گر تو خواهی آتش آب خوش شود ** ور نخواهی آب هم آتش شود

If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.

این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بی‌‌داد یا رب داد تست‌‌

This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.

بی‌‌طلب تو این طلب‌‌مان داده‌‌ای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشاده‌‌ای‌‌

Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.

مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد

How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.

چون که خرگوش از رهایی شاد گشت ** سوی نخجیران دوان شد تا به دشت‌‌

When the hare was gladdened by deliverance (from the lion), he began to run towards the beasts until (he came to) the desert.

شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ می‌‌زد شادمان تا مرغزار 1340

Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow,

دست می‌‌زد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ‌‌

Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.

شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد

Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;

برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند

The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;

با زبان شطاه شکر خدا ** می‌‌سراید هر بر و برگی جدا

With the tongue of (seed that put forth) its sprouts each fruit and tree severally is singing thanks to God,

که بپرورد اصل ما را ذو العطا ** تا درخت استغلظ آمد و استوی‌‌ 1345

Saying, “The Bounteous Giver nourished our root until the tree grew big and stood upright.”