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1015-1039

  • That he (Adam) might not be able to drink the milk of knowledge of religion, and that he might not roam around that lofty castle. 1015
  • تا نتاند شیر علم دین کشید ** تا نگردد گرد آن قصر مشید

  • The sciences of the followers of (external) sense became a muzzle, so that he (the believer in sense-perception) might not receive milk from that sublime knowledge.
  • علمهای اهل حس شد پوز بند ** تا نگیرد شیر ز آن علم بلند

  • (But) into the blood-drop (core) of the heart there fell a jewel which He (God) gave not to the seas and skies.
  • قطره‌‌ی دل را یکی گوهر فتاد ** کان به دریاها و گردونها نداد

  • How long (this regard for) form? After all, O form-worshipper, has thy reality-lacking soul not (yet) escaped from form?
  • چند صورت آخر ای صورت پرست ** جان بی‌‌معنیت از صورت نرست‌‌

  • If a human being were a man in virtue of form, Ahmad (Mohammed) and Bú Jahl would be just the same.
  • گر به صورت آدمی انسان بدی ** احمد و بو جهل خود یکسان بدی‌‌

  • The painting on the wall is like Adam: see from the (pictured) form what thing in it is wanting. 1020
  • نقش بر دیوار مثل آدم است ** بنگر از صورت چه چیز او کم است‌‌

  • The spirit is wanting in that resplendent form: go, seek that jewel rarely found!
  • جان کم است آن صورت با تاب را ** رو بجو آن گوهر کمیاب را

  • The heads of all the lions in the world were laid low when They (God) gave a hand to (bestowed favour on) the dog of the Companions (of the Cave).
  • شد سر شیران عالم جمله پست ** چون سگ اصحاب را دادند دست‌‌

  • What loss does it suffer from that abhorred shape, inasmuch as its spirit was plunged in the ocean of light?
  • چه زیان استش از آن نقش نفور ** چون که جانش غرق شد در بحر نور

  • ’Tis not in pens to describe (the outward) form: (what is written) in letters is (qualities like) “learned” and “just”;
  • وصف صورت نیست اندر خامه‌‌ها ** عالم و عادل بود در نامه‌‌ها

  • (And qualities like) “learned” and “just” are only the spiritual essence which thou wilt not find in (any) place or in front or behind. 1025
  • عالم و عادل همه معنی است بس ** کش نیابی در مکان و پیش و پس‌‌

  • The sun of the spirit strikes (with its beams) on the body from the quarter where (the relation of) place does not exist: it (that sun) is not contained in the sky.
  • می‌‌زند بر تن ز سوی لامکان ** می‌‌نگنجد در فلک خورشید جان‌‌

  • An account of the knowledge of the hare and an explanation of the excellence and advantages of knowledge.
  • ذکر دانش خرگوش و بیان فضیلت و منافع دانستن‌‌

  • This topic hath no end. Give heed! Attend to the story of the hare.
  • این سخن پایان ندارد هوش دار ** گوش سوی قصه‌‌ی خرگوش دار

  • Sell your asinine (corporeal) ear and buy another ear, for the asinine ear will not apprehend this discourse.
  • گوش خر بفروش و دیگر گوش خر ** کاین سخن را در نیابد گوش خر

  • Go, behold the foxy tricks played by the hare; behold the cunning of the hare and how he overthrew the lion.
  • رو تو روبه بازی خرگوش بین ** مکر و شیر اندازی خرگوش بین‌‌

  • Knowledge is the seal of the kingdom of Solomon: the whole world is form, and knowledge is the spirit. 1030
  • خاتم ملک سلیمان است علم ** جمله عالم صورت و جان است علم‌‌

  • Because of this virtue, the creatures of the seas and those of mountain and plain are helpless before man.
  • آدمی را زین هنر بی‌‌چاره گشت ** خلق دریاها و خلق کوه و دشت‌‌

  • Of him the pard and lion are afraid, like the mouse; from him the leviathan and the sea are in pallor and agitation.
  • زو پلنگ و شیر ترسان همچو موش ** زو نهنگ و بحر در صفرا و جوش‌‌

  • From him peri and demon took to the shores (sought refuge): each took abode in some hiding-place.
  • زو پری و دیو ساحلها گرفت ** هر یکی در جای پنهان جا گرفت‌‌

  • Man hath many a secret enemy: the cautious man is a wise one.
  • آدمی را دشمن پنهان بسی است ** آدمی با حذر عاقل کسی است‌‌

  • (There are) hidden creatures, evil and good: at every instant their blows are striking on the heart. 1035
  • خلق پنهان زشتشان و خوبشان ** می‌‌زند در دل بهر دم کوبشان‌‌

  • If you go into the river to wash yourself, a thorn in the water inflicts a hurt upon you.
  • بهر غسل ار در روی در جویبار ** بر تو آسیبی زند در آب خار

  • Although the thorn is hidden low in the water, you know it is there, since it is pricking you.
  • گر چه پنهان خار در آب است پست ** چون که در تو می‌‌خلد دانی که هست‌‌

  • The pricks of (angelic) inspirations and (satanic) temptations are from thousands of beings, not (only) from one.
  • خار خار وحیها و وسوسه ** از هزاران کس بود نی یک کسه‌‌

  • Wait (patiently) for your (bodily) senses to be transmuted, so that you may see them (the hidden beings), and the difficulty may be solved,
  • باش تا حسهای تو مبدل شود ** تا ببینیشان و مشکل حل شود