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  • Oh, there is much copper gilded with gold, that he (the counterfeiter) may sell it to (those of) small understanding.
  • ای بسا مس زر اندوده به زر ** تا فروشد آن به عقل مختصر
  • We, who see the inward (reality) of the whole world, see the heart and look not on the outward form.”
  • ما که باطن‌بین جمله‌ی کشوریم ** دل ببینیم و به ظاهر ننگریم
  • The cadis who are concerned with the outward form (the letter of the law) give judgement according to outward appearances. 2175
  • قاضیانی که به ظاهر می‌تنند ** حکم بر اشکال ظاهر می‌کنند
  • When he (the suspected person) has uttered the profession of the Faith and has shown some (formal sign of) true belief, at once these people (the cadis) pronounce him a true believer.
  • چون شهادت گفت و ایمانی نمود ** حکم او مومن کنند این قوم زود
  • There is many a hypocrite who has taken refuge in this out ward form and has shed the blood of a hundred true believers in secret.
  • بس منافق کاندرین ظاهر گریخت ** خون صد مومن به پنهانی بریخت
  • Endeavour to become old in intelligence and religion, that you may become, like the Universal Intelligence, a seer of the in ward (reality).
  • جهد کن تا پیر عقل و دین شوی ** تا چو عقل کل تو باطن‌بین شوی
  • When the beauteous Intelligence unveiled its face (revealed itself) from non-existence, He (God) gave it a robe of honour and a thousand names.
  • از عدم چون عقل زیبا رو گشاد ** خلعتش داد و هزارش نام داد
  • Of those sweet-breathing names the least is this, that it (the Intelligence) is not in need of any one. 2180
  • کمترین زان نامهای خوش‌نفس ** این که نبود هیچ او محتاج کس
  • If the Intelligence display its face in visible form, day will be dark beside its light;
  • گر به صورت وا نماید عقل رو ** تیره باشد روز پیش نور او
  • And if the shape of foolishness become visible, beside it the darkness of night will be radiant,
  • ور مثال احمقی پیدا شود ** ظلمت شب پیش او روشن بود