- Verily he was dispossessed of the kernel (which is) Reason: he was dispossessed of (true) perception and deprived of (immediate) experience. 2185
- او خود از لب خرد معزول بود ** شد ز حس محروم و معزول از وجود
- Hark, O mouther, ’tis the hour for mumbling: if thou speak (clearly) to the people, ’tis a shameful exposure.
- هین سخنخا نوبت لبخایی است ** گر بگویی خلق را رسوایی است
- What is (the meaning of) im‘án? (It means) causing the spring to flow: when the spirit (ján) has escaped from the body, they call it rawán.
- چیست امعان چشمه را کردن روان ** چون ز تن جان رست گویندش روان
- The philosopher whose spirit was delivered from the bondage of the body and began to wander (rawán) in the garden (of Reality)
- آن حکیمی را که جان از بند تن ** باز رست و شد روان اندر چمن
- Bestowed two (different) titles on these two (spirits) in order to distinguish (the one from the other). Oh, may his spirit be blest!
- دو لقب را او برین هر دو نهاد ** بهر فرق ای آفرین بر جانش باد
- (Now hear a story) showing that if he who walks according to the (Divine) command wishes a rose to become a thorn, it will become that. 2190
- در بیان آنک بر فرمان رود ** گر گلی را خار خواهد آن شود
- The evidentiary miracle of Húd, on whom be peace, in the deliverance of the true believers of the community at the moment when the Wind descended.
- معجزهی هود علیه السلام در تخلص مومنان امت به وقت نزول باد
- All the true believers, (seeking refuge) from the violence of the pernicious Wind, seated themselves in the circle (drawn by Húd).
- مومنان از دست باد ضایره ** جمله بنشستند اندر دایره
- The Wind was (like) the Flood, and His (God's) grace was the ship (Ark): He hath many such arks and floods.
- یاد طوفان بود و کشتی لطف هو ** بس چنین کشتی و طوفان دارد او
- God makes a king to be (as) an ark (for his subjects), to the end that he, (impelled) by selfishness, may assault the ranks (of his enemies).
- پادشاهی را خدا کشتی کند ** تا به حرص خویش بر صفها زند
- The king's aim is not that the people should become safe; his aim is that his kingdom should become (like) a fetter (on his foot).
- قصد شه آن نه که خلق آمن شوند ** قصدش آنک ملک گردد پایبند
- The ass that turns the mill is running along: its aim is (to obtain) release, so that it may gain refuge from blows at that moment. 2195
- آن خراسی میدود قصدش خلاص ** تا بیابد او ز زخم آن دم مناص
- Its aim is not to draw some water or thereby (by turning the mill) to make sesame into oil.
- قصد او آن نه که آبی بر کشد ** یاکه کنجد را بدان روغن کند
- The ox hurries for fear of (receiving) hard blows, not for the purpose of taking the cart and baggage (to their destination);
- گاو بشتابد ز بیم زخم سخت ** نه برای بردن گردون و رخت
- But God put such fear of pain in him, to the end that good results might be achieved in consequence (of his fear).
- لیک دادش حق چنین خوف وجع ** تا مصالح حاصل آید در تبع
- Similarly, every shopkeeper works for himself, not for the improvement of the world.
- همچنان هر کاسبی اندر دکان ** بهر خود کوشد نه اصلاح جهان
- Every one seeks a plaster for his pain, and in consequence of this a whole world is set in order. 2200
- هر یکی بر درد جوید مرهمی ** در تبع قایم شده زین عالمی
- God made of fear the pillar (support) of this world: because of fear every one has devoted himself to work.
- حق ستون این جهان از ترس ساخت ** هر یکی از ترس جان در کار باخت
- Praise be to God that on this wise He has made a fear to be the architect and (means for the) improvement of the world.
- حمد ایزد را که ترسی را چنین ** کرد او معمار و اصلاح زمین
- All these (people) are afraid of (losing) good and (suffering) evil: none that is afraid is himself frightened by himself.
- این همه ترسندهاند از نیک و بد ** هیچ ترسنده نترسد خود ز خود
- In reality, then, (the creator of their fear and) the ruler over (them) all is that One who is near, though He is not perceived by the senses.
- پس حقیقت بر همه حاکم کسیست ** که قریبست او اگر محسوس نیست
- He is perceived in a certain hiding-place (the heart), but not perceived by the sense of this house (the body). 2205
- هست او محسوس اندر مکمنی ** لیک محسوس حس این خانه نی
- The sense to which God is manifested is not the sense of this world; it is another.
- آن حسی که حق بر آن حس مظهرست ** نیست حس این جهان آن دیگرست
- If the animal sense perceived those (Divine) forms (ideas) an ox or an ass would be the Báyazíd of the time.
- حس حیوان گر بدیدی آن صور ** بایزید وقت بودی گاو و خر
- He who made the body to be the theatre in which every spirit is manifested, He who made the Ark to be the Buráq (steed) of Noah,
- آنک تن را مظهر هر روح کرد ** وآنک کشتی را براق نوح کرد
- He, if He will, makes (what is) a very ark in (its ordinary) character to be a (destructive) flood for you, O seeker of light.
- گر بخواهد عین کشتی را به خو ** او کند طوفان تو ای نورجو