- The doctrines, every one, are contrary to each other: how should they be one? Are poison and sugar one?
- هر یکی قولی است ضد همدگر ** چون یکی باشد یکی زهر و شکر
- Until you pass beyond (the difference of) poison and sugar, how will you catch a scent from the garden of Unity?
- تا ز زهر و از شکر در نگذری ** کی تو از گلزار وحدت بر بری
- Twelve scrolls of this style and fashion were drawn up in writing by that enemy to the religion of Jesus.
- این نمط وین نوع ده طومار و دو ** بر نوشت آن دین عیسی را عدو
- Showing how this difference lies in the form of the doctrine, not in the real nature of the Way.
- بیان آن که این اختلافات در صورت روش است نه در حقیقت راه
- He had no scent (perception) of the unicolority of Jesus, nor had he a disposition from (imbued with) the tincture of the dyeing-vat of Jesus. 500
- او ز یک رنگی عیسی بو نداشت ** وز مزاج خم عیسی خو نداشت
- From that pure vat a garment of a hundred colours would become as simple and one-coloured as the zephyr.
- جامه‌‌ی صد رنگ از آن خم صفا ** ساده و یک رنگ گشتی چون صبا
- (This) is not the unicolority from which weariness ensues; nay, it is (a case) like (that of) fishes and clear water:
- نیست یک رنگی کز او خیزد ملال ** بل مثال ماهی و آب زلال
- Although there are thousands of colours on dry land, (yet) fishes are at war with dryness.
- گر چه در خشکی هزاران رنگهاست ** ماهیان را با یبوست جنگهاست
- Who is the fish and what is the sea in (my) simile, that the King Almighty and Glorious should resemble them?
- کیست ماهی چیست دریا در مثل ** تا بدان ماند ملک عز و جل
- In (the world of) existence myriads of seas and fishes prostrate themselves in adoration before that Munificence and Bounty. 505
- صد هزاران بحر و ماهی در وجود ** سجده آرد پیش آن اکرام و جود
- How many a rain of largesse hath rained, so that the sea was made thereby to scatter pearls!
- چند باران عطا باران شده ** تا بدان آن بحر در افشان شده