- When squinting has been put aside (so that they see correctly), they become alike: the assertors of two or three become assertors of Unity.
- احولی چون دفع شد یکسان شوند ** دو سه گویان هم یکی گویان شوند
- If you are a ball in His polo-field, keep spinning round from (the blows of) His polo-stick.
- گر یکی گویی تو در میدان او ** گرد بر میگرد از چوگان او
- The ball becomes right and flawless (only) at the time when it is made to dance by the stroke of the King's hand.
- گوی آن گه راست و بینقصان شود ** که ز زخم دست شه رقصان شود
- Give ear heedfully to these (sayings), O squinting one: apply the eye-salve by way of the ear. 315
- گوش دار ای احول اینها را به هوش ** داروی دیده بکش از راه گوش
- Holy words, then, do not abide in blind hearts, (but) go to the Light whence they came,
- پس کلام پاک در دلهای کور ** مینپاید میرود تا اصل نور
- While the (guileful) spell of the Devil goes into crooked (perverse) hearts as a crooked shoe on to a crooked foot.
- و آن فسون دیو در دلهای کژ ** میرود چون کفش کژ در پای کژ
- Though you may learn Wisdom by rote, it becomes quit of you when you are unworthy (to receive it);
- گر چه حکمت را به تکرار آوری ** چون تو نااهلی شود از تو بری
- And though you write it and note it (down), and though you brag (about it) and expound it,
- ور چه بنویسی نشانش میکنی ** ور چه میلافی بیانش میکنی
- It withdraws its face from you, O disputatious one: it snaps its bonds and (takes) flight from you. 320
- او ز تو رو در کشد ای پر ستیز ** بندها را بگسلد وز تو گریز
- (But) if you read not and it sees your ardour (of love), Knowledge will be a bird docile (and obedient) to your hand.
- ور نخوانی و ببیند سوز تو ** علم باشد مرغ دستآموز تو