- The eye of horses, whithersoever you call it except to grass and pasture, says, “Nay, why (should we go)?”
- چشم اسبان جز گیاه و جز چرا ** هر کجا خوانی بگوید نه چرا
- The Light of God mounts (as a rider) on the sensuous eye, and then the soul yearns after God. 1290
- نور حق بر نور حس راکب شود ** آن گهی جان سوی حق راغب شود
- How should the riderless horse know the marks of the road? The King is needed (to ride it) in order that it may know the King's road.
- اسب بیراکب چه داند رسم راه ** شاه باید تا بداند شاه راه
- Go towards a sense on which the Light is riding: that Light is a good companion for the sense.
- سوی حسی رو که نورش راکب است ** حس را آن نور نیکو صاحب است
- The Light of God is an ornament to the light of sense: this is the meaning of light upon light.
- نور حس را نور حق تزیین بود ** معنی نور علی نور این بود
- The light of sense draws (a man) towards earth; the Light of God bears him aloft,
- نور حسی میکشد سوی ثری ** نور حقش میبرد سوی علی
- Because sensible things are a lower world: the Light of God is (as) the sea, and the sense as a dew-drop. 1295
- ز انکه محسوسات دونتر عالمی است ** نور حق دریا و حس چون شبنمی است
- But that which rides on it (on the sense) is not manifested save by good effects and words.
- لیک پیدا نیست آن راکب بر او ** جز به آثار و به گفتار نکو
- The sensuous light, which is gross and heavy, is hidden in the black of the eyes.
- نور حسی کاو غلیظ است و گران ** هست پنهان در سواد دیدهگان
- Inasmuch as you are not seeing the light of sense with (your) eye, how should you see the light of that religious one (the saint) with (your) eye?
- چون که نور حس نمیبینی ز چشم ** چون ببینی نور آن دینی ز چشم