- When the sucking babe is born, at first it keeps silence for a while, it is all ear.
- کودک اول چون بزاید شیر نوش ** مدتی خامش بود او جمله گوش
- For a while it must close its lips (and refrain) from speech, until it learns to speak;
- مدتی می‌‌بایدش لب دوختن ** از سخن تا او سخن آموختن
- And if it is not (silent like) an ear but makes babbling sounds, it makes itself the dumbest creature in the world. 1625
- ور نباشد گوش و تی‌‌تی می‌‌کند ** خویشتن را گنگ گیتی می‌‌کند
- He that is deaf by nature, he that had no ear at the beginning, is dumb: how should he burst into speech?
- کر اصلی کش نبود آغاز گوش ** لال باشد کی کند در نطق جوش
- Since, in order to speak, one must first hear, do thou come to speech by the way of hearing.
- ز آن که اول سمع باید نطق را ** سوی منطق از ره سمع اندر آ
- And enter ye the houses by their doors, and seek ye the ends in their causes.
- ادخلوا الأبیات من أبوابها ** و اطلبوا الأغراض فی أسبابها
- There is no speech independent of the way of hearing except the speech of the Creator who is without want.
- نطق کان موقوف راه سمع نیست ** جز که نطق خالق بی‌‌طمع نیست
- He is the Originator, He follows no master; He is the support of all things, He hath no support, 1630
- مبدع است او تابع استاد نی ** مسند جمله و را اسناد نی
- (While) the rest, (engaged) in handicrafts and talk, follow a master and have need of a pattern.
- باقیان هم در حرف هم در مقال ** تابع استاد و محتاج مثال
- If thou art not alien to (unfit to hear) this discourse, assume the frock of a dervish and (take to shedding) tears in some deserted place,
- زین سخن گر نیستی بیگانه‌‌ای ** دلق و اشکی گیر در ویرانه‌‌ای