When the dog has learned the knowledge (imparted to him), he has escaped from error: he hunts lawful prey in the jungles.
علم چون آموخت سگ رست از ضلال ** میکند در بیشهها صید حلال
When the dog has become knowing (‘álim), he marches briskly; when the dog has become a knower of God (‘árif), he becomes (as) the Men of the Cave.
سگ چو عالم گشت شد چالاک زحف ** سگ چو عارف گشت شد ز اصحاب کهف
The dog has come to know who is the Master of the hunt. O God, what is that knowing light?2365
سگ شناسا شد که میر صید کیست ** ای خدا آن نور اشناسنده چیست
(If) the blind man knows it not, ’tis not from (his) having no eye (to see); nay, ’tis because he is drunken with ignorance.
کور نشناسد نه از بیچشمی است ** بلکه این ز آن است کز جهل است مست
Truly, the blind man is not more eyeless than the earth; and this earth, by the grace of God, has become a seer of (God's) enemies.
نیست خود بیچشم تر کور از زمین ** این زمین از فضل حق شد خصم بین
It saw the Light of Moses and showed kindness to Moses; (but) Qárún it engulfed, (for) it knew Qárún.
نور موسی دید و موسی را نواخت ** خسف قارون کرد و قارون را شناخت
It quaked for the destruction of every false pretender: it understood (the words that came) from God, “O earth, swallow (thy water)!”
رجف کرد اندر هلاک هر دعی ** فهم کرد از حق که یا أرض ابلعی
Earth and water and air and sparking fire are unacquainted with us, but acquainted with God.2370
خاک و آب و باد و نار با شرر ** بیخبر با ما و با حق با خبر
Contrariwise, we are aware of (things) other than God, (but) unaware (heedless) of God and of so many warners (prophets).
ما بعکس آن ز غیر حق خبیر ** بیخبر از حق و از چندین نذیر
As a necessary consequence, they (the elements) all shrank from (accepting) it (the trust offered to them): (the edge of) their impulse to partake of life was blunted.
لاجرم أشفقن منها جملهشان ** کند شد ز آمیز حیوان حملهشان