- Until thou extract this thorn in thy foot, thine eye is dark (blind): how wilt thou go about? 1970
- پیش از آن کین خار پا بیرون کنی ** چشم تاریک است جولان چون کنی
- Man, who is not contained in the world, becomes hidden in the point of a thorn!
- آدمی کاو مینگنجد در جهان ** در سر خاری همیگردد نهان
- Mustafá (Mohammed) came (into the world) to make harmony: (he would say) “Speak to me, O Humayrá, speak!”
- مصطفی آمد که سازد هم دمی ** کلمینی یا حمیراء کلمی
- O Humayrá, put the horse-shoe in the fire, that by means of thy horse-shoe this mountain may become (glowing with love, like) rubies.
- ای حمیراء آتش اندر نه تو نعل ** تا ز نعل تو شود این کوه لعل
- This “Humayrá” is a feminine word, and the Arabs call the (word for) “spirit” feminine;
- این حمیراء لفظ تانیث است و جان ** نام تانیثاش نهند این تازیان
- But there is no fear (harm) to the Spirit from being feminine: the Spirit has no association (nothing in common) with man and woman. 1975
- لیک از تانیث جان را باک نیست ** روح را با مرد و زن اشراک نیست
- It is higher than feminine and masculine: this is not that spirit which is composed of dryness and moisture.
- از مونث وز مذکر برتر است ** این نه آن جان است کز خشک و تر است
- This is not that spirit which is increased by (eating) bread, or which is sometimes like this and sometimes like that.
- این نه آن جان است کافزاید ز نان ** یا گهی باشد چنین گاهی چنان
- It is a doer of (what is) sweet, and (it is) sweet, and the essence of sweetness. Without (inward) sweetness there is no sweetness, O taker of bribes!
- خوش کننده ست و خوش و عین خوشی ** بیخوشی نبود خوشی ای مرتشی
- When thou art (made) sweet by sugar, it may be that at some time that sugar will vanish from thee;
- چون تو شیرین از شکر باشی بود ** کان شکر گاهی ز تو غایب شود