- 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
- The Prophet then gave the command (and said), “Rase it and make it a dumping-place for rubbish and ashes.”
- پس نبی فرمود کان را بر کنید ** مطرحهی خاشاک و خاکستر کنید
- The founder of the Mosque was false, like the Mosque (itself): ‘tis not munificence if you sprinkle grain upon a snare.
- صاحب مسجد چو مسجد قلب بود ** دانهها بر دام ریزی نیست جود
- The meat that catches the fish on the hook––such a morsel is neither bounty nor generosity.
- گوشت کاندر شست تو ماهی رباست ** آن چنان لقمه نه بخشش نه سخاست
- The Mosque of the people of Qubá, which was inanimate––he (the Prophet) did not admit to (equality with) it that which was not its equal. 3020
- مسجد اهل قبا کان بد جماد ** آن چه کفو او نبد راهش نداد