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  • گفت کز صورت مبینید این هنر ** که به خواب و مرگ گردد بی‌خبر
  • Said, “Do not regard this accomplishment as proceeding from the (material) form, which becomes unconscious in sleep and death.
  • صورت آمد چون لباس و چون عصا ** جز به عقل و جان نجنبد نقشها
  • Form is like a garment or a staff: (bodily) figures do not move except by means of intellect and spirit.”
  • بی‌خبر بود او که آن عقل و فاد ** بی ز تقلیب خدا باشد جماد
  • He (the wise ant) was unaware that without the controlling influence of God that intellect and heart (mind) would be inert.
  • یک زمان از وی عنایت بر کند ** عقل زیرک ابلهیها می‌کند
  • If He withdraw His favour from it for a single moment, the acute intellect will commit (many) follies.
  • چونش گویا یافت ذوالقرنین گفت ** چونک کوه قاف در نطق سفت 3730
  • When Dhu ’l-Qarnayn found it (Mount Qáf) speaking, he said, after Mount Qáf had bored the pearls of speech,
  • کای سخن‌گوی خبیر رازدان ** از صفات حق بکن با من بیان
  • “O eloquent one, who art wise and knowest the mystery, expound to me the Attributes of God.”
  • گفت رو کان وصف از آن هایل‌ترست ** که بیان بر وی تواند برد دست
  • It answered, “Go, for those qualities are too terrible for (oral) exposition to put its hand on them,
  • یا قلم را زهره باشد که به سر ** بر نویسد بر صحایف زان خبر
  • Or for the pen to dare inscribe with its point information concerning them on the pages (of books).”
  • گفت کمتر داستانی باز گو ** از عجبهای حق ای حبر نکو
  • He said, “Relate a lesser tale concerning the wonders of God, O goodly divine.”
  • گفت اینک دشت سیصدساله راه ** کوههای برف پر کردست شاه 3735
  • It said, “Look, the King (God) hath made a plain full of snow-mountains, for the distance of a three hundred years' journey—