This imagination and fancy are (like) the doll: so long as you are (spiritually) a child, you have need of them;
این تصور وین تخیل لعبتست ** تا تو طفلی پس بدانت حاجتست
(But) when the spirit has escaped from childishness, it is in union (with God): it is done with sense-perception and imagination and fancy.
چون ز طفلی رست جان شد در وصال ** فارغ از حس است و تصویر و خیال
There is no confidant (familiar with this mystery), that I should speak without insincerity (reserve). I will keep silence, and God best knoweth the (true) accord.
نیست محرم تا بگویم بینفاق ** تن زدم والله اعلم بالوفاق
The goods (of this world) and the body are snow melting away to naught; (yet) God is their purchaser, for God hath purchased.4115
مال و تن برفاند ریزان فنا ** حق خریدارش که الله اشتری
The snows seem to you better than the price, because you are in doubt: you have no certainty (no sure faith),
برفها زان از ثمن اولیستت ** که هیی در شک یقینی نیستت
And in you, O contemptible man, there is this marvellous opinion that does not fly to the garden of certainty.
وین عجب ظنست در تو ای مهین ** که نمیپرد به بستان یقین
O son, every opinion is thirsting for certainty and emulously flapping its wings (in quest thereof).
هر گمان تشنهی یقینست ای پسر ** میزند اندر تزاید بال و پر
When it attains to knowledge, then the wing becomes a foot, and its knowledge begins to scent certainty,
چون رسد در علم پس پر پا شود ** مر یقین را علم او بویا شود
For in the tested Way knowledge is inferior to certainty, but above opinion.4120
زانک هست اندر طریق مفتتن ** علم کمتر از یقین و فوق ظن
Know that knowledge is a seeker of certainty, and certainty is a seeker of vision and intuition.
علم جویای یقین باشد بدان ** و آن یقین جویای دیدست و عیان