- For the King, whom they were not seeing openly, was (always) with them secretly in their lives.”
- که آن شهی که می‌ندیدندیش فاش ** بود با ایشان نهان اندر معاش
- Inasmuch as the intellect is with thee, overseeing thy body, and though this perception of thine is unable to apprehend it,
- چون خرد با تست مشرف بر تنت ** گر چه زو قاصر بود این دیدنت
- (Yet) its perception, O such and such, is not unable to apprehend thy motion and rest when it tries,
- نیست قاصر دیدن او ای فلان ** از سکون و جنبشت در امتحان
- What wonder if the Creator of that intellect too is with thee? How art thou not conceding (the truth of that)? 3680
- چه عجب گر خالق آن عقل نیز ** با تو باشد چون نه‌ای تو مستجیز
- He (some one) pays no heed to his intellect and embarks on evil; afterwards his intellect rebukes him.
- از خرد غافل شود بر بد تند ** بعد آن عقلش ملامت می‌کند
- You forgot your intellect, your intellect did not (forget you), since that act of rebuke is the result of its presence (attention).
- تو شدی غافل ز عقلت عقل نی ** کز حضورستش ملامت کردنی
- If it had not been present (attentive) and had been heedless, how should it have slapped you in rebuke?
- گر نبودی حاضر و غافل بدی ** در ملامت کی ترا سیلی زدی
- And if your carnal soul had not been inattentive to it, how should your madness and heat have acted thus?
- ور ازو غافل نبودی نفس تو ** کی چنان کردی جنون و تفس تو
- Hence you and your intellect are like the astrolabe: by this means you may know the nearness of the Sun of existence. 3685
- پس تو و عقلت چو اصطرلاب بود ** زین بدانی قرب خورشید وجود
- Your intellect is indescribably near to you: it is neither to the left nor to the right nor behind nor in front.
- قرب بی‌چونست عقلت را به تو ** نیست چپ و راست و پس یا پیش رو