The Friend is the guide on the way during (his friend's) advance: hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “My Companions are (like) the stars.”
نجم اندر ریگ و دریا رهنماست ** چشم اندر نجم نه کو مقتداست
The star shows the way in (desert) sands and on the sea: fix thine eye on the (spiritual) Star, for he is the one to be followed.
چشم را با روی او می‌دار جفت ** گرد منگیزان ز راه بحث و گفت 2645
Keep thine eye always paired with (unseparated from) his face: do not stir up dust by way of discussion and argument,
زانک گردد نجم پنهان زان غبار ** چشم بهتر از زبان با عثار
Because the Star will be hidden by that dust: the eye is better than the stumbling tongue.
تا بگوید او که وحیستش شعار ** کان نشاند گرد و ننگیزد غبار
(Be silent) in order that he may speak whose innermost garment is (Divine) inspiration which lays the dust and does not stir up trouble.
چون شد آدم مظهر وحی و وداد ** ناطقه‌ی او علم الاسما گشاد
When Adam became the theatre of (Divine) inspiration and love, his rational soul revealed (to him) the knowledge of the Names.
نام هر چیزی چنانک هست آن ** از صحیفه‌ی دل روی گشتش زبان
His tongue, (reading) from the page of his heart, recited the name of everything as it (really) is.
فاش می‌گفتی زبان از ریتش ** جمله را خاصیت و ماهیتش 2650
Through his (inward) vision his tongue was divulging the properties and quiddities of all things.
آنچنان نامی که اشیا را سزد ** نه چنانک حیز را خواند اسد
(It was bestowing) such a name as fits the things (named), not so as to call a catamite a lion (hero).
نوح نهصد سال در راه سوی ** بود هر روزیش تذکیر نوی
Nine hundred years Noah (walked) in the straight way, and every day he had a new sermon to preach.
لعل او گویا ز یاقوت القلوب ** نه رساله خوانده نه قوت القلوب
His ruby (lip) drew its eloquence from the corundum (precious jewel) in the hearts (of prophets): he had not read (mystical books like) the Risála or the Qútu ’l-qulúb.
وعظ را ناموخته هیچ از شروح ** بلک ینبوع کشوف و شرح روح
He had never learned to preach from (studying) commentaries; nay, (he learned) from the fountain of revelations and from the exposition (set forth) by the spirit—
زان میی کان می چو نوشیده شود ** آب نطق از گنگ جوشیده شود 2655
From the wine that (is so potent that) when it is quaffed the water of speech gushes from (the mouth of) the dumb,
طفل نوزاده شود حبر فصیح ** حکمت بالغ بخواند چون مسیح
And the new-born child becomes an eloquent divine and, like the Messiah (Christ), recites (words of) mature wisdom.