- In reality, then, (the creator of their fear and) the ruler over (them) all is that One who is near, though He is not perceived by the senses.
- پس حقیقت بر همه حاکم کسیست ** که قریبست او اگر محسوس نیست
- He is perceived in a certain hiding-place (the heart), but not perceived by the sense of this house (the body). 2205
- هست او محسوس اندر مکمنی ** لیک محسوس حس این خانه نی
- The sense to which God is manifested is not the sense of this world; it is another.
- آن حسی که حق بر آن حس مظهرست ** نیست حس این جهان آن دیگرست
- If the animal sense perceived those (Divine) forms (ideas) an ox or an ass would be the Báyazíd of the time.
- حس حیوان گر بدیدی آن صور ** بایزید وقت بودی گاو و خر
- He who made the body to be the theatre in which every spirit is manifested, He who made the Ark to be the Buráq (steed) of Noah,
- آنک تن را مظهر هر روح کرد ** وآنک کشتی را براق نوح کرد
- He, if He will, makes (what is) a very ark in (its ordinary) character to be a (destructive) flood for you, O seeker of light.
- گر بخواهد عین کشتی را به خو ** او کند طوفان تو ای نورجو
- At every moment, O man of little means, He has conjoined with your grief and gladness an ark (to save you) and a flood (to destroy you). 2210
- هر دمت طوفان و کشتی ای مقل ** با غم و شادیت کرد او متصل
- If you do not perceive the ark and the sea (flood) before you, (then) consider (whence come) the tremors in all your limbs.
- گر نبینی کشتی و دریا به پیش ** لرزها بین در همه اجزای خویش
- Since his (the trembling man's) eyes do not perceive the source of his fear, he is affrighted by diverse kinds of phantasy.
- چون نبیند اصل ترسش را عیون ** ترس دارد از خیال گونه‌گون
- (For example), a drunken boor strikes a blind man with his fist: the blind man thinks it is a kicking camel,
- مشت بر اعمی زند یک جلف مست ** کور پندارد لگدزن اشترست