- A hundred worlds like ours He displays to the sight, when He makes your eye seeing by (the light of) Himself.
- صد چو عالم در نظر پیدا کند ** چون که چشمت را به خود بینا کند
- If the world appears to you vast and bottomless, know that to Omnipotence it is not (so much as) an atom.
- گر جهان پیشت بزرگ و بی‌‌بنی است ** پیش قدرت ذره ای می‌‌دان که نیست
- This world, indeed, is the prison of your souls: oh, go in yonder direction, for there lies your open country. 525
- این جهان خود حبس جانهای شماست ** هین روید آن سو که صحرای شماست
- This world is finite, and truly that (other) is infinite: image and form are a barrier to that Reality.
- این جهان محدود آن خود بی حد است ** نقش و صورت پیش ٱن معنی سد است
- The myriads of Pharaoh's lances were shattered by (the hand of) Moses (armed) with a single staff.
- صد هزاران نیزه‌‌ی فرعون را ** در شکست از موسیی با یک عصا
- Myriads were the therapeutic arts of Galen: before Jesus and his (life-giving) breath they were a laughing-stock.
- صد هزاران طب جالینوس بود ** پیش عیسی و دمش افسوس بود
- Myriads were the books of (pre-Islamic) poems: at the word of an illiterate (prophet) they were (put to) shame.
- صد هزاران دفتر اشعار بود ** پیش حرف امیی آن عار بود
- (Confronted) with such an all-conquering Lord, how should any one not die (to self), unless he be a vile wretch? 530
- با چنین غالب خداوندی کسی ** چون نمیرد گر نباشد او خسی
- Many a mind (strong and firm) as a mountain did He uproot; the cunning bird He hung up by its two feet.
- بس دل چون کوه را انگیخت او ** مرغ زیرک با دو پا آویخت او
- To sharpen the intelligence and wits is not the (right) way: none but the broken (in spirit) wins the favour of the King.
- فهم و خاطر تیز کردن نیست راه ** جز شکسته می‌‌نگیرد فضل شاه