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پس نثاری کرده باشی بهر خود ** چونک هر سرمایه‌ی تو صد شود
- Therefore thou wilt have scattered a largesse for thine own sake, inasmuch as every stock of thine will be centupled.
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قصه‌ی هدیه فرستادن بلقیس از شهر سبا سوی سلیمان علیه‌السلام
- Story of Bilqís' sending a gift from the city of Sabá to Solomon, on whom be peace.
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هدیه‌ی بلقیس چل استر بدست ** بار آنها جمله خشت زر بدست
- The gift of Bilqís was forty mules: their whole load consisted of bricks of gold.
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چون به صحرای سلیمانی رسید ** فرش آن را جمله زر پخته دید
- When he (the envoy) reached the open plain, belonging to Solomon, he saw that its carpet was (made) entirely of solid gold.
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بر سر زر تا چهل منزل براند ** تا که زر را در نظر آبی نماند 565
- He rode on gold for the distance of forty stages, till gold had no more esteem in his sight.
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بارها گفتند زر را وا بریم ** سوی مخزن ما چه بیگار اندریم
- (Many) times they said, “Let us take the gold back to the treasury: what a (fruitless) quest are we (engaged) in!
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عرصه‌ای کش خاک زر ده دهیست ** زر به هدیه بردن آنجا ابلهیست
- A spacious land of which the soil is pure gold—to bring gold thither as a gift is folly.”
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ای ببرده عقل هدیه تا اله ** عقل آنجا کمترست از خاک راه
- O thou who hast brought intelligence to God as a gift, there intelligence is less (in value) than the dust of the road.
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چون کساد هدیه آنجا شد پدید ** شرمساریشان همی واپس کشید
- When the worthlessness of the gift became apparent there (in Solomon's kingdom), shamefacedness was drawing them back (towards Bilqís);
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باز گفتند ار کساد و ار روا ** چیست بر ما بنده فرمانیم ما 570
- (But) again they said, “Whether it be worthless or valuable, what matter to us? We are slaves (bound) to (obey) the command.
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گر زر و گر خاک ما را بردنیست ** امر فرمان‌ده به جا آوردنیست
- Whether we have to bring gold or earth, the command of the one who gives the command is to be executed.