But it depends upon sacrificing the cow: know (that) the (spiritual) treasure (is found) in (sacrifice of) the cow, O you who dig in (holes and) corners!
لیک موقوفست بر قربان گاو ** گنج اندر گاو دان ای کنج‌کاو
Yesternight I ate something; otherwise, I would have given the reins entirely into the hand of your understanding’.
دوش چیزی خورده‌ام ور نه تمام ** دادمی در دست فهم تو زمام
(The words), ‘ yesternight I ate something,” are an idle tale: whatsoever comes (to pass) is from the secret chamber (of Divine Destiny).
دوش چیزی خورده‌ام افسانه است ** هرچه می‌آید ز پنهان خانه است
Wherefore have we fixed our eyes on (secondary) causes, if we have learned from those with beauteous eyes how to glance amorously?2515
چشم بر اسباب از چه دوختیم ** گر ز خوش‌چشمان کرشم آموختیم
Over the (secondary) causes there are other (primary) causes: do not look at the (secondary) cause; let thy gaze fall on that (primary cause).
هست بر اسباب اسبابی دگر ** در سبب منگر در آن افکن نظر
The prophets came in order to cut (the cords of secondary) causes: they flung their miracles at Saturn (in the Seventh Heaven).
انبیا در قطع اسباب آمدند ** معجزات خویش بر کیوان زدند
Without cause (means) they clove the sea asunder; without sowing they found heaps of corn.
بی‌سبب مر بحر را بشکافتند ** بی زراعت چاش گندم یافتند
Sand, too, was turned into flour by their work; goat’s hair became silk as it was pulled (from the hide).
ریگها هم آرد شد از سعیشان ** پشم بز ابریشم آمد کش‌کشان
The whole of the Qur’án consists in (is concerned with) the cutting off of (secondary) causes: (its theme is) the glory of the poor (prophet or saint) and the destruction of (those like) Abú Lahab.2520
جمله قرآن هست در قطع سبب ** عز درویش و هلاک بولهب
A swift drops two or three pebbles and shatters the mighty host of Abyssinia:
مرغ بابیلی دو سه سنگ افکند ** لشکر زفت حبش را بشکند