’Tis (a journey of) three thousand five hundred years to Saturn; (yet) his special property acts incessantly (upon the earth).
سه هزاران سال و پانصد تا زحل ** دم بدم خاصیتش آرد عمل
He (God) rolls it up like a shadow at the return (of the sun): in the sun's presence what is (what avails) the length of the shadow?
در همش آرد چو سایه در ایاب ** طول سایه چیست پیش آفتاب
And from the pure star like souls replenishment is ever coming to the stars of heaven.
وز نفوس پاک اختروش مدد ** سوی اخترهای گردون می‌رسد
The outward (aspect) of those stars is our ruler, (but) our inward (essence) has become the ruler of the sky.520
ظاهر آن اختران قوام ما ** باطن ما گشته قوام سما
Explaining that (while) philosophers say that Man is the microcosm, theosophists say that Man is the macrocosm, the reason being that philosophy is confined to the phenomenal form of Man, whereas theosophy is connected with the essential truth of his true nature.
در بیان آنک حکما گویند آدمی عالم صغریست و حکمای اللهی گویند آدمی عالم کبریست زیرا آن علم حکما بر صورت آدمی مقصور بود و علم این حکما در حقیقت حقیقت آدمی موصول بود
Therefore in form thou art the microcosm, therefore in reality thou art the macrocosm.
پس به صورت عالم اصغر توی ** پس به معنی عالم اکبر توی
Externally the branch is the origin of the fruit; intrinsically the branch came into existence for the sake of the fruit.
ظاهر آن شاخ اصل میوه است ** باطنا بهر ثمر شد شاخ هست
If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?
گر نبودی میل و اومید ثمر ** کی نشاندی باغبان بیخ شجر
Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even) if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.
پس به معنی آن شجر از میوه زاد ** گر به صورت از شجر بودش ولاد
Hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “Adam and the (other) prophets are (following) behind me under (my) banner.”525
مصطفی زین گفت که آدم و انبیا ** خلف من باشند در زیر لوا
For this reason that master of (all) sorts of knowledge has uttered the allegorical saying, “We are the last and the foremost.”
بهر این فرموده است آن ذو فنون ** رمز نحن اخرون السابقون