- Vision is immediately born of certainty, just as fancy is born of opinion.
- دید زاید از یقین بی امتهال ** آنچنانک از ظن میزاید خیال
- See in Alhákum the explanation of this, (namely), that the knowledge of certainty becomes the intuition of certainty. 4125
- اندر الهیکم بیان این ببین ** که شود علم الیقین عین الیقین
- “I am higher than opinion and certainty, and my head is not to be turned aside by blame.
- از گمان و از یقین بالاترم ** وز ملامت بر نمیگردد سرم
- Since my mouth ate of His sweetmeat, I have become clear-eyed and a seer of Him.
- چون دهانم خورد از حلوای او ** چشمروشن گشتم و بینای او
- I step boldly when I go (to my spiritual) home: I do not let my feet tremble, I do not walk like the blind.
- پا نهم گستاخ چون خانه روم ** پا نلرزانم نه کورانه روم
- That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh (in full-blown beauty), He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more (beautiful).
- آنچ گل را گفت حق خندانش کرد ** با دل من گفت و صد چندانش کرد
- (He bestowed on my heart) that which touched the cypress and made its stature straight, and that of which the narcissus and wild-rose partook; 4130
- آنچ زد بر سرو و قدش راست کرد ** و آنچ از وی نرگس و نسرین بخورد
- That which made sweet the soul and heart of the sugar-cane, and that from which the creature of earth gained the form of Chigil;
- آنچ نی را کرد شیرین جان و دل ** و آنچ خاکی یافت ازو نقش چگل
- That which made the eyebrow so ravishing and made the face rose-coloured and (like) the pomegranate-flower;
- آنچ ابرو را چنان طرار ساخت ** چهره را گلگونه و گلنار ساخت
- (That which) gave a hundred enchantments to the tongue, and that which gave the (pure) gold of Ja‘far to the mine.
- مر زبان را داد صد افسونگری ** وانک کان را داد زر جعفری