(So) would the light of the Criterion (Universal Reason), (if it shone into our hearts), distinguish for us truth and falsehood and separate them mote by mote;
نور فرقان فرق کردی بهر ما ** ذره ذره حق و باطل را جدا
The light of the (Divine) Pearl would become the light of our eyes: both the question and the answer would be (would come) from us.
نور گوهر نور چشم ما شدی ** هم سؤال و هم جواب از ما بدی
(But) you have made your eyes awry and seen the moon's disk double: this gazing in perplexity is like the question.
چشم کژ کردی دو دیدی قرص ماه ** چون سؤال است این نظر در اشتباه
Make your eyes straight in the moonshine, so that you may see the moon as one. Lo, (that is) the answer.855
راست گردان چشم را در ماهتاب ** تا یکی بینی تو مه را نک جواب
Your thought, (namely), "Do not see awry, look well!" is just the light and radiance of that Pearl.
فکرتت که کژ مبین نیکو نگر ** هست آن فکرت شعاع آن گهر
Whenever an answer comes to the heart through the ear, the eye says, “Hear it from me; let that (answer given through the ear) alone!”
هر جوابی کان ز گوش آید به دل ** چشم گفت از من شنو آن را بهل
The ear is a go-between, while the eye is possessed of union (immediate vision); the eye has direct experience (of reality), while the ear has (only) words (doctrine).
گوش دلاله ست و چشم اهل وصال ** چشم صاحب حال و گوش اصحاب قال
In the ear's hearing there is a transformation of qualities; in the eyes' seeing there is a transformation of essence.
در شنود گوش تبدیل صفات ** در عیان دیدها تبدیل ذات
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words (alone), seek to be cooked (by the fire itself), and do not abide in the certainty (of knowledge derived from others).860
ز آتش ار علمت یقین شد از سخن ** پختگی جو در یقین منزل مکن
There is no intuitive (actual) certainty until you burn; (if) you desire this certainty, sit down in the fire.
تا نسوزی نیست آن عین الیقین ** این یقین خواهی در آتش در نشین