Since the bounty of the Sea is (poured) through our jar, what wonder (that) the Sea (itself) should be (contained) in a Fish?
داد دریا چون ز خم ما بود ** چه عجب در ماهیی دریا بود
The sensual eye is fixed on the form of the thoroughfare: thou art regarding it as a thoroughfare, but he (the Perfect Man) as a permanent abode.
چشم حس افسرد بر نقش ممر ** تش ممر می‌بینی و او مستقر
This dualism is characteristic of the eye that sees double; but (in reality) the first is the last and the last is the first.
این دوی اوصاف دید احولست ** ورنه اول آخر آخر اولست
Hark, by what means is this made known (to thee)? By means of the (spiritual) resurrection. Seek to experience (that) resurrection: do not dispute concerning (that) resurrection.820
هی ز چه معلوم گردد این ز بعث ** بعث را جو کم کن اندر بعث بحث
The (necessary) condition of (experiencing) the Day of Resurrection is to die first, for (the word) ba‘th (resurrection) is (signifies) “to raise to life from the dead.”
شرط روز بعث اول مردنست ** زانک بعث از مرده زنده کردنست
Hence all the world have taken the wrong way, for they are afraid of nonexistence, though it is (really) the refuge (in which they find salvation).
جمله عالم زین غلط کردند راه ** کز عدم ترسند و آن آمد پناه
Whence shall we seek (true knowledge? From renouncing (our false) knowledge. Whence shall we seek (true) peace? From renouncing peace (with our carnal selves).
از کجا جوییم علم از ترک علم ** از کجا جوییم سلم از ترک سلم
Whence shall we seek (real) existence? From renouncing (illusory) existence. Whence shall we seek the apple (of Truth)? From renouncing the hand (of self-assertion and self-interest).
از کجا جوییم هست از ترک هست ** از کجا جوییم سیب از ترک دست
O best Helper, only Thou canst make the eye that regards the non-existent to regard that which is (really) existent.825
هم تو تانی کرد یا نعم المعین ** دیده‌ی معدوم‌بین را هست بین
The eye that was produced from non-existence regarded the Essence of (real) Being as wholly non-existent;
دیده‌ای کو از عدم آمد پدید ** ذات هستی را همه معدوم دید