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  • صید گیرد تیر هم با پر غیر  ** لاجرم بی‌بهره است از لحم طیر 
  • ’Tis with alien feathers that the arrow captures its prey; consequently it gets no share of the bird's flesh;
  • باز صید آرد به خود از کوهسار  ** لاجرم شاهش خوراند کبک و سار 
  • (But) the falcon brings its quarry from the mountains itself; consequently the king lets it eat partridge and starling.
  • منطقی کز وحی نبود از هواست  ** هم‌چو خاکی در هوا و در هباست 
  • The speech that is not (derived) from (Divine) inspiration springs from self-will: it is like dust (floating) in the air and among the motes (in the sunbeams).
  • گر نماید خواجه را این دم غلط  ** ز اول والنجم بر خوان چند خط 
  • If this saying appear to the Khwája to be erroneous, recite a few lines at the beginning of (the Súra) Wa’l-Najm.
  • تا که ما ینطق محمد عن هوی  ** ان هو الا بوحی احتوی  4670
  • Down to (the words), Mohammed does not speak from self-will: ’tis only (a speech) gained by inspiration.
  • احمدا چون نیستت از وحی یاس  ** جسمیان را ده تحری و قیاس 
  • O Ahmad (Mohammed), since thou despairest not of (receiving) inspiration, leave investigation and conjecture to the corporealists;
  • کز ضرورت هست مرداری حلال  ** که تحری نیست در کعبه‌ی وصال 
  • For in case of necessity a carcase is lawful (food), but there is no need to investigate (when one is) in the Ka‘ba of union.
  • بی‌تحری و اجتهادات هدی  ** هر که بدعت پیشه گیرد از هوی 
  • Whosoever wilfully adopts a heresy without investigation and the utmost efforts to discover the right way,
  • هم‌چو عادش بر برد باد و کشد  ** نه سلیمانست تا تختش کشد 
  • The wind (of self-will) will lift him up and kill him, like (the people of) ‘Ád: he is no Solomon that it should waft his throne along.
  • عاد را با دست حمال خذول  ** هم‌چو بره در کف مردی اکول  4675
  • For ‘Ád (and those like them) the wind is a treacherous carrier: (they are) as a lamb in the hands of a glutton,