- The least blemish in the qualities of that which is endowed with form becomes annoying when you regard it continually;
- کمترین عیب مصور در خصال ** چون پیاپی بینیش آید ملال
- (But) Formlessness throws you into absolute bewilderment: from non-instrumentality a hundred kinds of instruments are born.
- حیرت محض آردت بیصورتی ** زاده صد گون آلت از بیآلتی
- Handlessness is weaving (fashioning) hands: the Soul of the soul makes a (fully) formed Man. 3715
- بی ز دستی دستها بافد همی ** جان جان سازد مصور آدمی
- ’Tis like as (when) from separation and union diverse fancies are woven (conceived) in the heart.
- آنچنان که اندر دل از هجر و وصال ** میشود بافیده گوناگون خیال
- Does this cause ever resemble its effect? Does the cry (of pain) and lamentation ever resemble the loss (that caused it)?
- هیچ ماند این مثر با اثر ** هیچ ماند بانگ و نوحه با ضرر
- The lamentation has a form, the loss is formless: they (the losers) gnaw their hands on account of a loss that has no hand.
- نوحه را صورت ضرر بیصورتست ** دست خایند از ضرر کش نیست دست
- This comparison, O seeker of guidance, does not fit (the case), (but) ’tis the best effort a poor man can make to explain it.
- این مثل نالایقست ای مستدل ** حیلهی تفهیم را جهد المقل
- The formless working (of God) sows (the seed of) a form (idea), (whence) there grows up a body endowed with senses and a (rational) faculty, 3720
- صنع بیصورت بکارد صورتی ** تن بروید با حواس و آلتی
- So that the form (idea), whatever it be, according to its own nature brings the body into (a state of) good or evil.
- تا چه صورت باشد آن بر وفق خود ** اندر آرد جسم را در نیک و بد
- If it be a form (idea) of beneficence, it (the body) turns to thanksgiving; if it be a form of deferment, it (the body) becomes patient;
- صورت نعمت بود شاکر شود ** صورت مهلت بود صابر شود