آدمی را اندک اندک آن همام ** تا چهل سالش کند مرد تمام

Little by little till forty years (of age) that Potentate makes the human being a complete man,

گرچه قادر بود کاندر یک نفس ** از عدم پران کند پنجاه کس

Although He was able in a single moment to set flying (raise up) fifty persons from non-existence.

عیسی قادر بود کو از یک دعا ** بی توقف بر جهاند مرده را

Jesus by means of one prayer was able to make the dead spring up (to life) without delay:

خالق عیسی بنتواند که او ** بی توقف مردم آرد تو بتو 3505

Is the Creator of Jesus unable, without delay, to bring (full-grown) men in manifold succession (into existence)?

این تانی از پی تعلیم تست ** که طلب آهسته باید بی سکست

This deliberation is for the purpose of teaching you that you must seek (God) slowly without (any) break.

جو یکی کوچک که دایم می‌رود ** نه نجس گردد نه گنده می‌شود

A little rivulet which is moving continually does not become defiled or grow fetid.

زین تانی زاید اقبال و سرور ** این تانی بیضه دولت چون طیور

From this deliberation are born felicity and joy: this deliberation is the egg, fortune is like the birds (hatched from the egg).

مرغ کی ماند به بیضه‌ای عنید ** گرچه از بیضه همی آید پدید

How should the bird resemble the egg, O obstinate one, though it is produced from the egg?

باش تا اجزای تو چون بیضه‌ها ** مرغها زایند اندر انتها 3510

Wait till your limbs, like eggs, hatch birds ultimately (at the Resurrection)!

بیضه‌ی مار ارچه ماند در شبه ** بیضه گنجشک را دورست ره

Though the serpent's egg resembles the sparrow's egg in (outward) likeness, the distance (between them) is far.