چون ز طفلی رست جان شد در وصال ** فارغ از حس است و تصویر و خیال
(But) when the spirit has escaped from childishness, it is in union (with God): it is done with sense-perception and imagination and fancy.
نیست محرم تا بگویم بی‌نفاق ** تن زدم والله اعلم بالوفاق
There is no confidant (familiar with this mystery), that I should speak without insincerity (reserve). I will keep silence, and God best knoweth the (true) accord.
مال و تن برف‌اند ریزان فنا ** حق خریدارش که الله اشتری4115
The goods (of this world) and the body are snow melting away to naught; (yet) God is their purchaser, for God hath purchased.
برفها زان از ثمن اولیستت ** که هیی در شک یقینی نیستت
The snows seem to you better than the price, because you are in doubt: you have no certainty (no sure faith),
وین عجب ظنست در تو ای مهین ** که نمی‌پرد به بستان یقین
And in you, O contemptible man, there is this marvellous opinion that does not fly to the garden of certainty.
هر گمان تشنه‌ی یقینست ای پسر ** می‌زند اندر تزاید بال و پر
O son, every opinion is thirsting for certainty and emulously flapping its wings (in quest thereof).
چون رسد در علم پس پر پا شود ** مر یقین را علم او بویا شود
When it attains to knowledge, then the wing becomes a foot, and its knowledge begins to scent certainty,
زانک هست اندر طریق مفتتن ** علم کمتر از یقین و فوق ظن4120
For in the tested Way knowledge is inferior to certainty, but above opinion.
علم جویای یقین باشد بدان ** و آن یقین جویای دیدست و عیان
Know that knowledge is a seeker of certainty, and certainty is a seeker of vision and intuition.
اندر الهیکم بجو این را کنون ** از پس کلا پس لو تعلمون
Seek this (difference between knowledge and intuitive certainty) now, in (the Súra which begins with) Alhákum, after (the word) kallá and after (the words) lau ta‘lamún.