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  • کاش چون طفل از حیل جاهل بدی ** تا چو طفلان چنگ در مادر زدی 1415
  • Would that, like a child, he had been ignorant of devices, so that, like children, he might have clung to his mother,
  • یا به علم نقل کم بودی ملی ** علم وحی دل ربودی از ولی
  • Or that he had not been filled with traditional knowledge, (but) had carried away from a saint the knowledge divinely revealed to the heart!
  • با چنین نوری چو پیش آری کتاب ** جان وحی آسای تو آرد عتاب
  • When you bring forward a book (in rivalry) with such a light (of inspiration), your soul, that resembles inspiration (in its nature), reproaches (you).
  • چون تیمم با وجود آب دان ** علم نقلی با دم قطب زمان
  • Know that beside the breath (words) of the Qutb of the time traditional knowledge is like performing the ritual ablution with sand when there is water (available).
  • خویش ابله کن تبع می‌رو سپس ** رستگی زین ابلهی یابی و بس
  • Make yourself foolish (simple) and follow behind (him): only by means of this foolishness will you gain deliverance.
  • اکثر اهل الجنه البله ای پسر ** بهر این گفتست سلطان البشر 1420
  • On this account, O father, the Sultan of mankind (Mohammed hath said, “Most of the people of Paradise are the foolish.”
  • زیرکی چون کبر و باد انگیز تست ** ابلهی شو تا بماند دل درست
  • Since, intelligence is the exciter of pride and vanity in you, become a fool in order that your heart may remain sound—
  • ابلهی نه کو به مسخرگی دوتوست ** ابلهی کو واله و حیران هوست
  • Not the fool that is bent double (abases himself) in buffoonery, (but) the fool that is distraught and bewildered (lost) in Him (God).
  • ابلهان‌اند آن زنان دست بر ** از کف ابله وز رخ یوسف نذر
  • The foolish are (like) those women (of Egypt) who cut their hands—foolish in respect of their hands, (but) giving (wise) notice to beware of the face (beauty) of Joseph.
  • عقل را قربان کن اندر عشق دوست ** عقلها باری از آن سویست کوست
  • Sacrifice your intellect in love for the Friend: anyhow, (all) intellects are from the quarter where He is.