- Did not the mountain call Yahyá (John the Baptist) to itself and drive off his pursuers with blows of stone?
- کوه یحیی را نه سوی خویش خواند ** قاصدانش را به زخم سنگ راند
- “O Yahyá,” it said, “come, take refuge in me, that I may be thy shelter from the sharp sword.”
- گفت ای یحیی بیا در من گریز ** تا پناهت باشم از شمشیر تیز
- How the parrot bade farewell to the merchant and flew away.
- وداع کردن طوطی خواجه را و پریدن
- The parrot gave him one or two counsels devoid of hypocrisy and after that bade him the farewell of parting. 1845
- یک دو پندش داد طوطی بینفاق ** بعد از آن گفتش سلام الفراق
- The merchant said to her, “Go, God protect thee! Just now thou hast shown to me a new Way.”
- خواجه گفتش فی أمان الله برو ** مر مرا اکنون نمودی راه نو
- Said the merchant to himself, “This is the counsel for me; I will take her Way, for this Way is shining with light.
- خواجه با خود گفت کاین پند من است ** راه او گیرم که این ره روشن است
- How should my soul be meaner than the parrot? The soul ought to follow a good track like this.”
- جان من کمتر ز طوطی کی بود ** جان چنین باید که نیکو پی بود
- The harmfulness of being honoured by the people and of becoming conspicuous.
- مضرت تعظیم خلق و انگشت نمای شدن
- The body is cage-like: the body, amidst the cajoleries of those who come in and go out, became a thorn to the soul.
- تن قفس شکل است تن شد خار جان ** در فریب داخلان و خارجان
- This one says to him, “I will be thy confidant,” and that one says, “Nay, I am thy partner.” 1850
- اینش گوید من شوم هم راز تو ** و آنش گوید نی منم انباز تو
- This one says to him, “There is none in existence like thee for beauty and eminence and for kindness and liberality.”
- اینش گوید نیست چون تو در وجود ** در جمال و فضل و در احسان و جود
- That one says to him, “Both the worlds are thine, all our souls are thy soul's parasites.”
- آنش گوید هر دو عالم آن تست ** جمله جانهامان طفیل جان تست