- If you are my soul's familiar friend, my words full of (real) meaning are not (mere) assertion.
- گر تو هستی آشنای جان من ** نیست دعوی گفت معنی لان من
- If at midnight I say, “I am near you: come now, be not afraid of the night, for I am your kinsman,”
- گر بگویم نیم شب پیش توام ** هین مترس از شب که من خویش توام
- These two assertions are to you reality, since you recognise the voice of your own relative. 3575
- این دو دعوی پیش تو معنی بود ** چون شناسی بانگ خویشاوند خود
- Nearness and kinship were (only) two assertions, but both (of them) were reality to the good understanding.
- پیشی و خویشی دو دعوی بود لیک ** هر دو معنی بود پیش فهم نیک
- The proximity of the voice gives him (the hearer) testimony that these words spring from a near friend;
- قرب آوازش گواهی میدهد ** کاین دم از نزدیک یاری میجهد
- Moreover, (his) delight at (hearing) the voice of his kinsman has borne witness to the truthfulness of that dear relative.
- لذت آواز خویشاوند نیز ** شد گوا بر صدق آن خویش عزیز
- Again, the uninspired fool who in his ignorance does not know a stranger's voice from a kinsman's—
- باز بیالهام احمق کاو ز جهل ** مینداند بانگ بیگانه ز اهل
- To him his (the speaker's) words are (mere) assertion: his ignorance has become the source of his disbelief; 3580
- پیش او دعوی بود گفتار او ** جهل او شد مایهی انکار او
- (But) to him of keen insight, within whom are the (spiritual) lights, the very nature of this voice was just the (immediate evidence of its) reality.
- پیش زیرک کاندرونش نورهاست ** عین این آواز معنی بود راست
- Or (for example) one whose mother-tongue is Arabic says in Arabic, “I know the language of the Arabs.”
- یا به تازی گفت یک تازی زبان ** که همیدانم زبان تازیان