکرت زان سرست

The east of this wind of thought is different; the west of this wind of thought is from Yonder side.

مه جمادست و بود شرقش جماد ** جان جان جان بود شرق فاد

The moon is inanimate, and its east is inanimate: the heart's east is the soul of the soul of Soul.

شرق خورشیدی که شد باطن‌فروز ** قشر و عکس آن بود خورشید روز

The east of that Sun which illumines the inward part—the sun of day is (only) the husk and reflexion thereof;

زآنک چون مرده بود تن بی‌لهب ** پیش او نه روز بنماید نه شب

For when the body is dead (and) without the (vital) flame, neither day nor night appears to it;

ور نباشد آن چو این باشد تمام ** بی‌شب و بی روز دارد انتظام 3060

But though it (the flame) be not (there), (yet) when this (spiritual Sun) is (present) in perfection, it (the Sun) maintains itself intact without night and day,

هم‌چنانک چشم می‌بیند به خواب ** بی‌مه و خورشید ماه و آفتاب

Just as the eye, without moon and sun, sees moon and sun in dream.

نوم ما چون شد اخ الموت ای فلان ** زین برادر آن برادر را بدان

Since our sleep is the brother of death, O such and such, know (the difference of) that brother from this brother.