- The King is jealous of any one who, after having seen the face, prefers the (mere) scent. 1770
- شاه را غیرت بود بر هر که او ** بو گزیند بعد از آن که دید رو
- To speak in parables, God's jealousy is the wheat, (while) men's jealousy is the straw in the stack.
- غیرت حق بر مثل گندم بود ** کاه خرمن غیرت مردم بود
- Know that the root of (all) jealousies is in God: those of mankind are an offshoot from God, without resemblance (being implied).
- اصل غیرتها بدانید از اله ** آن خلقان فرع حق بی‌‌اشتباه
- I will leave the explanation of this and will begin to complain of the cruelty of that fickle Beauty.
- شرح این بگذارم و گیرم گله ** از جفای آن نگار ده دله
- I wail because wailings are pleasant to Him: He wants from the two worlds wailing and grief.
- نالم ایرا ناله‌‌ها خوش آیدش ** از دو عالم ناله و غم بایدش
- How should I not wail bitterly on account of His deceit, since I am not in the circle of those intoxicated with Him? 1775
- چون ننالم تلخ از دستان او ** چون نیم در حلقه‌‌ی مستان او
- How shall I not be like night, without His day and without the favour of His day-illuming countenance?
- چون نباشم همچو شب بی‌‌روز او ** بی‌‌وصال روی روز افروز او
- His unsweetness is sweet in my soul: may my soul be sacrificed to the Beloved who grieves my heart!
- ناخوش او خوش بود در جان من ** جان فدای یار دل رنجان من
- I am in love with my grief and pain for the sake of pleasing my peerless King.
- عاشقم بر رنج خویش و درد خویش ** بهر خشنودی شاه فرد خویش
- I make the dust of sorrow a salve for mine eye, that the two seas of mine eyes may be filled with pearls.
- خاک غم را سرمه سازم بهر چشم ** تا ز گوهر پر شود دو بحر چشم