He (Hilál) said, “How is a blind filthy dog that sprang up from sleep and found itself to be a lion?—
گفت چون باشد سگی کوری پلید ** جست او از خواب خود را شیر دید
Not such a lion as any one could shoot; nay, but (such an one that) by the terror of it sword and javelin would be shattered.1190
نه چنان شیری که کس تیرش زند ** بل ز بیمش تیغ و پیکان بشکند
The blind man, (who was) going on his belly, like a snake— (how is he when) he has opened his eyes in the garden and in spring?”
کور بر اشکم رونده هم‌چو مار ** چشمها بگشاد در باغ و بهار
How is the “how” (contingent being) that has been freed from “how-ness” (conditionedness) and has attained unto the abounding life of “how-lessness”?
چون بود آن چون که از چونی رهید ** در حیاتستان بی‌چونی رسید
He has become a dispenser of “how-ness” in the world beyond locality: all “how's” are (gathered) round his table, like dogs.
گشت چونی‌بخش اندر لامکان ** گرد خوانش جمله چونها چون سگان
He gives (throws) to them a bone from (the table of) “how-lessness.” Do thou, (being) in the state of pollution, keep silence: do not recite this Súra (of the Qur’án).
او ز بی‌چونی دهدشان استخوان ** در جنابت تن زن این سوره مخوان
Until thou wash thyself entirely clean of “how-ness,” do not put thy hand on this (Holy) Book, O youth.1195
تا ز چونی غسل ناری تو تمام ** تو برین مصحف منه کف ای غلام
Whether I am dirty or clean, O (spiritual) princes, if I do not recite this, then what in the world shall I recite?
گر پلیدم ور نظیفم ای شهان ** این نخوانم پس چه خوانم در جهان
You say to me, “For the sake of the (Divine) reward, do not go into the water-tank without having washed”;
تو مرا گویی که از بهر ثواب ** غسل ناکرده مرو در حوض آب
(But) outside of the tank there is nothing but earth: no one who does not enter the tank is clean.
از برون حوض غیر خاک نیست ** هر که او در حوض ناید پاک نیست