- The sword of clemency is sharper than the sword of iron; nay, it is more productive of victory than a hundred armies.
- تیغ حلم از تیغ آهن تیزتر ** بل ز صد لشکر ظفر انگیزتر
- Oh, alas, two mouthfuls were eaten, and thereby the ferment of thought was frozen up. 3990
- ای دریغا لقمه‌‌ای دو خورده شد ** جوشش فکرت از آن افسرده شد
- A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, as the descending node is (the cause of) eclipse to the brilliance of the full-moon.
- گندمی خورشید آدم را کسوف ** چون ذنب شعشاع بدری را خسوف
- Behold the beauty of the heart, how its moon scatters the Pleiades (how its light is broken and disordered) by a single handful of clay.
- اینت لطف دل که از یک مشت گل ** ماه او چون می‌‌شود پروین گسل
- When the bread was spirit, it was beneficial; since it became form, it rouses disbelief.
- نان چو معنی بود خوردش سود بود ** چون که صورت گشت انگیزد جحود
- As (for example) the green thistles which a camel eats, and gains from eating them a hundred benefits and pleasures:
- همچو خار سبز کاشتر می‌‌خورد ** ز ان خورش صد نفع و لذت می‌‌برد
- When the camel from the desert eats those same thistles, after their greenness is gone and they have become dry, 3995
- چون که آن سبزیش رفت و خشک گشت ** چون همان را می‌‌خورد اشتر ز دشت
- They rend his palate and cheek— oh, alas that such a well-nourished rose became a sword!
- می‌‌دراند کام و لنجش ای دریغ ** کان چنان ورد مربی گشت تیغ
- When the bread was spirit, it was (like) the green thistles; since it became form, it is now dry and gross.
- نان چو معنی بود بود آن خار سبز ** چون که صورت شد کنون خشک است و گبز
- According as thou hadst formerly been in the habit of eating it, O gracious being,
- تو بدان عادت که او را پیش از این ** خورده بودی ای وجود نازنین