- In this world of dust he was the cloud and the rain: he was the centre wherein the bounty of the Giver of all displayed itself.
- در جهان خاک ابر و آب بود ** مظهر بخشایش وهاب بود
- His gifts caused sea and mine to quake (tremble with shame): caravan on caravan (were hastening) towards his liberality.
- از عطایش بحر و کان در زلزله ** سوی جودش قافله بر قافله
- His gate and portal was the point to which Need turned: the fame of his munificence had gone (far and wide) into the world.
- قبلهی حاجت در و دروازهاش ** رفته در عالم به جود آوازهاش
- Persians and Greeks, Turcomans and Arabs, were lost in amazement at his liberality and generosity. 2250
- هم عجم هم روم هم ترک و عرب ** مانده از جود و سخایش در عجب
- He was the Water of Life and the Ocean of Bounty: by him both Arabs and foreigners were revived.
- آب حیوان بود و دریای کرم ** زنده گشته هم عرب زو هم عجم
- Story of the poor Arab of the desert and his wife's altercation with him because of (their) penury and poverty.
- قصهی اعرابی درویش و ماجرای زن با او به سبب قلت و درویشی
- One night a Bedouin woman said to her husband—and she carried (her) talk beyond bounds—
- یک شب اعرابی زنی مر شوی را ** گفت و از حد برد گفتوگوی را
- “We are suffering all this poverty and hardship: all the world are (living) in happiness, we (alone) are unhappy.
- کاین همه فقر و جفا ما میکشیم ** جمله عالم در خوشی ما ناخوشیم
- We have no bread, our (only) condiment is anguish and envy: we have no jug, our (only) water is the tears (that flow) from our eyes.
- نانمان نی نان خورشمان درد و رشک ** کوزهمان نه آبمان از دیده اشک
- Our garment by day is the burning sunshine; at night our bed and coverlet is (made) of the moonbeams. 2255
- جامهی ما روز تاب آفتاب ** شب نهالین و لحاف از ماهتاب
- We fancy the disk of the moon is a disk (round cake) of bread and lift up our hands towards the sky.
- قرص مه را قرص نان پنداشته ** دست سوی آسمان برداشته