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  • نه چنان شیری که کس تیرش زند  ** بل ز بیمش تیغ و پیکان بشکند  1190
  • Not such a lion as any one could shoot; nay, but (such an one that) by the terror of it sword and javelin would be shattered.
  • کور بر اشکم رونده هم‌چو مار  ** چشمها بگشاد در باغ و بهار 
  • The blind man, (who was) going on his belly, like a snake— (how is he when) he has opened his eyes in the garden and in spring?”
  • چون بود آن چون که از چونی رهید  ** در حیاتستان بی‌چونی رسید 
  • How is the “how” (contingent being) that has been freed from “how-ness” (conditionedness) and has attained unto the abounding life of “how-lessness”?
  • گشت چونی‌بخش اندر لامکان  ** گرد خوانش جمله چونها چون سگان 
  • He has become a dispenser of “how-ness” in the world beyond locality: all “how's” are (gathered) round his table, like dogs.
  • او ز بی‌چونی دهدشان استخوان  ** در جنابت تن زن این سوره مخوان 
  • He gives (throws) to them a bone from (the table of) “how-lessness.” Do thou, (being) in the state of pollution, keep silence: do not recite this Súra (of the Qur’án).
  • تا ز چونی غسل ناری تو تمام  ** تو برین مصحف منه کف ای غلام  1195
  • Until thou wash thyself entirely clean of “how-ness,” do not put thy hand on this (Holy) Book, O youth.
  • گر پلیدم ور نظیفم ای شهان  ** این نخوانم پس چه خوانم در جهان 
  • Whether I am dirty or clean, O (spiritual) princes, if I do not recite this, then what in the world shall I recite?
  • تو مرا گویی که از بهر ثواب  ** غسل ناکرده مرو در حوض آب 
  • You say to me, “For the sake of the (Divine) reward, do not go into the water-tank without having washed”;
  • از برون حوض غیر خاک نیست  ** هر که او در حوض ناید پاک نیست 
  • (But) outside of the tank there is nothing but earth: no one who does not enter the tank is clean.
  • گر نباشد آبها را این کرم  ** کو پذیرد مر خبث را دم به دم 
  • If the waters have not the grace to receive filth continually,