جفت آن گاوم که آدم جد خلق ** در زراعت بر زمین می‌کرد فلق

I am the yoke-fellow of the ox with which Adam, the forefather of mankind, used to plough the earth in sowing.”

چون شنید از گاو و قج اشتر شگفت ** سر فرود آورد و آن را برگرفت

When the camel heard the ox and the ram (make these assertions) he was amazed: he lowered his head and picked up that (bunch of grass).

در هوا بر داشت آن بند قصیل ** اشتر بختی سبک بی‌قال و قیل 2480

Promptly, without any palaver, the Bactrian camel raised the bunch of fresh barley in the air,

که مرا خود حاجت تاریخ نیست ** کین چنین جسمی و عالی گردنیست

Saying, “I, in sooth, need no (support from) chronology, since I have such a (stout) body and high neck.

خود همه کس داند ای جان پدر ** که نباشم از شما من خردتر

Indeed every one knows, O father's darling, that I am not smaller than you.

داند این را هرکه ز اصحاب نهاست ** که نهاد من فزون‌تر از شماست

Whoever is one of those possessed of intelligence knows this, that my nature is superior to yours.”

جملگان دانند کین چرخ بلند ** هست صد چندان که این خاک نژند

(The Christian said), “All know that this lofty heaven is a hundred times as great as this low earth.

کو گشاد رقعه‌های آسمان ** کو نهاد بقعه‌های خاکدان 2485

How can the wide expanse of the celestial domains be compared with the (limited) character of the terrestrial regions?”

جواب گفتن مسلمان آنچ دید به یارانش جهود و ترسا و حسرت خوردن ایشان

How the Moslem in reply told his companions, the Jew and the Christian, what he had seen (in his dream), and how they were disappointed.

پس مسلمان گفت ای یاران من ** پیشم آمد مصطفی سلطان من

Then the Moslem said, “O my friends, to me came Mustafá (Mohammed), my sovereign,

پس مرا گفت آن یکی بر طور تاخت ** با کلیم حق و نرد عشق باخت

And said to me, ‘That one (the Jew) has sped to Sinai with him (Moses) to whom God spake, and has played the game of love (with God);