باز منشوری نویسد سرخ و سبز ** تا رهند ارواح از سودا و عجز
Again, he writes a patent in red and green, that (our) spirits may be delivered from melancholy and despair.
سرخ و سبز افتاد نسخ نو بهار ** چون خط قوس و قزح در اعتبار1600
Red and green are Spring's cancellation (of winter); in regard (to their significance they are) like the (coloured) lines of the rainbow.
عکس تعظیم پیغام سلیمان علیه السلام در دل بلقیس از صورت حقیر هدهد
How reverence for the message of Solomon, on whom be peace, was reflected in the heart of Bilqís from the despicable form of the hoopoe.
رحمت صد تو بر آن بلقیس باد ** که خدایش عقل صد مرده بداد
Hundredfold mercy be on that Bilqís to whom God gave the intellect of a hundred men!
هدهدی نامه بیاورد و نشان ** از سلیمان چند حرفی با بیان
A hoopoe brought the letter with the (royal) sign-manual from Solomon—a few eloquent words.
خواند او آن نکتهای با شمول ** با حقارت ننگرید اندر رسول
(When) she read those pregnant sayings, she did not look with contempt on the messenger.
جسم هدهد دید و جان عنقاش دید ** حس چو کفی دید و دل دریاش دید
Her body saw him as a hoopoe, (but) her spirit saw him as the ‘Anqá; her senses saw him as a fleck of foam, (but) her heart saw him as the sea.
عقل با حس زین طلسمات دو رنگ ** چون محمد با ابو جهلان به جنگ1605
Because of these two-coloured (diverse) talismans (appearance and reality) the intellect is at war with the senses, as Mohammed with the likes of Abú Jahl.
کافران دیدند احمد را بشر ** چون ندیدند از وی انشق القمر
The infidels regarded Ahmad (Mohammed) as (only) a man, since they did not see in him (the Prophetic nature which was manifested by the miracle) the moon was cleft asunder.
خاک زن در دیدهی حس بین خویش ** دیدهی حس دشمن عقل است و کیش
Throw dust on your sense-perceiving eye: the sensuous eye is the enemy of intellect and religion.
دیدهی حس را خدا اعماش خواند ** بت پرستش گفت و ضد ماش خواند
God has called the sensuous eye blind; He has said that it is an idolater and our foe,