- 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
- How (then) should not the King be indescribably near? for intellectual search cannot find the way (to Him).
- قرب بی‌چون چون نباشد شاه را ** که نیابد بحث عقل آن راه را
- The motion that you have in your finger is not in front of your finger or behind it or to the left or to the right.
- نیست آن جنبش که در اصبع تراست ** پیش اصبع یا پسش یا چپ و راست
- At the time of sleep and death it (the motion) goes from it (the finger); at the time of waking it rejoins it.
- وقت خواب و مرگ از وی می‌رود ** وقت بیداری قرینش می‌شود
- By what way doth it come into your finger, (that motion) without which your finger hath no use? 3690
- از چه ره می‌آید اندر اصبعت ** که اصبعت بی او ندارد منفعت
- The light of the eye and pupil, by what other way than the six directions doth it come into your eye?
- نور چشم و مردمک در دیده‌ات ** از چه ره آمد به غیر شش جهت