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تن بمردت سوی اسرافیل ران ** دل فسردت رو به خورشید روان
- If your body is dead, resort to Isráfíl; if your heart is frozen, repair to the sun of the Spirit.
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در خیال از بس که گشتی مکتسی ** نک بسوفسطایی بدظن رسی
- Inasmuch as you have wrapped yourself in the garment of phantasy, lo, you will (soon) reach (the position of) the evil-minded sophist (sceptic).
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او خود از لب خرد معزول بود ** شد ز حس محروم و معزول از وجود 2185
- Verily he was dispossessed of the kernel (which is) Reason: he was dispossessed of (true) perception and deprived of (immediate) experience.
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هین سخن‌خا نوبت لب‌خایی است ** گر بگویی خلق را رسوایی است
- Hark, O mouther, ’tis the hour for mumbling: if thou speak (clearly) to the people, ’tis a shameful exposure.
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چیست امعان چشمه را کردن روان ** چون ز تن جان رست گویندش روان
- What is (the meaning of) im‘án? (It means) causing the spring to flow: when the spirit (ján) has escaped from the body, they call it rawán.
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آن حکیمی را که جان از بند تن ** باز رست و شد روان اندر چمن
- The philosopher whose spirit was delivered from the bondage of the body and began to wander (rawán) in the garden (of Reality)
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دو لقب را او برین هر دو نهاد ** بهر فرق ای آفرین بر جانش باد
- Bestowed two (different) titles on these two (spirits) in order to distinguish (the one from the other). Oh, may his spirit be blest!
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در بیان آنک بر فرمان رود ** گر گلی را خار خواهد آن شود 2190
- (Now hear a story) showing that if he who walks according to the (Divine) command wishes a rose to become a thorn, it will become that.
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معجزه‌ی هود علیه السلام در تخلص مومنان امت به وقت نزول باد
- The evidentiary miracle of Húd, on whom be peace, in the deliverance of the true believers of the community at the moment when the Wind descended.
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مومنان از دست باد ضایره ** جمله بنشستند اندر دایره
- All the true believers, (seeking refuge) from the violence of the pernicious Wind, seated themselves in the circle (drawn by Húd).
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یاد طوفان بود و کشتی لطف هو ** بس چنین کشتی و طوفان دارد او
- The Wind was (like) the Flood, and His (God's) grace was the ship (Ark): He hath many such arks and floods.