- Like the desert Arab who drew water from the well and tasted the Water of Life from the (lovely) face of Joseph.
- همچو اعرابی که آب از چه کشید ** آب حیوان از رخ یوسف چشید
- Moses went to fetch fire: he beheld such a Fire (the Burning Bush) that he escaped from (searching after) fire.
- رفت موسی کاتش آرد او به دست ** آتشی دید او که از آتش برست
- Jesus sprang up, to escape from his enemies: that spring carried him to the Fourth Heaven.
- جست عیسی تا رهد از دشمنان ** بردش آن جستن به چارم آسمان
- The ear of wheat became a trap for Adam, so that his existence became the wheat-ear (seed and origin) of mankind. 2790
- دام آدم خوشه‌‌ی گندم شده ** تا وجودش خوشه‌‌ی مردم شده
- The falcon comes to the snare for food: it finds the fore-arm (wrist) of the King and fortune and glory.
- باز آید سوی دام از بهر خور ** ساعد شه یابد و اقبال و فر
- The child went to school to acquire knowledge, in hope of (getting) its father's pretty bird (as a prize);
- طفل شد مکتب پی کسب هنر ** بر امید مرغ با لطف پدر
- Then, by (going to) school, that child rose to the top, paid monthly fees (to his teacher), and became perfect (in knowledge).
- پس ز مکتب آن یکی صدری شده ** ماهگانه داده و بدری شده
- ‘Abbás had come to war for vengeance’ sake, for the purpose of subduing Ahmad (Mohammed) and opposing the (true) religion:
- آمده عباس حرب از بهر کین ** بهر قمع احمد و استیز دین
- He and his descendants in the Caliphate became a back and front (complete support) to the (true) religion until the Resurrection. 2795
- گشته دین را تا قیامت پشت و رو ** در خلافت او و فرزندان او
- “I came to this court in quest of wealth: as soon as I entered the portico I became (a spiritual) chief.
- من بر این در طالب چیز آمدم ** صدر گشتم چون به دهلیز آمدم