موج لشکرهای احوالم ببین ** هر یکی با دیگری در جنگ و کین

Behold the surging armies of my “states,” each at war and strife with another.

می‌نگر در خود چنین جنگ گران ** پس چه مشغولی به جنگ دیگران

Contemplate the same grievous war in thyself: why, then, art thou engaged in warring with others?

یا مگر زین جنگ حقت وا خرد ** در جهان صلح یک رنگت برد 55

Or (is it because thou hast no means of escape) unless God shall redeem thee from this war and bring thee into the unicoloured world of peace?

آن جهان جز باقی و آباد نیست ** زانک آن ترکیب از اضداد نیست

That world is naught but everlasting and flourishing, because it is not composed of contraries.

این تفانی از ضد آید ضد را ** چون نباشد ضد نبود جز بقا

This reciprocal destruction is inflicted by (every) contrary on its contrary: when there is no contrary, there is naught but everlastingness.

نفی ضد کرد از بهشت آن بی‌نظیر ** که نباشد شمس و ضدش زمهریر

He (God) who hath no like banished contraries from Paradise, saying, “Neither sun nor its contrary, intense cold, shall be there.”

هست بی‌رنگی اصول رنگها ** صلحها باشد اصول جنگها

Colourlessness is the origin of colours, peaces are the origins of wars.

آن جهانست اصل این پرغم وثاق ** وصل باشد اصل هر هجر و فراق 60

That world is the origin of this dolorous abode, union is the origin of every parting and separation.

این مخالف از چه‌ایم ای خواجه ما ** واز چه زاید وحدت این اعداد را

Wherefore, sire, are we thus in opposition, and wherefore does unity give birth to these numbers?

زانک ما فرعیم و چار اضداد اصل ** خوی خود در فرع کرد ایجاد اصل

Because we are the branch and the four elements are the stock: in the branch the stock has brought its own nature into existence.