- He said, “I have gone backwards in (my) course. Alas! would that I had (still) been earth!
- گفت واپس رفتهام من در ذهاب ** حسرتا یا لیتنی کنت تراب
- Would that I had not chosen to travel away from earthiness, (and that) like a clod of earth I had gathered some grain!
- کاش از خاکی سفر نگزیدمی ** همچو خاکی دانهای میچیدمی
- When I travelled, the Way tried me: what was the present I brought (home) from this travelling?”
- چون سفر کردم مرا راه آزمود ** زین سفر کردن ره آوردم چه بود
- ’Tis from all that propensity of his towards earth that he sees before him no profit in the journey. 1810
- ز آن همه میلش سوی خاک است کاو ** در سفر سودی نبیند پیش رو
- His turning his face back is that greed and cupidity (of his); his turning his face to the Way is sincerity and supplication.
- روی واپس کردنش آن حرص و آز ** روی در ره کردنش صدق و نیاز
- Every herb that has a propensity for (moving) upwards is in (the state of) increase and life and growth;
- هر گیا را کش بود میل علا ** در مزید است و حیات و در نما
- When it has turned its head towards the earth, (it is) in (the state of) decrease and dryness and failure and disappointment.
- چون که گردانید سر سوی زمین ** در کمی و خشکی و نقص و غبین
- When the propensity of your spirit is upwards, (you are) in (the state of) increase, and that (lofty) place is the place to which you will return;
- میل روحت چون سوی بالا بود ** در تزاید مرجعت آن جا بود
- But if you are upside down, (with) your head towards the earth, (then) you are one that sinks: God loves not them that sink. 1815
- ور نگون ساری سرت سوی زمین ** آفلی حق لا یحب الآفلین
- How Moses, on whom be peace, asked the high God (to explain) the secret of the predominance of the unjust.
- پرسیدن موسی علیه السلام از حق تعالی سر غلبهی ظالمان
- Moses said, “O Bounteous Disposer, O Thou whom to commemorate for one moment is (worth) a long life,
- گفت موسی ای کریم کارساز ** ای که یک دم ذکر تو عمر دراز