- Whoever is born beautiful from the loins of Creation, a mirror must be placed before him. 3155
- هر که او از صلب فطرت خوب زاد ** آینه در پیش او باید نهاد
- The beauteous face is in love with the mirror: it (such a face) is a polisher of the soul and (a kindler) of the fear of God in (men's) hearts.
- عاشق آیینه باشد روی خوب ** صیقل جان آمد و تقوی القلوب
- How the guest came to Joseph, on whom be peace, and how Joseph demanded of him a gift and present on his return from abroad.
- آمدن مهمان پیش یوسف علیه السلام و تقاضا کردن یوسف از او تحفه و ارمغان
- The loving friend came from the ends of the earth and became the guest of Joseph the truthful,
- آمد از آفاق یار مهربان ** یوسف صدیق را شد میهمان
- For they had been acquainted in childhood, reclining (together) on the cushion of acquaintance.
- کآشنا بودند وقت کودکی ** بر وسادهی آشنایی متکی
- He spoke to him (Joseph) of the injustice and envy of his brethren: Joseph said, “That was (like) a chain, and I was the lion.
- یاد دادش جور اخوان و حسد ** گفت کان زنجیر بود و ما اسد
- The lion is not disgraced by the chain: I do not complain of God's destiny. 3160
- عار نبود شیر را از سلسله ** نیست ما را از قضای حق گله
- If the lion had a chain on his neck, (yet) he was prince over all the chain-makers.”
- شیر را بر گردن ار زنجیر بود ** بر همه زنجیر سازان میر بود
- He asked, “How wert thou in regard to the prison and the well?” “Like the moon,” said Joseph, “in the interlunar period (when she is) on the wane.”
- گفت چون بودی ز زندان و ز چاه ** گفت همچون در محاق و کاست ماه
- If in that period the new moon is bent double, does not she at last become the full moon in the sky?
- در محاق ار ماه نو گردد دو تا ** نی در آخر بدر گردد بر سما
- Though the seed-pearl is pounded in the mortar, it becomes the light of eye and heart and looks aloft.
- گر چه دردانه به هاون کوفتند ** نور چشم و دل شد و بیند بلند