- If your sensuous ear is fit for (understanding) the letter (of the Revelation), know that your ear that receives the occult (meaning) is deaf. 3395
- گوش حس تو به حرف ار در خور است ** دان که گوش غیب گیر تو کر است
- The first to bring analogical reasoning to bear against the Revealed Text was Iblís.
- اول کسی که در مقابله‌‌ی نص قیاس آورد ابلیس بود
- The first person who produced these paltry analogies in the presence of the Lights of God was Iblís.
- اول آن کس کاین قیاسکها نمود ** پیش انوار خدا ابلیس بود
- He said, “Beyond doubt fire is superior to earth: I am of fire, and he (Adam) is of dingy earth.
- گفت نار از خاک بی‌‌شک بهتر است ** من ز نار و او ز خاک اکدر است
- Let us, then, judge by comparing the secondary with its principal: he is of darkness, I of radiant light.”
- پس قیاس فرع بر اصلش کنیم ** او ز ظلمت ما ز نور روشنیم
- God said, “Nay, but on the contrary there shall be no relationships : asceticism and piety shall be the (sole) avenue to pre-eminence.”
- گفت حق نی بل که لا انساب شد ** زهد و تقوی فضل را محراب شد
- This is not the heritage of the fleeting world, so that thou shouldst gain it by ties of relationship: ’tis a spiritual (heritage). 3400
- این نه میراث جهان فانی است ** که به انسابش بیابی جانی است
- Nay, these things are the heritage of the prophets; the inheritors of these are the spirits of the devout.
- بلکه این میراثهای انبیاست ** وارث این جانهای اتقیاست
- The son of Bú Jahl became a true believer for all to see; the son of the prophet Noah became one of those who lost the way.
- پور آن بو جهل شد مومن عیان ** پور آن نوح نبی از گمرهان
- “The child of earth (Adam) became illumined like the moon; thou art the child of fire: get thee gone with thy face black (in disgrace)!”
- زاده‌‌ی خاکی منور شد چو ماه ** زاده‌‌ی آتش تویی رو رو سیاه
- The wise man has made (use of) such reasonings and investigation on a cloudy day or at night for the sake of (finding) the qibla;
- این قیاسات و تحری روز ابر ** یا به شب مر قبله را کرده ست حبر