The Spirit is lost (to view) because of its being so manifest and near: how, having thy belly full of water, art thou dry-lipped like a jar?1120
جان ز پیدایی و نزدیکی است گم ** چون شکم پر آب و لب خشکی چو خم
How wilt thou see red and green and russet, unless before (seeing) these three (colours) thou see the light?
کی ببینی سرخ و سبز و فور را ** تا نبینی پیش از این سه نور را
But since thy mind was lost (absorbed) in (perception of) the colour, those colours became to thee a veil from (debarred thee from contemplating) the light.
لیک چون در رنگ گم شد هوش تو ** شد ز نور آن رنگها رو پوش تو
Inasmuch as at night those colours were hidden, thou sawest that thy vision of the colour was (derived) from the light.
چون که شب آن رنگها مستور بود ** پس بدیدی دید رنگ از نور بود
There is no vision of colour without the external light: even so it is with the colour of inward phantasy.
نیست دید رنگ بی‌‌نور برون ** همچنین رنگ خیال اندرون
This outward (light) is (derived) from the sun and from Suhá, while the inward (light) is from the reflexion of the beams of (Divine) Glory.1125
این برون از آفتاب و از سها ** و اندرون از عکس انوار علی
The light which gives light to the eye is in truth the light of the heart: the light of the eye is produced by the light of hearts.
نور نور چشم خود نور دل است ** نور چشم از نور دلها حاصل است
Again, the light which gives light to the heart is the Light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.
باز نور نور دل نور خداست ** کاو ز نور عقل و حس پاک و جداست
At night there was no light and thou didst not see the colours; then it (the light) was made manifest by the opposite of light (by darkness).
شب نبد نوری ندیدی رنگها ** پس به ضد نور پیدا شد ترا
(First) comes the seeing of light, then the seeing of colour; and this thou knowest immediately by the opposite of light (darkness).
دیدن نور است آن گه دید رنگ ** وین به ضد نور دانی بی‌‌درنگ