- The dove became secure from the talons of the hawk, the sheep took no precaution against the wolf.
- شد کبوتر ایمن از چنگال باز ** گوسفند از گرگ ناورد احتراز
- He (Solomon) became an arbitrator between enemies: he became a (means of establishing) oneness between the creatures that fly with wings.
- او میانجی شد میان دشمنان ** اتحادی شد میان پر زنان
- Thou art running after grain, like an ant. Hark! seek for Solomon! Why art thou still astray?
- تو چو موری بهر دانه میدوی ** هین سلیمان جو چه میباشی غوی
- To the seeker of grain his grain becomes a snare, but the seeker of Solomon may have both (Solomon and the grain). 3705
- دانه جو را دانهاش دامی شود ** و آن سلیمان جوی را هر دو بود
- In these latter days the soul-birds have no security from each other for a moment;
- مرغ جانها را در این آخر زمان ** نیستشان از همدگر یک دم امان
- (Yet) even in our epoch there is a Solomon who would give (us) peace and not suffer our injustice to continue.
- هم سلیمان هست اندر دور ما ** کاو دهد صلح و نماند جور ما
- Call to mind (the text), There is no people down to (the words) but in the past a warner dwelt among them.
- قول إن من أمة را یاد گیر ** تا به إلا و خلا فیها نذیر
- God said that verily there has never been a people devoid of a vicar of God and a man of spiritual power;
- گفت خود خالی نبوده ست امتی ** از خلیفهی حق و صاحب همتی
- And he makes the soul-birds so unanimous that, in respect of sincerity, he purges them of (all) guile and rancour. 3710
- مرغ جانها را چنان یکدل کند ** کز صفاشان بیغش و بیغل کند
- They become (as) kind as a mother: he (Mohammed) said of the Moslems, “(They are as) one soul.”
- مشفقان گردند همچون والده ** مسلمون را گفت نفس واحده