این دلیل راه رهرو را بود ** کاو به هر دم در بیابان گم شود

These indications of the way are for the traveller who at every moment becomes lost in the desert.

واصلان را نیست جز چشم و چراغ ** از دلیل و راهشان باشد فراغ‏

For them that have attained (to union with God) there is nothing (necessary) except the eye (of the spirit) and the lamp (of intuitive faith): they have no concern with indications (to guide them) or with a road (to travel by).

گر دلیلی گفت آن مرد وصال ** گفت بهر فهم اصحاب جدال‏

If the man that is united (with God) has mentioned some indication, he has mentioned (it) in order that the dialecticians may understand (his meaning).

بهر طفل نو پدر تی‏تی کند ** گر چه عقلش هندسه‏ی گیتی کند 3315

For a new-born child the father makes babbling sounds, though his intellect may make a survey of the (whole) world.

کم نگردد فضل استاد از علو ** گر الف چیزی ندارد گوید او

The dignity of the master's learning is not diminished if he say that (the letter) alif has nothing (has no diacritical mark).

از پی تعلیم آن بسته دهن ** از زبان خود برون باید شدن‏

For the sake of teaching that tongue-tied (child), one must go outside of one's own language (customary manner of speech).

در زبان او بباید آمدن ** تا بیاموزد ز تو او علم و فن‏

You must come into (adopt) his language, in order that he may learn knowledge and science from you.

پس همه خلقان چو طفلان وی‏اند ** لازم است این پیر را در وقت پند

All the people, then, are as his (the spiritual Teacher's) children: this (fact) is necessary for the Pír (to bear in mind) when he gives (them) instruction.

کفر را حد است و اندازه بدان ** شیخ و نور شیخ را نبود کران‏ 3320

Infidelity hath a fixed limit and range—know (this for sure); (but) the Shaykh and the light of the Shaykh have no bound.

پیش بی‏حد هر چه محدود است لاست ** کل شی‏ء غیر وجه الله فناست‏

Before the infinite all that is finite is naught: everything except the Face of God is passing away.