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  • سگ چو عالم گشت شد چالاک زحف ** سگ چو عارف گشت شد ز اصحاب کهف‏
  • When the dog has become knowing (‘álim), he marches briskly; when the dog has become a knower of God (‘árif), he becomes (as) the Men of the Cave.
  • سگ شناسا شد که میر صید کیست ** ای خدا آن نور اشناسنده چیست‏ 2365
  • The dog has come to know who is the Master of the hunt. O God, what is that knowing light?
  • کور نشناسد نه از بی‏چشمی است ** بلکه این ز آن است کز جهل است مست‏
  • (If) the blind man knows it not, ’tis not from (his) having no eye (to see); nay, ’tis because he is drunken with ignorance.
  • نیست خود بی‏چشم تر کور از زمین ** این زمین از فضل حق شد خصم بین‏
  • Truly, the blind man is not more eyeless than the earth; and this earth, by the grace of God, has become a seer of (God's) enemies.
  • نور موسی دید و موسی را نواخت ** خسف قارون کرد و قارون را شناخت‏
  • It saw the Light of Moses and showed kindness to Moses; (but) Qárún it engulfed, (for) it knew Qárún.
  • رجف کرد اندر هلاک هر دعی ** فهم کرد از حق که یا أرض ابلعی‏
  • It quaked for the destruction of every false pretender: it understood (the words that came) from God, “O earth, swallow (thy water)!”
  • خاک و آب و باد و نار با شرر ** بی‏خبر با ما و با حق با خبر 2370
  • Earth and water and air and sparking fire are unacquainted with us, but acquainted with God.
  • ما بعکس آن ز غیر حق خبیر ** بی‏خبر از حق و از چندین نذیر
  • Contrariwise, we are aware of (things) other than God, (but) unaware (heedless) of God and of so many warners (prophets).
  • لاجرم أشفقن منها جمله‏شان ** کند شد ز آمیز حیوان حمله‏شان‏
  • As a necessary consequence, they (the elements) all shrank from (accepting) it (the trust offered to them): (the edge of) their impulse to partake of life was blunted.
  • گفته بیزاریم جمله زین حیات ** کاو بود با خلق حی با حق موات‏
  • They said, “We all are averse to this life, (namely), that one should be living in relation to created beings and dead in relation to God.”