ای طبیعی فوق طبع این ملک بین ** یا بیا و محو کن از مصحف این
O natural philosopher, perceive that this kingdom (of God) is above Nature, or else come and (if thou canst) wipe out this (narrative) from the Holy Book!
مقریان را منع کن بندی بنه ** یا معلم را به مال و سهم ده
Prohibit those who recite the Qur’án (professionally) and impose a ban (upon them), or punish the teacher and put terror into him!
عاجزی و خیره کن عجز از کجاست ** عجز تو تابی از آن روز جزاست 4825
Thou art helpless and unable to understand the cause of this helplessness: thy helplessness is a reflexion (foretaste) of the Day of Retribution.
عجزها داری تو در پیش ای لجوج ** وقت شد پنهانیان را نک خروج
O perverse man, thou hast many a helpless plight before thee: (when) the hour comes, lo, the hide-aways will emerge!
خرم آن کین عجز و حیرت قوت اوست ** در دو عالم خفته اندر ظل دوست
Happy is he whose (spiritual) food is this helplessness and bewilderment and who in both worlds is sleeping in the shadow (protection) of the Beloved.
هم در آخر عجز خود را او بدید ** مرده شد دین عجایز را گزید
He (such an one) is conscious of being helpless both in the stable (of the present life) and in the last (future) state: he is dead (to self), he has adopted “the old women's religion.”
چون زلیخا یوسفش بر وی بتافت ** از عجوزی در جوانی راه یافت
(He is) like Zalíkhá, (who), when Joseph beamed upon her, found the way from decrepitude to youth.
زندگی در مردن و در محنتست ** آب حیوان در درون ظلمتست 4830
Life depends on dying (to self) and on suffering tribulation: the Water of Life is in the (Land of) Darkness.
رجوع کردن به قصه‌ی پروردن حق تعالی نمرود را بی‌واسطه‌ی مادر و دایه در طفلی
Resuming the Story of the most High God's bringing up Nimrod in his childhood without the intervention of mother and nurse.
حاصل آن روضه چو باغ عارفان ** از سموم صرصر آمد در امان
“In short, that garden, like the (spiritual) orchard of gnostics, was secure from the simoom and the sarsar wind.
یک پلنگی طفلکان نو زاده بود ** گفتم او را شیر ده طاعت نمود
A leopardess (there) had newly given birth to cubs: I bade her give milk to him (Nimrod), and she obeyed.