Just as (for example) the infant's ear is filled with its mother's words, (and then) it (the infant) begins to speak articulately;
همچنانک گوش طفل از گفت مام ** پر شود ناطق شود او درکلام
And if the infant have not a right (rightly-hearing) ear, it does not hear its mother's words and becomes a mute.
ور نباشد طفل را گوش رشد ** گفت مادر نشنود گنگی شود
Every one born deaf has always been dumb: (only) that one who heard (speech) from his mother became a speaker.
دایما هر کر اصلی گنگ بود ** ناطق آنکس شد که از مادر شنود
Know that the deaf ear and the dumb man are the result of a certain defect; for it (the deaf ear) is not capable of (hearing) words and being taught.3040
دانک گوش کر و گنگ از آفتیست ** که پذیرای دم و تعلیم نیست
The (only) one that possessed speech without being taught is God, whose attributes are separated (exempt) from infirmities,
آنک بیتعلیم بد ناطق خداست ** که صفات او ز علتها جداست
Or one like Adam whom God instructed without the screen (mediation) of mother and nurse and necessaries,
یا چو آدم کرده تلقینش خدا ** بیحجاب مادر و دایه و ازا
Or the Messiah (Christ) who, through being taught by the Loving (God), at his birth came speaking into the world,
یا مسیحی که به تعلیم ودود ** در ولادت ناطق آمد در وجود
For the purpose of repelling the suspicion as to his birth (and proving) that he was not born of fornication and wickedness.
از برای دفع تهمت در ولاد ** که نزادست از زنا و از فساد
A (great) shaking was required in the effort that the buttermilk might render back that butter from its (inmost) heart.3045
جنبشی بایست اندر اجتهاد ** تا که دوغ آن روغن از دل باز داد
The butter in the buttermilk is (invisible) like non-existence; the buttermilk has raised its banner (has become manifest) in existence.
روغن اندر دوغ باشد چون عدم ** دوغ در هستی برآورده علم
That which seems to you to be (really) existent is (mere) skin, while that which seems to have perished—that (in reality) is the root.
The buttermilk has not (yet) taken (the form of) butter and is old: lay it (in store) and do not squander it till you pick out (the butter from it).
دوغ روغن ناگرفتست و کهن ** تا بنگزینی بنه خرجش مکن
Hark, turn it knowingly from hand to hand (side to side), that it may reveal that which it has hidden;
هین بگردانش به دانش دست دست ** تا نماید آنچ پنهان کرده است
For this perishable (body) is a proof of the everlasting (spirit): the maundering of the intoxicated is a proof of (the existence of) the Cupbearer.3050
زآنک این فانی دلیل باقیست ** لابهی مستان دلیل ساقیست
Another parable on the same subject.
مثال دیگر هم درین معنی
The gambols of the lion on the banner are indicative of winds concealed (from view).
هست بازیهای آن شیر علم ** مخبری از بادهای مکتتم
If there were not the movement of those winds, how would the dead lion leap into the air?
گر نبودی جنبش آن بادها ** شیر مرده کی بجستی در هوا
By that (means) you know whether the wind is the east-wind or the westwind: this (movement of the lion) is the explanation of that occult matter.
زان شناسی باد را گر آن صباست ** یا دبورست این بیان آن خفاست
This body is like the lion on the banner: thought is causing it to move continually.
این بدن مانند آن شیر علم ** فکر میجنباند او را دم به دم
The thought that comes from the east is (as) the (refreshing) east-wind, and that which (comes) from the west is (as) the west-wind fraught with pestilence.3055
فکر کان از مشرق آید آن صباست ** وآنک از مغرب دبور با وباست
The east of this wind of thought is different; the west of this wind of thought is from Yonder side.
مشرق این باد فکرت دیگرست ** مغرب این باد فکرت زان سرست
The moon is inanimate, and its east is inanimate: the heart's east is the soul of the soul of Soul.
مه جمادست و بود شرقش جماد ** جان جان جان بود شرق فاد
The east of that Sun which illumines the inward part—the sun of day is (only) the husk and reflexion thereof;
شرق خورشیدی که شد باطنفروز ** قشر و عکس آن بود خورشید روز
For when the body is dead (and) without the (vital) flame, neither day nor night appears to it;
زآنک چون مرده بود تن بیلهب ** پیش او نه روز بنماید نه شب
But though it (the flame) be not (there), (yet) when this (spiritual Sun) is (present) in perfection, it (the Sun) maintains itself intact without night and day,3060
ور نباشد آن چو این باشد تمام ** بیشب و بی روز دارد انتظام
Just as the eye, without moon and sun, sees moon and sun in dream.
همچنانک چشم میبیند به خواب ** بیمه و خورشید ماه و آفتاب