To weave gold-embroidered robes, to win pearls from the bottom of the sea,1515
جامه‌های زرکشی را بافتن ** درها از قعر دریا یافتن
The fine artifices of geometry or astronomy, and the science of medicine and philosophy—
خرده‌کاریهای علم هندسه ** یا نجوم و علم طب و فلسفه
Which are connected only with this world and have no way (of mounting) up to the Seventh Heaven—
که تعلق با همین دنیاستش ** ره به هفتم آسمان بر نیستش
All this is the science of building the (worldly) stable which is the pillar (basis) of the existence of (persons like) the ox and the camel.
این همه علم بنای آخرست ** که عماد بود گاو و اشترست
For the sake of preserving the animal for a few days, these crazy fools have given to those (arts and sciences) the name of “mysteries.”
بهر استبقای حیوان چند روز ** نام آن کردند این گیجان رموز
The knowledge of the Way to God and the knowledge of His dwelling place—that only the owner of the heart knows, or (you may say) his heart (itself).1520
علم راه حق و علم منزلش ** صاحب دل داند آن را با دلش
He (God), then, created in this composite fashion the goodly animal and made him familiar with knowledge.
پس درین ترکیب حیوان لطیف ** آفرید و کرد با دانش الیف
That (bestial) class (of men) He named “like the cattle,” for where is the resemblance between waking and sleep?
نام کالانعام کرد آن قوم را ** زانک نسبت کو بیقظه نوم را
The animal spirit hath naught but sleep (ignorance): the (bestial) class of men possess inverted sense-perceptions.
روح حیوانی ندارد غیر نوم ** حسهای منعکس دارند قوم
(When) waking comes, the animal sleep is no more, and he (the enlightened man) reads the (former) inversion of his senses from the tablet (of his clairvoyant consciousness)—
یقظه آمد نوم حیوانی نماند ** انعکاس حس خود از لوح خواند