نیست قاصر دیدن او ای فلان ** از سکون و جنبشت در امتحان

(Yet) its perception, O such and such, is not unable to apprehend thy motion and rest when it tries,

چه عجب گر خالق آن عقل نیز ** با تو باشد چون نه‌ای تو مستجیز 3680

What wonder if the Creator of that intellect too is with thee? How art thou not conceding (the truth of that)?

از خرد غافل شود بر بد تند ** بعد آن عقلش ملامت می‌کند

He (some one) pays no heed to his intellect and embarks on evil; afterwards his intellect rebukes him.

تو شدی غافل ز عقلت عقل نی ** کز حضورستش ملامت کردنی

You forgot your intellect, your intellect did not (forget you), since that act of rebuke is the result of its presence (attention).

گر نبودی حاضر و غافل بدی ** در ملامت کی ترا سیلی زدی

If it had not been present (attentive) and had been heedless, how should it have slapped you in rebuke?

ور ازو غافل نبودی نفس تو ** کی چنان کردی جنون و تفس تو

And if your carnal soul had not been inattentive to it, how should your madness and heat have acted thus?

پس تو و عقلت چو اصطرلاب بود ** زین بدانی قرب خورشید وجود 3685

Hence you and your intellect are like the astrolabe: by this means you may know the nearness of the Sun of existence.

قرب بی‌چونست عقلت را به تو ** نیست چپ و راست و پس یا پیش رو

Your intellect is indescribably near to you: it is neither to the left nor to the right nor behind nor in front.

قرب بی‌چون چون نباشد شاه را ** که نیابد بحث عقل آن راه را

How (then) should not the King be indescribably near? for intellectual search cannot find the way (to Him).

نیست آن جنبش که در اصبع تراست ** پیش اصبع یا پسش یا چپ و راست

The motion that you have in your finger is not in front of your finger or behind it or to the left or to the right.