- Regard (judge of) me from me (with my eyes) for one moment, that thou mayst behold a spacious region beyond (phenomenal) existence,
- بنگر اندر من ز من یک ساعتی ** تا ورای کون بینی ساحتی
- And mayst be delivered from straitness and dishonour and renown (good and evil repute) and behold love within love, and peace (be with thee)!
- وا رهی از تنگی و از ننگ و نام ** عشق اندر عشق بینی والسلام
- Then, when thou hast been delivered from the body, thou wilt know that ear and nose can become eye. 2400
- پس بدانی چونک رستی از بدن ** گوش و بینی چشم میداند شدن
- That sweet-tongued (spiritual) king has said with truth that every hair of gnostics becomes an eye.
- راست گفتست آن شه شیرینزبان ** چشم گرد مو به موی عارفان
- Certainly the eye had no eye (vision) at first: it was an embryo of flesh in the womb.
- چشم را چشمی نبود اول یقین ** در رحم بود او جنین گوشتین
- Deem not the fat (the white of the eye) to be the cause of sight, O son; otherwise none would see (visible) forms in dream.
- علت دیدن مدان پیه ای پسر ** ورنه خواب اندر ندیدی کس صور
- The genie and the demon see the like, and there is no fat in the sight-organ of either.
- آن پری و دیو میبیند شبیه ** نیست اندر دیدگاه هر دو پیه
- In fact there was (originally) no relationship between light and the fat (of the eye): the loving Creator gave them relationship. 2405
- نور را با پیه خود نسبت نبود ** نسبتش بخشید خلاق ودود
- Adam is of earth, (but) how does he resemble earth? The genie is of fire without any participation (of the other elements);
- آدمست از خاک کی ماند به خاک ** جنیست از نار بیهیچ اشتراک
- (But) the genie is not similar (in form) to fire, though when thou considerest (thou wilt acknowledge that) it is his origin.
- نیست مانندای آتش آن پری ** گر چه اصلش اوست چون میبنگری