این نه میراث جهان فانی است ** که به انسابش بیابی جانی است3400
This is not the heritage of the fleeting world, so that thou shouldst gain it by ties of relationship: ’tis a spiritual (heritage).
بلکه این میراثهای انبیاست ** وارث این جانهای اتقیاست
Nay, these things are the heritage of the prophets; the inheritors of these are the spirits of the devout.
پور آن بو جهل شد مومن عیان ** پور آن نوح نبی از گمرهان
The son of Bú Jahl became a true believer for all to see; the son of the prophet Noah became one of those who lost the way.
زاده‌‌ی خاکی منور شد چو ماه ** زاده‌‌ی آتش تویی رو رو سیاه
“The child of earth (Adam) became illumined like the moon; thou art the child of fire: get thee gone with thy face black (in disgrace)!”
این قیاسات و تحری روز ابر ** یا به شب مر قبله را کرده ست حبر
The wise man has made (use of) such reasonings and investigation on a cloudy day or at night for the sake of (finding) the qibla;
لیک با خورشید و کعبه پیش رو ** این قیاس و این تحری را مجو3405
But with the sun and with the Ka‘ba before your face, do not seek to reason and investigate in this manner.
کعبه نادیده مکن رو زو متاب ** از قیاس الله أعلم بالصواب
Do not pretend that you cannot see the Ka‘ba, do not avert your face from it because you have reasoned (that it is not to be seen). God knows best what is right.
چون صفیری بشنوی از مرغ حق ** ظاهرش را یاد گیری چون سبق
When you hear a pipe from the Bird of God, you commit its outward (meaning) to memory, like a lesson,
وانگهی از خود قیاساتی کنی ** مر خیال محض را ذاتی کنی
And then from yourself (out of your own head) you make some analogies: you make (what is) mere fancy into a (thing of) substance (reality).
اصطلاحاتی است مر ابدال را ** که نباشد ز آن خبر اقوال را
The Abdál have certain mystical expressions of which the doctrines (of external religion) are ignorant.