- (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
- God created pain and sorrow for the purpose that happiness might be made manifest by means of this opposite. 1130
- رنج و غم را حق پی آن آفرید ** تا بدین ضد خوش دلی آید پدید
- Hidden things, then, are manifested by means of their opposite; since God hath no opposite, He is hidden;
- پس نهانیها به ضد پیدا شود ** چون که حق را نیست ضد پنهان بود
- For the sight fell (first) on the light, then on the colour: opposite is made manifest by opposite, like Greeks and Ethiopians.
- که نظر بر نور بود آن گه به رنگ ** ضد به ضد پیدا بود چون روم و زنگ
- Therefore thou knewest light by its opposite: opposite reveals opposite in (the process of) coming forth.
- پس به ضد نور دانستی تو نور ** ضد ضد را می‌‌نماید در صدور
- The Light of God hath no opposite in (all) existence, that by means of that opposite it should be possible to make Him manifest:
- نور حق را نیست ضدی در وجود ** تا به ضد او را توان پیدا نمود
- Necessarily (therefore) our eyes do not perceive Him, though He perceives (us): see this (fact) from (the case of) Moses and the mountain (Sinai). 1135
- لاجرم أبصارنا لا تدرکه ** و هو یدرک بین تو از موسی و که
- Know that form springs from spirit (reality) as the lion from the jungle, or as voice and speech from thought.
- صورت از معنی چو شیر از بیشه دان ** یا چو آواز و سخن ز اندیشه دان
- This speech and voice arose from thought; thou knowest not where is the sea of thought,
- این سخن و آواز از اندیشه خاست ** تو ندانی بحر اندیشه کجاست
- But since thou hast seen that the waves of speech are fair, thou knowest that their sea also is noble.
- لیک چون موج سخن دیدی لطیف ** بحر آن دانی که باشد هم شریف