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  • He never reflects that, wherever there is anything external, that (object) gives information of hidden wise purposes.
  • هیچ نندیشد که هر جا ظاهریست ** آن ز حکمتهای پنهان مخبریست

  • The usefulness of every external object is, indeed, internal: it is latent, like the beneficial quality in medicines. 2880
  • فایده‌ی هر ظاهری خود باطنیست ** هم‌چو نفع اندر دواها کامنست

  • Commentary on the Verse, "And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them save with real ground": (i.e.) "I did not create them for the sake of just this which ye see; nay, but for the sake of the essential meaning and everlasting providence which ye see not."
  • تفسیر این آیت کی و ما خلقنا السموات والارض و ما بینهما الا بالحق نیافریدمشان بهر همین کی شما می‌بینید بلک بهر معنی و حکمت باقیه کی شما نمی‌بینید آن را

  • Does any painter paint a beautiful picture for the sake of the picture itself, without hope of conferring benefit?
  • هیچ نقاشی نگارد زین نقش ** بی امید نفع بهر عین نقش

  • Nay, (he paints it) for the sake of guests and young people who by diverting themselves (with it) may be relieved from cares.
  • بلک بهر میهمانان و کهان ** که به فرجه وارهند از اندهان

  • From his picture (arises) the joy of children and the remembering of departed friend's by their friends.
  • شادی بچگان و یاد دوستان ** دوستان رفته را از نقش آن

  • Does any potter make a pot in haste for the sake of the pot itself and not in hope of the water?
  • هیچ کوزه‌گر کند کوزه شتاب ** بهر عین کوزه نه بر بوی آب

  • Does any bowl-maker make a finished bowl for the sake of the bowl itself and not for the sake of the food? 2885
  • هیچ کاسه گر کند کاسه تمام ** بهر عین کاسه نه بهر طعام

  • Does any calligrapher write artistically for the sake of the writing itself and not for the sake of the reading?
  • هیچ خطاطی نویسد خط به فن ** بهر عین خط نه بهر خواندن

  • The external form is for the sake of the unseen form; and that took shape for the sake of another unseen (form).
  • نقش ظاهر بهر نقش غایبست ** وان برای غایب دیگر ببست

  • Count up these corollaries to the third, fourth, or tenth in proportion to (your) insight.
  • تا سوم چارم دهم بر می‌شمر ** این فواید را به مقدار نظر