- Consider what comes of acting on trust in warfare: (it is vain) like the trust of dice-players. 2900
- بر توکل تا چه آید در نبرد ** چون توکل کردن اصحاب نرد
- But those insights that are not frozen (dense and dull) are nothing if not piercing and veil-rending.
- وآن نظرهایی که آن افسرده نیست ** جز رونده و جز درنده‌ی پرده نیست
- He (such a one) sees with his own eye at the present moment that which will come to pass in ten years.
- آنچ در ده سال خواهد آمدن ** این زمان بیند به چشم خویشتن
- Similarly, every one sees the unseen and the future, (both) good and evil, according to the measure of his insight.
- هم‌چنین هر کس به اندازه‌ی نظر ** غیب و مستقبل ببیند خیر وشر
- When the barrier in front and the barrier behind are removed, the eye penetrates and reads the tablet of the Unseen.
- چونک سد پیش و سد پس نماند ** شد گذاره چشم و لوح غیب خواند
- When he (such a one) looks back to the origin of existence, the past circumstances and beginning of existence display themselves (to him)— 2905
- چون نظر پس کرد تا بدو وجود ** ماجرا و آغاز هستی رو نمود
- (Namely), the disputation of the terrestrial angels with the (Divine) Majesty as to making our Father (Adam) the Vicegerent.
- بحث املاک زمین با کبریا ** در خلیفه کردن بابای ما
- When he casts his eye forward he sees plainly that which shall be (all that shall come to pass) till the (Last) Congregation.
- چون نظر در پیش افکند او بدید ** آنچ خواهد بود تا محشر پدید
- Therefore he sees back to the root of the root (the primal origin), and he sees forward clairvoyantly to the Day of Decision.
- پس ز پس می‌بیند او تا اصل اصل ** پیش می‌بیند عیان تا روز فصل
- Every one, according to the measure of his spiritual enlightenment, sees the things unseen in proportion to the polishing (of the heart's mirror).
- هر کسی اندازه‌ی روشن‌دلی ** غیب را بیند به قدر صیقلی