- 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
- From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance: hence to you the substance has become a plaything and of slight account.
- سایه را تو شخص میبینی ز جهل ** شخص از آن شد نزد تو بازی و سهل
- Wait till the Day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any veil (encumbrance).
- باش تا روزی که آن فکر و خیال ** بر گشاید بیحجابی پر و بال
- You will see that the mountains have become soft as wool, (and that) this Earth of hot and cold has become naught;
- کوهها بینی شده چون پشم نرم ** نیست گشته این زمین سرد و گرم
- You will see neither the sky nor the stars nor (any) existence but God, the One, the Living, the Loving. 1045
- نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود