- A dragon was pulling a bear (into its jaws); a valiant man went and succoured it.
- اژدهایی خرس را در میکشید ** شیر مردی رفت و فریادش رسید
- The valiant (holy) men are a help in the world when the wail of the oppressed reaches (them).
- شیر مردانند در عالم مدد ** آن زمان کافغان مظلومان رسد
- From every quarter they hear the cry of the oppressed and run in that direction, like the mercy of God.
- بانگ مظلومان ز هر جا بشنوند ** آن طرف چون رحمت حق میدوند
- Those buttresses for the breaches of the world, those physicians for hidden maladies, 1935
- آن ستونهای خللهای جهان ** آن طبیبان مرضهای نهان
- Are pure love and justice and mercy; even as God, they are flawless (incorruptible) and unbribed.
- محض مهر و داوری و رحمتند ** همچو حق بیعلت و بیرشوتند
- (If you ask one of them), “Why dost thou give him this aid all at once?” he says, “On account of his grief and helplessness.”
- این چه یاری میکنی یک بارگیش ** گوید از بهر غم و بیچارگیش
- Lovingkindness is fallen a prey to the valiant (holy) man, (for) medicine seeks naught in the world but the pain (which it should cure).
- مهربانی شد شکار شیر مرد ** در جهان دارو نجوید غیر درد
- Wherever a pain is, the remedy goes there: wherever a lowland is, the water runs there.
- هر کجا دردی دوا آن جا رود ** هر کجا پستی است آب آن جا دود
- If thou want the water of mercy, go, become lowly, and then drink the wine of mercy and become drunken. 1940
- آب رحمت بایدت رو پست شو ** و آن گهان خور خمر رحمت مست شو
- Mercy upon mercy comes (and rises like a flood) up to the head; do not thou come down to (and dwell upon) a single mercy, O son!
- رحمت اندر رحمت آمد تا به سر ** بر یکی رحمت فرومای ای پسر