(But) the falcon brings its quarry from the mountains itself; consequently the king lets it eat partridge and starling.
باز صید آرد به خود از کوهسار ** لاجرم شاهش خوراند کبک و سار
The speech that is not (derived) from (Divine) inspiration springs from self-will: it is like dust (floating) in the air and among the motes (in the sunbeams).
منطقی کز وحی نبود از هواست ** همچو خاکی در هوا و در هباست
If this saying appear to the Khwája to be erroneous, recite a few lines at the beginning of (the Súra) Wa’l-Najm.
گر نماید خواجه را این دم غلط ** ز اول والنجم بر خوان چند خط
Down to (the words), Mohammed does not speak from self-will: ’tis only (a speech) gained by inspiration.4670
تا که ما ینطق محمد عن هوی ** ان هو الا بوحی احتوی
O Ahmad (Mohammed), since thou despairest not of (receiving) inspiration, leave investigation and conjecture to the corporealists;
احمدا چون نیستت از وحی یاس ** جسمیان را ده تحری و قیاس
For in case of necessity a carcase is lawful (food), but there is no need to investigate (when one is) in the Ka‘ba of union.
کز ضرورت هست مرداری حلال ** که تحری نیست در کعبهی وصال
Whosoever wilfully adopts a heresy without investigation and the utmost efforts to discover the right way,
بیتحری و اجتهادات هدی ** هر که بدعت پیشه گیرد از هوی
The wind (of self-will) will lift him up and kill him, like (the people of) ‘Ád: he is no Solomon that it should waft his throne along.
همچو عادش بر برد باد و کشد ** نه سلیمانست تا تختش کشد
For ‘Ád (and those like them) the wind is a treacherous carrier: (they are) as a lamb in the hands of a glutton,4675
عاد را با دست حمال خذول ** همچو بره در کف مردی اکول
Which he lays in his lap as though it were his own child and carries away to slaughter like a butcher.
همچو فرزندش نهاده بر کنار ** میبرد تا بکشدش قصابوار