- Was it not Abraham that caused the gross Nimrod to (attempt the) journey to heaven by means of the vulture?
- نه ز ابراهیم نمرود گران ** کرد با کرکس سفر بر آسمان
- (Impelled) by self-will, he often went upward; but no vulture can fly to heaven.
- از هوا شد سوی بالا او بسی ** لیک بر گردون نپرد کرکسی
- Abraham said to him, “O traveller, I will be thy vulture: this is more seemly for thee.
- گفتش ابراهیم ای مرد سفر ** کرکست من باشم اینت خوب‌تر
- When thou makest of me a ladder to go aloft, thou wilt ascend to heaven without flying”—
- چون ز من سازی به بالا نردبان ** بی پریدن بر روی بر آسمان
- As the heart (spirit), without provisions or riding-camel, travels (swiftly) as lightning to west and east; 4130
- آنچنان که می‌رود تا غرب و شرق ** بی ز زاد و راحله دل هم‌چو برق
- As man's consciousness, wandering abroad whilst he is asleep, travels during the night to (remote) cities;
- آنچنان که می‌رود شب ز اغتراب ** حس مردم شهرها در وقت خواب
- As the gnostic, sitting quietly (in one place), travels by a hidden track through a hundred worlds.
- آنچنان که عارف از راه نهان ** خوش نشسته می‌رود در صد جهان
- If he has not been endowed with power to travel like this, (then) from whom are (derived) these reports concerning that (spiritual) country?
- گر ندادستش چنین رفتار دست ** این خبرها زان ولایت از کیست
- Hundreds of thousands of Pírs are agreed upon (the truth of) these reports and these veracious narratives.
- این خبرها وین روایات محق ** صد هزاران پیر بر وی متفق
- Amongst these sources (authorities) there is no dispute, such as there is in (the case of) knowledge based on opinions. 4135
- یک خلافی نی میان این عیون ** آنچنان که هست در علم ظنون