- Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;
- خلق بیپایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین
- Small is that thought in the people's eyes, but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.
- هست آن اندیشه پیش خلق خرد ** لیک چون سیلی جهان را خورد و برد
- So, when you see that from a thought every craft in the world (arises and) subsists—
- پس چو میبینی که از اندیشهای ** قایم است اندر جهان هر پیشهای
- (That) houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers, 1035
- خانهها و قصرها و شهرها ** کوهها و دشتها و نهرها
- Earth and ocean as well as sun and sky, are living (derive their life) from it as fishes from the sea—
- هم زمین و بحر و هم مهر و فلک ** زنده از وی همچو کز دریا سمک
- Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought (only) as an ant?
- پس چرا از ابلهی پیش تو کور ** تن سلیمان است و اندیشه چو مور
- To your eye the mountain appears great: (to you) thought is like a mouse, and the mountain (like) a wolf.
- مینماید پیش چشمت که بزرگ ** هست اندیشه چو موش و کوه گرگ
- The (material) world in your eyes is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,
- عالم اندر چشم تو هول و عظیم ** ز ابر و رعد و چرخ داری لرز و بیم
- While in regard to the world of thought, O less (lower) than the ass, you are secure and indifferent as a witless stone, 1040
- وز جهان فکرتی ای کم ز خر ** ایمن و غافل چو سنگ بیخبر
- Because you are a (mere) shape and have no portion of intelligence; you are not of human nature, you are an ass's colt.
- ز انکه نقشی وز خرد بیبهرهای ** آدمی خو نیستی خر کرهای