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
They said, “We all are averse to this life, (namely), that one should be living in relation to created beings and dead in relation to God.”
گفته بیزاریم جمله زین حیات ** کاو بود با خلق حی با حق موات
When he (any one) remains away from created beings, he is orphaned (single): for intimacy with God, the heart must be free (from relations with aught besides).
چون بماند از خلق گردد او یتیم ** انس حق را قلب میباید سلیم