- He said, “I am a chief, if ye give me any countenance (favour); I am without means (of winning respect) when ye put me behind your backs.
- گفت وجهم گر مرا وجهی دهید ** بیوجوهم چون پس پشتم نهید
- O ye in whose faces are the marks of eminence, O ye whose splendour is more pleasing than the gold of Ja‘far,
- ای که در روتان نشان مهتری ** فرتان خوشتر ز زر جعفری
- O ye, one sight of whom is (worth many) sights, O ye on whose religion pieces of gold are scattered (as largesse),
- ای که یک دیدارتان دیدارها ** ای نثار دینتان دینارها
- O ye, all of whom have become seeing by the light of God, who have come from the King for the sake of munificence, 2780
- ای همه ینظر بنور الله شده ** از بر حق بهر بخشش آمده
- That ye may cast the elixir of your looks upon the copper of human individuals,
- تا زنید آن کیمیاهای نظر ** بر سر مسهای اشخاص بشر
- I am a stranger: I have come from the desert: I have come in hope of (gaining) the grace of the Sultan.
- من غریبم از بیابان آمدم ** بر امید لطف سلطان آمدم
- The scent of his grace covered (took entire possession of) the deserts: even the grains of sand were ensouled (thereby).
- بوی لطف او بیابانها گرفت ** ذرههای ریگ هم جانها گرفت
- I came all the way to this place for the sake of dinars: as soon as I arrived, I became drunken with sight (contemplation).”
- تا بدین جا بهر دینار آمدم ** چون رسیدم مست دیدار آمدم
- A person ran to the baker for bread: on seeing the beauty of the baker, he gave up the ghost. 2785
- بهر نان شخصی سوی نانوا دوید ** داد جان چون حسن نانوا را بدید
- A certain man went to the rose-garden to take his pleasure, and found it in the beauty of the gardener,
- بهر فرجه شد یکی تا گلستان ** فرجهی او شد جمال باغبان