- Again, the Creator, whom thou knowest, was leading him (Man) from the animal (state) towards humanity.
- باز از حیوان سوی انسانیش ** می‌کشید آن خالقی که دانیش
- Thus did he advance from clime to clime (from one world of being to another), till he has now become intelligent and wise and mighty.
- هم‌چنین اقلیم تا اقلیم رفت ** تا شد اکنون عاقل و دانا و زفت
- He hath no remembrance of his former intelligences (souls); from this (human) intelligence also there is a migration to be made by him,
- عقلهای اولینش یاد نیست ** هم ازین عقلش تحول کردنیست
- That he may escape from this intelligence full of greed and self-seeking and may behold a hundred thousand intelligences most marvellous.
- تا رهد زین عقل پر حرص و طلب ** صد هزاران عقل بیند بوالعجب
- Though he fell asleep and became oblivious of the past, how should they leave him in that self-forgetfulness? 3650
- گر چو خفته گشت و شد ناسی ز پیش ** کی گذارندش در آن نسیان خویش
- From that sleep they will bring him back again to wakefulness, that he may mock at his (present) state,
- باز از آن خوابش به بیداری کشند ** که کند بر حالت خود ریش‌خند
- Saying, “What was that sorrow I was suffering in my sleep? How did I forget the states of truth (the real experiences)?
- که چه غم بود آنک می‌خوردم به خواب ** چون فراموشم شد احوال صواب
- How did not I know that that sorrow and disease is the effect of sleep and is illusion and phantasy?”
- چون ندانستم که آن غم و اعتلال ** فعل خوابست و فریبست و خیال
- Even so this world, which is the sleeper's dream: the sleeper fancies that it is really enduring,
- هم‌چنان دنیا که حلم نایمست ** خفته پندارد که این خود دایمست
- Till on a sudden there shall rise the dawn of Death and he shall be delivered from the darkness of opinion and falsehood. 3655
- تا بر آید ناگهان صبح اجل ** وا رهد از ظلمت ظن و دغل