- Thy sincerity led thee to seek; my seeking led me to a feeling of sincerity.
- صدق تو آورد در جستن ترا ** جستنم آورد در صدقی مرا
- I was sowing the seed of fortune in the earth, (though) I fancied it was labour without wages and hire.
- تخم دولت در زمین میکاشتم ** سخره و بیگار میپنداشتم
- ’Twas not labour without hire; ’twas an excellent earning: (for) every grain that I sowed, a hundred grew.
- آن نبد بیگار کسبی بود چست ** هر یکی دانه که کشتم صد برست
- The thief went underhand (by stealth) to a certain house: when he entered, he saw that it was his own house.” 3010
- دزد سوی خانهای شد زیر دست ** چون در آمد دید کان خانهی خود است
- Be hot, O cold one, that heat may come: put up with roughness, that ease may come.
- گرم باش ای سرد تا گرمی رسد ** با درشتی ساز تا نرمی رسد
- That (subject of my discourse) is not two camels; it is a single camel. Verbal expression is confined, the meaning (to be expressed) is very full.
- آن دو اشتر نیست آن یک اشتر است ** تنگ آمد لفظ معنی بس پر است
- The expression always fails to reach the meaning; hence the Prophet said, “(Whoso knows God), his tongue falters.”
- لفظ در معنی همیشه نارسان ** ز آن پیمبر گفت قد کل لسان
- Speech is (like) an astrolabe in (its) reckoning: how much does it know of the sky and the sun?—
- نطق اصطرلاب باشد در حساب ** چه قدر داند ز چرخ و آفتاب
- Especially, of that Sky whereof this heaven is (no more than) a blade of straw; (that Sky) of whose Sun the (terrestrial) sun is (but) a mote? 3015
- خاصه چرخی کاین فلک زو پرهای است ** آفتاب از آفتابش ذرهای است
- Showing that there is in every soul the mischief of the Mosque of Opposition.
- بیان آن که در هر نفسی فتنهی مسجد ضرار است
- When it appeared that that was not a mosque, (but) was a house of intrigue and a trap laid by the Jews,
- چون پدید آمد که آن مسجد نبود ** خانهی حیلت بد و دام جهود