- The angels purchase Adam's teaching; the devils and Jinn are not privileged to receive it.
- درس آدم را فرشته مشتری ** محرم درسش نه دیو است و پری
- Adam, inform them of the Names, give (them) teaching, explain the mysteries of God, hair by hair.
- آدم أنبئهم بأسما درس گو ** شرح کن اسرار حق را مو به مو
- Such a person as is short-sighted, plunged in variability and without steadfastness, 3270
- آن چنان کس را که کوته بین بود ** در تلون غرق و بیتمکین بود
- I called a “mouse,” because his place is in the earth (of the body): earth is the place of living for the mouse.
- موش گفتم ز انکه در خاک است جاش ** خاک باشد موش را جای معاش
- He knows (many) ways, but (only) underground: he has pierced the earth in every direction.
- راهها داند ولی در زیر خاک ** هر طرف او خاک را کرده ست چاک
- The mouse-soul is naught but a nibbler: to the mouse is given a mind proportionate to its need,
- نفس موشی نیست الا لقمه رند ** قدر حاجت موش را عقلی دهند
- Because without need the Almighty God does not give anything to any one.
- ز انکه بیحاجت خداوند عزیز ** مینبخشد هیچ کس را هیچ چیز
- If the earth had not been needed by the (inhabitants of the) world, the Lord of all beings would not have created any (earth); 3275
- گر نبودی حاجت عالم زمین ** نافریدی هیچ رب العالمین
- And if this quaking earth had not needed mountains, He would not have created them sublime (as they are);
- وین زمین مضطرب محتاج کوه ** گر نبودی نافریدی پر شکوه
- And if there had not been need of the heavenly spheres also, He would not have created from non-existence the Seven Skies.
- ور نبودی حاجت افلاک هم ** هفت گردون نافریدی از عدم