نه ادبشان نه غضبشان نه نکال ** نه نعاس و نه قیاس و نه مقال

Nor their observance of respect nor their anger nor their chastisement nor their slumber nor their reasoning nor their discourse.

هر یکیشان را یکی فری دگر ** مرغ جانشان طایر از پری دگر

To each one of them belongs a different glory: (in each of them) the bird, their spirit, flies with a different wing.

دل همی لرزد ز ذکر حالشان ** قبله‌ی افعال ما افعالشان

The heart is trembling at mention of their (high) estate: their actions are the qibla (to which we turn for guidance) of our actions.

مرغشان را بیضه‌ها زرین بدست ** نیم‌شب جانشان سحرگه بین شدست

The eggs laid by their bird (spirit) are golden: at midnight their spirit hath beheld the dawn.

هر چه گویم من به جان نیکوی قوم ** نقص گفتم گشته ناقص‌گوی قوم 1145

Whatsoever I say with (all) my soul in praise of the company (of the prophets), I have depreciated (them): I have become a disparager of the company.

مسجد اقصی بسازید ای کرام ** که سلیمان باز آمد والسلام

O ye noble. (seekers of God), build “the Farther Mosque,” for Solomon hath returned—and peace (be with you)!

ور ازین دیوان و پریان سر کشند ** جمله را املاک در چنبر کشند

And if the demons and genies refuse this (service)’, the angels will drag them all into bondage.

دیو یک دم کژ رود از مکر و زرق ** تازیانه آیدش بر سر چو برق

(If) the demon once make a false step on account of deceit and hypocrisy, the whip comes (down) on his head like lightning.

چون سلیمان شو که تا دیوان تو ** سنگ برند از پی ایوان تو

Become like Solomon, in order that thy demons may hew stone for thy palace.

چون سلیمان باش بی‌وسواس و ریو ** تا ترا فرمان برد جنی و دیو 1150

Be devoid, like Solomon, of thoughts which tempt to evil-doing and of fraud, that genie and demon may obey thy command.