Nay, beyond horizons and skies he is without locality, like spirits and intelligences.
بلک بیرون از افق وز چرخها ** بی مکان باشد چو ارواح و نهی
Nay, our intellects are the shadows (reflexions) of him: they fall, like shadows, at his feet.3580
بل عقول ماست سایههای او ** میفتد چون سایهها در پای او
Whenever the mujtahid (legist) knows a Statute, in that case he will not think of (employing) analogy;
مجتهد هر گه که باشد نصشناس ** اندر آن صورت نیندیشد قیاس
(But) in a case where he does not find a Statute, there he will produce an example from analogy.
چون نیابد نص اندر صورتی ** از قیاس آنجا نماید عبرتی
Comparison between Statute and analogy.
تشبیه نص با قیاس
Know for sure that Statute is the Revelation of the Holy Spirit and that the analogy made by the individual intellect is under (subordinate to) this.
نص وحی روح قدسی دان یقین ** وان قیاس عقل جزوی تحت این
The intellect is endued with apprehension and enlightenment by the Spirit: how should the Spirit become subject to its supervision?
عقل از جان گشت با ادراک و فر ** روح او را کی شود زیر نظر
But the Spirit makes an impression on the intellect, and in consequence of that impression the intellect exercises a certain governance.3585
لیک جان در عقل تاثیری کند ** زان اثر آن عقل تدبیری کند
If the Spirit has declared a belief in you, as (in) Noah, where is the Sea and the Ship (Ark) and the Flood of Noah?
نوحوار ار صدقی زد در تو روح ** کو یم و کشتی و کو طوفان نوح
The intellect deems the impression to be the Spirit, but the light of the sun is very far from (being) the orb of the sun.
عقل اثر را روح پندارد ولیک ** نور خور از قرص خور دورست نیک
Hence a pilgrim (on the Mystic Way) is content with a loaf of bread (qursí), in order that by its light he may be thrown (directed) towards the (Divine) Orb (Qurs),
زان به قرصی سالکی خرسند شد ** تا ز نورش سوی قرص افکند شد