The fault is (in him) who sees nothing but fault: how should the Pure Spirit of the Invisible see fault?1995
عیب باشد کاو نبیند جز که عیب ** عیب کی بیند روان پاک غیب
Fault arises (only) in relation to the ignorant creature, not in relation to the Lord of favour (clemency).
عیب شد نسبت به مخلوق جهول ** نی به نسبت با خداوند قبول
Infidelity, too, is wisdom in relation to the Creator, (but) when you impute it to us, infidelity is a noxious thing.
کفر هم نسبت به خالق حکمت است ** چون به ما نسبت کنی کفر آفت است
And if there be one fault together with a hundred advantages (excellences), it resembles the wood (woody stalk) in the sugarcane.
ور یکی عیبی بود با صد حیات ** بر مثال چوب باشد در نبات
Both (sugar and stalk) alike are put into the scales, because they both are sweet like body and soul.
در ترازو هر دو را یکسان کشند ** ز آن که آن هر دو چو جسم و جان خوشند
Not idly, therefore, the great (mystics) said this: “The body of the holy ones (the saints) is essentially pure as (their) spirit.”2000
پس بزرگان این نگفتند از گزاف ** جسم پاکان عین جان افتاد صاف
Their speech and soul and form, all (this) is absolute spirit without (external) trace.
گفتشان و نفسشان و نقششان ** جمله جان مطلق آمد بی‌‌نشان
The spirit that regards them with enmity is a mere body; like the plus in (the game called) nard, it is a mere name.
جان دشمن دارشان جسم است صرف ** چون زیاد از نرد او اسم است صرف
That one (the body of the enemy of the saints) went into the earth (grave) and became earth entirely; this (holy body) went into the salt and became entirely pure—
آن به خاک اندر شد و کل خاک شد ** وین نمک اندر شد و کل پاک شد