- And though the form be despicable and unpleasing, (yet) when his (that person's) disposition is good, die at his feet!
- ور بود صورت حقیر و ناپذیر ** چون بود خلقش نکو در پاش میر
- Know that the outward form passes away, (but) the world of reality remains for ever. 1020
- صورت ظاهر فنا گردد بدان ** عالم معنی بماند جاودان
- How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the shape of the jug; go, seek the water.
- چند بازی عشق با نقش سبو ** بگذر از نقش سبو رو آب جو
- You have seen its (outward) form, you are unaware of the reality; pick out from the shell a pearl, if you are wise.
- صورتش دیدی ز معنی غافلی ** از صدف دری گزین گر عاقلی
- These shells of bodies in the world, though they all are living by (grace of) the Sea of Soul—
- این صدفهای قوالب در جهان ** گر چه جمله زندهاند از بحر جان
- Yet there is not a pearl in every shell: open your eyes and look into the heart of each one,
- لیک اندر هر صدف نبود گهر ** چشم بگشا در دل هر یک نگر
- And pick out what that one has and what this, because that costly pearl is seldom found. 1025
- کان چه دارد وین چه دارد میگزین ** ز انکه کمیاب است آن در ثمین
- If you go (turn your attention) to the form, by external appearance a mountain is a hundred times as much as a ruby in bigness;
- گر به صورت میروی کوهی به شکل ** در بزرگی هست صد چندان که لعل
- Also, in respect of form, your hands and feet and hair are a hundred times as much as the contour of the eye;
- هم به صورت دست و پا و پشم تو ** هست صد چندان که نقش چشم تو
- But this (fact) is not hidden from you, that the two eyes are the choicest of all (your) members.
- لیک پوشیده نباشد بر تو این ** کز همه اعضا دو چشم آمد گزین
- By one thought that comes into the mind a hundred worlds are overturned in a single moment.
- از یک اندیشه که آید در درون ** صد جهان گردد به یک دم سر نگون
- If the body of the Sultan is, in form (appearance), one (only), (yet) hundreds of thousands of soldiers run behind (it). 1030
- جسم سلطان گر به صورت یک بود ** صد هزاران لشکرش در پی دود
- Again, the figure and form of the excellent King are ruled by one invisible thought.
- باز شکل و صورت شاه صفی ** هست محکوم یکی فکر خفی
- Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;
- خلق بیپایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین
- Small is that thought in the people's eyes, but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.
- هست آن اندیشه پیش خلق خرد ** لیک چون سیلی جهان را خورد و برد
- So, when you see that from a thought every craft in the world (arises and) subsists—
- پس چو میبینی که از اندیشهای ** قایم است اندر جهان هر پیشهای
- (That) houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers, 1035
- خانهها و قصرها و شهرها ** کوهها و دشتها و نهرها
- Earth and ocean as well as sun and sky, are living (derive their life) from it as fishes from the sea—
- هم زمین و بحر و هم مهر و فلک ** زنده از وی همچو کز دریا سمک
- Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought (only) as an ant?
- پس چرا از ابلهی پیش تو کور ** تن سلیمان است و اندیشه چو مور
- To your eye the mountain appears great: (to you) thought is like a mouse, and the mountain (like) a wolf.
- مینماید پیش چشمت که بزرگ ** هست اندیشه چو موش و کوه گرگ
- The (material) world in your eyes is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,
- عالم اندر چشم تو هول و عظیم ** ز ابر و رعد و چرخ داری لرز و بیم
- While in regard to the world of thought, O less (lower) than the ass, you are secure and indifferent as a witless stone, 1040
- وز جهان فکرتی ای کم ز خر ** ایمن و غافل چو سنگ بیخبر
- Because you are a (mere) shape and have no portion of intelligence; you are not of human nature, you are an ass's colt.
- ز انکه نقشی وز خرد بیبهرهای ** آدمی خو نیستی خر کرهای
- From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance: hence to you the substance has become a plaything and of slight account.
- سایه را تو شخص میبینی ز جهل ** شخص از آن شد نزد تو بازی و سهل
- Wait till the Day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any veil (encumbrance).
- باش تا روزی که آن فکر و خیال ** بر گشاید بیحجابی پر و بال