- This one is good (fertile) soil and that one brackish and bad; this one is a fair angel and that one a devil and wild beast.
- این زمین پاک و ان شوره ست و بد ** این فرشته‌‌ی پاک و ان دیو است و دد
- If both resemble each other in aspect, it may well be (so): bitter water and sweet water have (the same) clearness. 275
- هر دو صورت گر بهم ماند رواست ** آب تلخ و آب شیرین را صفاست
- Who knows (the difference) except a man possessed of (spiritual) taste? Find (him): he knows the sweet water from the brine.
- جز که صاحب ذوق کی شناسد بیاب ** او شناسد آب خوش از شوره آب
- Comparing magic with (prophetic) miracle, he (the ignorant one) fancies that both are founded on deceit.
- سحر را با معجزه کرده قیاس ** هر دو را بر مکر پندارد اساس
- The magicians (in the time) of Moses, for contention's sake, lifted up (in their hands) a rod like his,
- ساحران موسی از استیزه را ** بر گرفته چون عصای او عصا
- (But) between this rod and that rod there is a vast difference; from this action (magic) to that action (miracle) is a great way.
- زین عصا تا آن عصا فرقی است ژرف ** زین عمل تا آن عمل راهی شگرف
- This action is followed by the curse of God, (while) that action receives in payment the mercy (blessing) of God. 280
- لعنة الله این عمل را در قفا ** رحمه الله آن عمل را در وفا
- The infidels in contending (for equality with the prophets and saints) have the nature of an ape: the (evil) nature is a canker within the breast.
- کافران اندر مری بوزینه طبع ** آفتی آمد درون سینه طبع
- Whatever a man does, the ape at every moment does the same thing that he sees done by the man.
- هر چه مردم می‌‌کند بوزینه هم ** آن کند کز مرد بیند دم‌‌به‌‌دم
- He thinks, “I have acted like him”: how should that quarrelsome-looking one know the difference?
- او گمان برده که من کژدم چو او ** فرق را کی داند آن استیزه رو