- (Consider) how the imperial grace of the homeless Spirit has produced effects on the whole body; 2825
- لطف شاهنشاه جان بیوطن ** چون اثر کرده ست اندر کل تن
- How the grace of Reason, which is of goodly nature, of goodly lineage, brings the entire body into discipline;
- لطف عقل خوش نهاد خوش نسب ** چون همه تن را در آرد در ادب
- How Love, saucy, uncontrolled, and restless, throws the whole body into madness.
- عشق شنگ بیقرار بیسکون ** چون در آرد کل تن را در جنون
- The purity of the water of the Sea that is like Kawthar (is such that) all its pebbles are pearls and gems.
- لطف آب بحر کاو چون کوثر است ** سنگ ریزهش جمله در و گوهر است
- For whatever science the master is renowned, the souls of his pupils become endued with the same.
- هر هنر که استا بدان معروف شد ** جان شاگردان بدان موصوف شد
- With the master-theologian the quick and industrious pupil reads (scholastic) theology. 2830
- پیش استاد اصولی هم اصول ** خواند آن شاگرد چست با حصول
- With the master-jurist the student of jurisprudence reads jurisprudence, when he (the teacher) expounds it, not theology.
- پیش استاد فقیه آن فقه خوان ** فقه خواند نی اصول اندر بیان
- With the master who is a grammarian—the soul of his pupil becomes imbued by him with grammar.
- پیش استادی که او نحوی بود ** جان شاگردش از او نحوی شود
- Again, the master who is absorbed in the Way (of Súfism)— because of him the soul of his pupil is absorbed in the King (God).
- باز استادی که او محو ره است ** جان شاگردش از او محو شه است
- Of all these various kinds of knowledge, on the day of death the (best) equipment and provision for the road is the knowledge of (spiritual) poverty.
- زین همه انواع دانش روز مرگ ** دانش فقر است ساز راه و برگ
- The story of what passed between the grammarian and the boatman.
- حکایت ماجرای نحوی و کشتیبان