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228-237

  • این مثل چون واسطه‌ست اندر کلام  ** واسطه شرطست بهر فهم عام 
  • This parable is like an intermediary in the discourse: an intermediary is required for the apprehension of the vulgar.
  • اندر آتش کی رود بی‌واسطه  ** جز سمندر کو رهید از رابطه 
  • Without an intermediary, how should any one go into the fire, except (one like) the salamander?—for he is independent of the connecting link.
  • واسطه‌ی حمام باید مر ترا  ** تا ز آتش خوش کنی تو طبع را  230
  • You need the hot bath as an intermediary, so that you may refresh your constitution by (the heat of) the fire.
  • چون نتانی شد در آتش چون خلیل  ** گشت حمامت رسول آبت دلیل 
  • Since you cannot go into the fire, like Khalíl (Abraham), the hot bath has become your Apostle, and the water your guide.
  • سیری از حقست لیک اهل طبع  ** کی رسد بی‌واسطه‌ی نان در شبع 
  • Satiety is from God, but how should the unclean attain unto satiety without the mediation of bread?
  • لطف از حقست لیکن اهل تن  ** درنیابد لطف بی‌پرده‌ی چمن 
  • Beauty is from God, but the corporealist does not feel (the charm of) beauty without the veil (medium) of the garden.
  • چون نماند واسطه‌ی تن بی‌حجاب  ** هم‌چو موسی نور مه یابد ز جیب 
  • When the bodily medium is removed, (then) he (who is disembodied) perceives without (any) screen, like Moses, the light of the Moon (shining) from (his own) bosom.
  • این هنرها آب را هم شاهدست  ** که اندرونش پر ز لطف ایزدست  235
  • These virtues possessed by the water bear witness likewise that its interior is filled with the grace of God.
  • گواهی فعل و قول بیرونی بر ضمیر و نور اندرونی 
  • The testimony of external acts and words to the hidden mind and the inner light.
  • فعل و قول آمد گواهان ضمیر  ** زین دو بر باطن تو استدلال گیر 
  • Act and word are witnesses to the hidden mind: from these twain infer the inward state.
  • چون ندارد سیر سرت در درون  ** بنگر اندر بول رنجور از برون 
  • When your thought does not penetrate within, inspect the patient's urine from without.