- The speech of water, the speech of earth, and the speech of mud are apprehended by the senses of them that have hearts (the mystics).
- نطق آب و نطق خاک و نطق گل ** هست محسوس حواس اهل دل
- The philosopher who disbelieves in the moaning pillar is a stranger to the senses of the saints. 3280
- فلسفی کاو منکر حنانه است ** از حواس اولیا بیگانه است
- He says that the beam (influence) of melancholia brings many phantasies into people's minds.
- گوید او که پرتو سودای خلق ** بس خیالات آورد در رای خلق
- Nay, but the reflexion of his wickedness and infidelity cast this idle fancy of scepticism upon him.
- بلکه عکس آن فساد و کفر او ** این خیال منکری را زد بر او
- The philosopher comes to deny the existence of the Devil, and at the same time he is possessed by a devil.
- فلسفی مر دیو را منکر شود ** در همان دم سخرهی دیوی بود
- If thou hast not seen the Devil, behold thyself: without diabolic possession there is no blueness in the forehead.
- گر ندیدی دیو را خود را ببین ** بیجنون نبود کبودی بر جبین
- Whosoever hath doubt and perplexity in his heart, he in this world is a secret philosopher. 3285
- هر که را در دل شک و پیچانی است ** در جهان او فلسفی پنهانی است
- He is professing firm belief, but some time or other that philosophical vein will blacken his face (bring him to shame).
- مینماید اعتقاد و گاه گاه ** آن رگ فلسف کند رویش سیاه
- Take care, O ye Faithful! for that (vein) is in you: in you is many an infinite world.
- الحذر ای مومنان کان در شماست ** در شما بس عالم بیمنتهاست
- In thee are all the two-and-seventy sects: woe (to thee) if one day they gain the upper hand over thee.
- جمله هفتاد و دو ملت در تو است ** وه که روزی آن بر آرد از تو دست