پای گاو اندر میان آری ز داو ** رو ندوزد حق بر اسپی شاخ گاو

You (the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk) drag in the ox in order to cheat (me): begone, God does not stick the horns of an ox upon a horse.”

بس مناسب صنعتست این شهره زاو ** کی نهد بر جسم اسپ او عضو گاو

This renowned Master-builder observes great congruity in His workmanship: how should He attach to a horse's body part of (the body of) an ox?

زاو ابدان را مناسب ساخته ** قصرهای منتقل پرداخته

The Master-builder has made (all) bodies congruously: He has constructed moving palaces,

در میان قصرها تخریج‌ها ** از سوی این سوی آن صهریج‌ها

(With) balconies in them and cisterns (distributing water) from this (part of the palace) to that;

وز درونشان عالمی بی‌منتها ** در میان خرگهی چندین فضا 3510

And within them an infinite world: all this (vast) expanse (is contained) in a single tent.

گه چو کابوسی نماید ماه را ** گه نماید روضه قعر چاه را

Now He causes (one beautiful as) the moon to seem like an incubus (nightmare), now He causes the bottom of a well to have the semblance of a garden.

قبض و بسط چشم دل از ذوالجلال ** دم به دم چون می‌کند سحر حلال

Inasmuch as the closing and opening of the eye of the heart by the Almighty is continually working lawful magic,

زین سبب درخواست از حق مصطفی ** زشت را هم زشت و حق را حق‌نما

For this reason Mustafá (Mohammed) entreated God, saying, “Let the false appear as false and the true as true,

تا به آخر چون بگردانی ورق ** از پشیمانی نه افتم در قلق

So that at last, when Thou turnest the leaf, I may not (be stricken) by sorrow (and) fall into agitation.”

مکر که کرد آن عماد الملک فرد ** مالک الملکش بدان ارشاد کرد 3515

(’Twas) the Lord of the Kingdom (that) guided the peerless ‘Imádu ’l- Mulk to the deception which he practised.