هر امیری را چنین گفت او جدا ** نیست نایب جز تو در دین خدا

Thus he spoke to each amír separately, (saying), “There is no vicar in the religion of God except thee.”

هر یکی را کرد او یک یک عزیز ** هر چه آن را گفت این را گفت نیز

He honoured each, one by one, (in this way): whatever he said to that (amír) he also said to this.

هر یکی را او یکی طومار داد ** هر یکی ضد دگر بود المراد

To each he gave one scroll: every one was purposely the contrary of the other.

جملگی طومارها بد مختلف ** چون حروف آن جمله از یا تا الف‌‌ 660

The text of those scrolls was diverse; all were (different), like the letters from alif to yá.

حکم این طومار ضد حکم آن ** پیش از این کردیم این ضد را بیان‌‌

The rule (laid down) in this scroll was contrary to the rule in that: we have already explained (the nature of) this contradiction.

کشتن وزیر خویشتن را در خلوت

How the vizier killed himself in seclusion.

بعد از آن چل روز دیگر در ببست ** خویش کشت و از وجود خود برست‌‌

After that, he shut the door for other forty days (and then) killed himself and escaped from his existence.

چون که خلق از مرگ او آگاه شد ** بر سر گورش قیامت‌‌گاه شد

When the people learned of his death, there came to pass at his grave the scene of the Resurrection.

خلق چندان جمع شد بر گور او ** موکنان جامه دران در شور او

So great a multitude gathered at his grave, tearing their hair, rending their garments in wild grief for him,

کان عدد را هم خدا داند شمرد ** از عرب وز ترک و از رومی و کرد 665

That only God can reckon the number of them—Arabs and Turks and Greeks and Kurds.

خاک او کردند بر سرهای خویش ** درد او دیدند درمان جای خویش‌‌

They put his (grave's) earth on their heads; they deemed anguish for him to be the remedy for themselves.