- Until copper becomes gold, it does not know itself to be copper: until the heart becomes a king, it does not know itself to be an insolvent.
- تا نشد زر مس نداند من مسم ** تا نشد شه دل نداند مفلسم
- Do service to the elixir, like copper: endure oppression, O heart, from him that holds the heart in fee. 3475
- خدمت اکسیر کن مسوار تو ** جور میکش ای دل از دل دار تو
- Who is it that holds the heart in fee? Know well, it is the lords of the heart who, like day and night, are recoiling from the world.
- کیست دل دار اهل دل نیکو بدان ** که چو روز و شب جهانند از جهان
- Do not find fault with the Servant of God: do not suspect the King of being a thief.
- عیب کم گو بندهی الله را ** متهم کم کن به دزدی شاه را
- The miracles of the dervish who was suspected of theft in a ship.
- کرامات آن درویش که در کشتی متهمش کردند
- A dervish was in a ship: he had made a bolster (for himself) from the goods of saintly fortitude.
- بود درویشی درون کشتیی ** ساخته از رخت مردی پشتیی
- A purse of gold was lost. He was asleep (at the time). They searched all (in the ship) and brought him also to view
- یاوه شد همیان زر او خفته بود ** جمله را جستند و او را هم نمود
- Saying, “Let us search this sleeping mendicant as well.” (So) the owner of the money, (excited) by grief, awakened him. 3480
- کاین فقیر خفته را جوییم هم ** کرد بیدارش ز غم صاحب درم
- “A bag of valuables,” said he, “has been lost in this ship. We have searched the whole company: you cannot escape (suspicion).
- که در این کشتی حرمدان گمشدست ** جمله را جستیم نتوانی تو رست
- Put off your dervish-cloak, strip yourself of it, in order that the people's suspicions may be cleared away from you.”
- دلق بیرون کن برهنه شو ز دلق ** تا ز تو فارغ شود اوهام خلق
- He cried, “O Lord, these vile wretches have made an accusation against Thy slave: bring Thy command to pass!”
- گفت یا رب مر غلامت را خسان ** متهم کردند فرمان در رسان