بخش 60 - زیافت تأویل رکیک مگس

The fly was lifting up his head, like a pilot, on a blade of straw and (a pool of) ass's urine.

“I have called (them) sea and ship,” said he; “I have been pondering over that (interpretation) for a long while.

Look! here is this sea and this ship, and I am the pilot and skilled (in navigation) and judicious.”

He was propelling the raft on the “sea”: that (small) quantity appeared to him illimitable.

That urine was boundless in relation to him: where was the vision that should see it truly?

His world extends (just) as far as his sight reaches; his eye is so big, his “sea” is big in the same proportion.

So with the false interpreter (of the Qur’án): like the fly, his imagination is (foul as) ass's urine and his conception (worthless as) a straw.

If the fly leave off interpreting by (following his own) opinion, Fortune will turn that fly into a humáy.

One who possesses this (Divine) indication (of the true meaning) is not a fly: his spirit is not analogous to his (outward) form.