- According to the religious Law it is objectionable, O worthy (reader), to put forward a blind man in the office of Imám.
- در شریعت هست مکروه ای کیا ** در امامت پیش کردن کور را
- Though he know the Qur’án by heart and be quick and learned in divinity, the clear-sighted man is superior, even if he be a fool.
- گرچه حافظ باشد و چست و فقیه ** چشمروشن به وگر باشد سفیه
- The blind man has no (means of) abstention from filth: the eye is the source of abstention and precaution.
- کور را پرهیز نبود از قذر ** چشم باشد اصل پرهیز و حذر
- He does not see the dirt in passing by. May no true believer have blind eyes! 2090
- او پلیدی را نبیند در عبور ** هیچ مومن را مبادا چشم کور
- The man outwardly blind is in outward (material) filthiness; the man inwardly blind is in inward (spiritual) filthiness.
- کور ظاهر در نجاسهی ظاهرست ** کور باطن در نجاسات سرست
- This outward filthiness may be removed by some water; that inward filthiness (gradually) increases.
- این نجاسهی ظاهر از آبی رود ** آن نجاسهی باطن افزون میشود
- It cannot be washed away save by water of the eye (tears), when (once) the inward filthinesses have become manifest.
- جز بب چشم نتوان شستن آن ** چون نجاسات بواطن شد عیان
- Since God has called the infidel “filth,” that filthiness is not on his outward part.
- چون نجس خواندست کافر را خدا ** آن نجاست نیست بر ظاهر ورا
- The infidel's outward part is not defiled by this (outward filth); that filthiness is in (his) disposition and religion. 2095
- ظاهر کافر ملوث نیست زین ** آن نجاست هست در اخلاق و دین
- The smell of this (outward filth comes (extends to a distance of) twenty paces; but the smell of that (inward) filth (reaches) from Rayy to Damascus;
- این نجاست بویش آید بیست گام ** و آن نجاست بویش از ری تا بشام